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> And people enter them willingly? Can someone explain why? For some, the house they want happens to be in an HOA neighborhood, so they oblige. For others, the

> And people enter them willingly? Can someone explain why? For some, the house they want happens to be in an HOA neighborhood, so they oblige. For others, they like the "order" that the HOA demands of the homeowners that live in that zone - grass and roofs and paints are all "approved" which definitely provides some semblance of consistency. In my experience, HOAs are exactly like this article describes. People that like power for power's sake becoming anal about the people they have control over, under the guise of "consistency" and "order".

FPGAhacker 5y ago
This is a truism that extends to any governing body. But there are people that having lived under the tyranny of power mongering HOAs, work to keep the rules to a minimum.
fatbird 5y ago
People that like power for power's sake becoming anal about the people they have control over, under the guise of "consistency" and "order" It's easy to say this if you've never been on one, where you see how unbelievably petty and stupid people can be about sliding their own exceptions by, or just trying to get away with not obeying the rules until someone demands they do, or you have to mediate a real dispute between neighbours that's sort-of-but-not-really covered by the rules. Nothing has corroded my belief that humanity is capable of governing itself in a sane, common sense manner, as much as serving on Strata (Canadian version of an HOA for a condo building) for several years.
- void_mint 5y ago
  > Nothing has corroded my belief that humanity is capable of governing itself in a sane, common sense manner, as much as serving on Strata (Canadian version of an HOA for a condo building) for several years. People cannot govern without injecting extreme bias. With regard to something like home ownership, I'd like my home to be subject to only my own biases. Power corrupts absolutely, even at the smallest scale.

FPGAhacker 5y ago

This is a truism that extends to any governing body. But there are people that having lived under the tyranny of power mongering HOAs, work to keep the rules to a minimum.

fatbird 5y ago

People that like power for power's sake becoming anal about the people they have control over, under the guise of "consistency" and "order" It's easy to say this if you've never been on one, where you see how unbelievably petty and stupid people can be about sliding their own exceptions by, or just trying to get away with not obeying the rules until someone demands they do, or you have to mediate a real dispute between neighbours that's sort-of-but-not-really covered by the rules. Nothing has corroded my belief that humanity is capable of governing itself in a sane, common sense manner, as much as serving on Strata (Canadian version of an HOA for a condo building) for several years.

void_mint 5y ago
> Nothing has corroded my belief that humanity is capable of governing itself in a sane, common sense manner, as much as serving on Strata (Canadian version of an HOA for a condo building) for several years. People cannot govern without injecting extreme bias. With regard to something like home ownership, I'd like my home to be subject to only my own biases. Power corrupts absolutely, even at the smallest scale.