Let me explain exactly why every new subdivision in America looks like the top photo, because the math is wild.
A mature tree increases a home's value by 7 to 19 percent. On a $400,000 house, that's $28,000 to $76,000. A single shade tree produces the cooling equivalent of ten room-size air conditioners running 20 hours a day. One tree on the west side of a house cuts energy bills by 12 percent within 15 years. The bottom photo is worth more, costs less to live in, and sells faster. This has been documented by the University of Washington, Clemson, Michigan State, and the USDA. The data is not in dispute.
Removing those trees saves the builder roughly $5,000 per lot. Concrete trucks need twice the dripline radius of every standing tree. Utility trenches need flat ground. A bulldozer flattens 200 lots in an afternoon. Preserving trees adds weeks and thousands per home.
So the developer pockets $5,000 in savings and the buyer eats $50,000 in lost value for the next two decades. The person making the decision and the person paying for it have never been in the same room.
The Woodlands, Texas is the proof of what happens when they are. George Mitchell bought 28,000 acres of Houston timberland in 1974 and preserved 28% as permanent green space. He forced McDonald's to build behind the tree canopy. That McDonald's became one of the highest-volume locations in Texas. The first office building, designed to reflect the surrounding forest so you couldn't see it from the street, leased completely.
The Woodlands median home price today: $615,000. Katy, a comparable Houston suburb that clear-cut: $375,000. Named #1 community to live in America two years running.
Fifty years of data. The trees are worth more than removing them saves. Developers clear-cut anyway because they sell the house once and leave. You live in it for 30 years.
So, if you're White you reside on stolen land 400 years later.
If your Somilian, Afghani, Pakistani, Haitian, or Middle Eastern you become “American” the day you arrive.
Make it make sense.
Imagine how great America would be if the money taken out of your paycheck actually went back into your life, your family, your community, your future, instead of being wasted on illegal aliens, foreign countries, and Democrat fraud.
The average Social Security recipient gets $1200/mo after working 50+ years.
The average illegal “refugee” gets $3874/month after being in America for 50 minutes.
And that should INFURIATE everyone.
“The American people did not give President Trump a mandate. It was the closest election in history.”
Trump: 2,633 counties
Harris: 427 counties
At some point, people have got to wake the hell up.
It is not lost on me that those celebrating Charlie Kirk’s death because he was supposedly “transphobic and homophobic” (not true) are the same people who support Hamas and Palestinians who are actually homophobic and transphobic. Make it make sense.