How is "urban" defined? We live in the suburbs, and everyone has a riding mower (except us).

Right. And if you go back to the idea of luxury goods, and relative position in economic circumstance.... but thanks for playing :P

I use a landscaping company to deal with my yard. It is just too big for me to take care of.

But I do keep in touch with the common person, and most of my close friends are unrepentant losers.

Does that count?

If you find you just do not have the time. A riding mower becomes pretty much a necessity. I think back to when we first built the house we are in. I did cut the grass somehow with a gas push mower for the first year.

Hard to believe this now. It takes around an hour with a lawn tractor. Every spring I am always happy the two lawn tractors fire up with out issues so far. Both the house and cottage are on acre lots. The one we purchased new thirty five years ago or so still has the original tires and they are still decent. Only has required a head gasket and belts so far. Plus batteries. I keep thinking it's time is limited but it still runs about the same as new. .

Lots of good lightly used lawn tractors come up if you are not looking for one. I am not very impressed with some of the brand new ones now. They seem to have been cheapened to some extent. One wonders in the past how long it would have taken with a push reel mower. That is about all they had at one time. Of course as I type this I can almost hear the grass growing. There has been a good combination of evening rainfall and sunny days for the last while.

Hm?
Yeah, I can definitely understand having a rider in that instance. We have only a half-acre, and about half of that is taken up by flower and vegetable gardens, so we only have to mow ~1/4 acre in the end.

Actually, now that I think of it, I can think of other neighbors who have pushmowers... probably about 30% of the street uses them.