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Just to bring this into sharper focus: 10 minutes a day, twice a day, 5 times a week for 50 weeks a year amounts to 5000 minutes per year, or just a little over

Just to bring this into sharper focus: 10 minutes a day, twice a day, 5 times a week for 50 weeks a year amounts to 5000 minutes per year, or just a little over 83 hours. Personally, I would find that acceptable just to not have to live in a place where people tell me what signs I can place in my lawn or what color I can paint my front door, but opinions can and do vary from person to person. Oh, and BTW, the word "criteria" is plural. Its singular form is "criterion." Not that it takes away from your point, but consider it a tiny piece of friendly advice.

JoshTriplett 6y ago
> Just to bring this into sharper focus: 10 minutes a day, twice a day, 5 times a week for 50 weeks a year amounts to 5000 minutes per year, or just a little over 83 hours. Or two full-time work-weeks worth of extra time, just spent commuting, every year. Definitely not worth it to me; in practice, the primary interaction I have with my HOA is the continued requirement to pay them. (All else being equal, I'd much rather not have one, but I wanted a walkable commute more.) > Oh, and BTW, the word "criteria" is plural. Its singular form is "criterion." Not anymore: https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/criterion#usage-1 https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/criterion#usage-1 . "The plural criteria has been used as a singular for over half a century." Much like "data" and "datum", it's no longer an observed distinction; "this data" and "this criteria" are entirely correct. But in any case, I was talking about both HOAs and distance, so a more elaborate form would have been "that combination of criteria". One could also argue that an HOA is a whole collection of related problems in and of itself.
- JoeAltmaier 6y ago
  Its not like the commute is useless time. I did it for years, and being alone with my thoughts (or the radio or an audiobook) was just another part of my life. Still I prefer not doing it, agreed. Anyway, false dichotomy? Not all housing choices within range are burdened with an association?
  - JoshTriplett 6y ago
    > Anyway, false dichotomy? Not all housing choices within range are burdened with an association? That depends on where you are; in some cities, the vast majority of housing developments have an HOA.

JoshTriplett 6y ago

> Just to bring this into sharper focus: 10 minutes a day, twice a day, 5 times a week for 50 weeks a year amounts to 5000 minutes per year, or just a little over 83 hours. Or two full-time work-weeks worth of extra time, just spent commuting, every year. Definitely not worth it to me; in practice, the primary interaction I have with my HOA is the continued requirement to pay them. (All else being equal, I'd much rather not have one, but I wanted a walkable commute more.) > Oh, and BTW, the word "criteria" is plural. Its singular form is "criterion." Not anymore: https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/criterion#usage-1 https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/criterion#usage-1 . "The plural criteria has been used as a singular for over half a century." Much like "data" and "datum", it's no longer an observed distinction; "this data" and "this criteria" are entirely correct. But in any case, I was talking about both HOAs and distance, so a more elaborate form would have been "that combination of criteria". One could also argue that an HOA is a whole collection of related problems in and of itself.

JoeAltmaier 6y ago
Its not like the commute is useless time. I did it for years, and being alone with my thoughts (or the radio or an audiobook) was just another part of my life. Still I prefer not doing it, agreed. Anyway, false dichotomy? Not all housing choices within range are burdened with an association?
- JoshTriplett 6y ago
  > Anyway, false dichotomy? Not all housing choices within range are burdened with an association? That depends on where you are; in some cities, the vast majority of housing developments have an HOA.