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Probably a situation with stuck up neighbors most of the time. If you’ve heard of the homeowners association problem in the USA, this could be the cause. Having
by ok_dad 2y ago
Probably a situation with stuck up neighbors most of the time. If you’ve heard of the homeowners association problem in the USA, this could be the cause. Having rotting fruit is fine for the soil and everything, but the stick up the butt neighbors or HOA probably would complain or ban the practice. US Americans are pretty separated from nature in their big suburbs.
- hotspot_one 2y agohornets
- __MatrixMan__ 2y agoI don't get it. If I wanted somebody to tell me what choices to make with how I lived, I'd have just continued living with my parents.
- reaperman 2y agoIndeed. But it is difficult to find a house near work that is not already part of an HOA.
- ethbr1 2y agoIt depends on the state. Some seem to love them (coughFloridacough) and others dislike them. Afaik, most of them are vestigial instruments left over from master planned development financing, that gave the developers X years of voting control in order to recoup some part of their investment.
- kjkjadksj 2y agoEasy just live in a neighborhood built before 1970. Odds are if you work in a city these are available in spades in a reasonable distance to work. Nicer homes and neighborhoods than the newer plastic siding stuff thats come since too.
- koziserek 2y agomaybe we need a map
- zo1 2y agoHOA's can actually work really well, they just seemed to have taken a horrible turn somewhere in the USA. "HOA"s in South Africa are called "Sectional Titles", and they're pretty reasonable. They allow for (if you ask me) more efficient use of common resources (garden services, security, etc). Do they have politics, drama and the occasional Karen? Of course, but every grouping of individuals has that as it's just human nature.
- __MatrixMan__ 2y agoI'd be ok with something like that, but I think I'd need neighbors who were interested in having common resources in the first place. Where we've got it wrong is that only thing we have in common is a shared interest in how the market perceives us, and since markets are batshit crazy, we end up doing crazy things like maintaining a lawn in a drought just for the aesthetics of it. If there were actually something we had in common, like I dunno a lathe or something, there would be something with practical considerations around which to anchor HOA policy. (bias note: I don't live in an HOA, but my friends seem to hate it an I'm offended by the lack of character/sense in the HOA-governed neighborhoods that surround mine.)
- ClumsyPilot 2y ago> If you’ve heard of the homeowners association problem in the USA From what I heard, their level of tyranny would give most dictators a worthy challenge.