Well we have curbs and flower beds that must be maintained and since I live on a corner I have a LOT of sidewalk and curbing to maintain.....and a fence line that must be trimmed too. While I like not having a neighbor on one side, the maintenance is getting old.
I hated that. After my FIL passed and we were rebuilding here, I used to do her home, until she was here and it was sold. They had enormous curb space across the front and driveway side.
Winters were even better, becaise the sidewalk on the side street had huge trees that made the sidewalk distorted, so the snowblower was a PITA.
And they had a mailbox on that corner, so the municipal guys would do a single shovel width feom the street, so by the time I got to cleaning the snow, 3 dozen people had packed it down
The more I read on the subject of lawns, I am happier to live where a yard is just a yard of native grass and stuff, watered by nature, or hardly at all because it is drought tolerant, cut now and then, love the dandelions and all the other native plants-pretty colors and attractive to hummingbirds, butterflies and bees. The deer browse the stuff outside the fence, so it never has to be cut.
Living away from civilization has a few advantages.