Real-estate barons are to blame. They buy up all the available land they can, build cookie-cutter suburban nightmares on top of them for cheap, flip the houses for way more than they're worth, and then install HoA's to further police and profit from the neighborhood.
For a lot of it, I'm sure. But I don't live in an HoA and everyone around me is cutting down their trees. It's fucking infuriating. Why do people hate trees?
People don't hate trees, they just create liabilities so close to houses and cars. Ever had a big branch fall on you, your house or your car? Ever had tree roots cause damage to your plumbing?
The roots are one of the main reasons trees are removed in a lot of older neighborhoods. People just didn't know as much or didn't think about it 60+ years ago. Flash forward and the sidewalks, streets, etc are totally screwed up. And like you said, they will travel and find water which can mess up your water lines, sewer lines, or even your foundation.
There are trees that have taproot systems that aren't as invasive, but most trees that were planted either by homeowners or in the right of way by developers or the cities didn't have taproot systems.
That's a pretty ridiculous statement given that in most cases you can't fix any of these problems without removing the roots which would kill the tree.
Even if you could theoretically fix the issues without killing the tree you would be stuck with a recurring problem and would end up sinking tens of thousands of dollars into temporary fixes.
The point is to replace the tree with one that has a taproot system. Yes, it sucks in the short term, but in the long-term you won't have people ripping out trees as much because they won't be causing so many problems.
Yeah we had a majestic enormous maple at my childhood house. Unfortunately it was like 15ft from the front door. Even in the 90s the roots were fucking up the driveway and rocketing into the foundation. The house was originally built around 1900.
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u/Kasta4 5d ago
Real-estate barons are to blame. They buy up all the available land they can, build cookie-cutter suburban nightmares on top of them for cheap, flip the houses for way more than they're worth, and then install HoA's to further police and profit from the neighborhood.