Growing up my family and I would look at new developments on the edge of town and lament that all the cookie-cutter houses looked the same. I did a self-build

Growing up my family and I would look at new developments on the edge of town and lament that all the cookie-cutter houses looked the same. I did a self-build on a house in 2021 and the county planners insisted I had to make the house blend in with the existing ones. There was no room for creativity. For an age we're we've made progress in personal freedoms we seem pretty hell-bent on forcing conformity.