JD Vance gives me the same uneasy feeling as the folks across the road

A couple bought a few acres across the road from us. In the midst of working farms, barns, sheds, and livestock, their "yard" looks like a golf course and their suburban tract house sticks out like a sore thumb. Its really neat and tidy, but the cookie-cutter, suburban aesthetic really grates on people's nerves.

It feels kind of threatening, as though these new folks are gonna go full blown suburban any minute, and start demanding the county impose HOA codes, or install some architectural design committee to get us to "clean-up" our farms. Next thing ya know, we'd be forced to paint our barns, the colour someone on some design and standards committee decided was pretty. Once we were all painted, they'd go after our landscaping and make us mow our grazing land the way they mowed theirs.

Looking at that place is so disorienting, my son-in-law is planting trees to block the view from our property.