Off to the States tomorrow for Easter.

https://lemmy.world/post/45059938

Imagine flying to other continents and discovering they divide land by natural geographic formations. Americans could never.

natural geographic formations

Do you mean drunk squiggly lines by a British man?

True, but I was referring to copses of trees, creeks, hillsides, slabs of boulder, underground water. Things that are a pain in the ass to farm around so often affect the division of property lines and then the selling rates of land.
That happens in parts of the US that actually have those things, just not in the super flat bits that don’t have anything interesting in them to use as a boundary to begin with. Kinda hard to break things up by rivers or ridges or trees when there aren’t any there naturally. But near me, that stuff is super common as boundaries for fields for exactly the same reason.
Fun fact: the trees used to mark those boundaries are called witness trees, and since they were never chopped down they are the only remaining old growth trees in a lot of areas.