Kill your lawn.
I ignored mine for over a decade and it quietly turned itself from grass into a naturally low-growing ground cover that looks like clover. It never needs watering and the only mowing needed is to chop down the stray weed here and there. It’s quite nice.
Edit: I should add that the plant that took over is native to the area.
And the beauty of adult peer pressure is that I can completely ignore it without a second thought, and then go back to browsing Lemmy.
As a dad theres a reason for this.
Hobbies take time and money, maintaining a house takes time and money. You never have enough time OR money. So you make the thing you have to do anyway your hobby.
And then I can go over there and say “hey nice job, you can do mine next” and walk away.
I also don’t like neighbors. People in general, really.