When we built our house 26 years ago my DH wanted a large yard. We were lucky to find a new area that was selling one and a half home lots for each house. My back yard has five large live oak trees so I only have about a fourth of it with enough sunlight for my flower beds. It is a burden now that we have to hire a yard man to take care of it for us. We do like the idea of not having the neighbor houses right up to close to ours.