Yeah, that is something to take into account, but I have to drive by about a 1/4 mile of that white vinyl fence every day to get to work (new subdivision), and I just don't find it to have any aesthetic value whatsoever (much less practical). It's shiny and it's white and it lasts forever, but if I look to the other side of the road I'll find a set of crooked posts held together with rusting horse fence and overgrown weeds and wild flowers all through it. It just feels a bit more natural. Get me, calling a fence natural. Ladies and gentlemen, I've heard it all. :)
People throw away what they could have by insisting on perfection, which they cannot have, and looking for it where they will never find it. - Edith Schaeffer