Chain links are the worst kinds of fences. Ugly and seemingly are used to pen-in loud barking dogs who start barking two blocks away and keep barking till you’re another two blocks up the street.
Often the ground is mostly bare with some weeds along the fence.
Give me cliche picket fences any day. Even stone fences.
You just gave us a cliche about chain links, and you want a cliche in return? Just keep your cliche and call it a day.
Yes, I'm familiar with the scene you describe, but that is a small fraction of the places I have seen with chain link fences. In fact, regarding the barking dog, in my experience it is the solid wood fences with dogs inside that will not shut up because they can only hear but not see what might possibly be intruding. This is why it is common to cut access holes for the dogs to see out to realize there's nothing to bark at. I've seen versions from slits cut into the boards all the way to portal domes around the fence line.
Whether run-down areas of cities or aging suburban areas, cyclone/chainlink fences were a cheap alternative during the 50s and 60s boom period.
Installing cyclone/chainlink today looks cheap and is cheap and gnarly looking. It's like people who build a "deck" and use the cheapest materials --it looks awful. Chainlinks is for used car backlots and train depots, not yards.
Pickets, vertical redwood, post and rail, even welded wire look way better than chainlink. I'll take a waddle fence too while we're at it. Chainlink is cheap and looks cheap. Worst is people do not maintain them after installation.
