I agree with that - but only in relation to living in an urban/town area. If we lived in town and had to pay for our water, we probably wouldn't have as much grass as we do. But where we live now we have a massive yard and most of it is grass, but then we also have the luxury of having plenty of space to have a vege garden and orchard as big as we want too. We also have a dam bigger than an olympic sized pool chock full of water to water it with as well. so it costs us nothing but our time to maintain because we don't spray or fertilise it either.