Dusterbd13 wrote:
In reply to WilD:
Per your edit: i think its different kinds of asshattery. The city version pisses me off, but i grew up and have spent most my life rural, so for me thats just the way people are. Its definitely hard for me to explain the "country " point of view to somebody with the city point of view. Ill equate it to mac vs pc: they both work for the people they work for. But converting over is bewildering, frustrating, and chock full of things that the other gut just takes for granted as normal.
I think you nailed it, it's all a matter of what you're used to and most comfortable with. I think a lot of what the difference comes down to is a collectivist vs individualist mentality.
Duke wrote:
In reply to mad_machine:
It's not a southern or western thing, it's a developed-since-the-'90s thing. It just so happens that many areas in the midatlantic region were already built up before HOAs really got popular.
Delaware has experienced rapid suburban development of our previously rural areas, and many if not most of those new subdivisions have HOAs.
I think also the mid-atlantic/north east areas are more likely to how towns/counties with ordinances built in that you would typically have an HOA control here in the south.
When I grew up outside of DC, we did not have an HOA. However, Fairfax county, and towns within it, all have ordinances like a typical HOA. Don't collect trash in your yard, keep it mowed, your house can't be a E36 M3-pile, etc.
Here in the south, that seems to be perfectly acceptable in areas outside city limits. So more expensive neighborhoods adopt HOAs to keep the property value of those involved protected.
ProDarwin wrote:
Duke wrote:
In reply to mad_machine:
It's not a southern or western thing, it's a developed-since-the-'90s thing. It just so happens that many areas in the midatlantic region were already built up before HOAs really got popular.
Delaware has experienced rapid suburban development of our previously rural areas, and many if not most of those new subdivisions have HOAs.
I think also the mid-atlantic/north east areas are more likely to how towns/counties with ordinances built in that you would typically have an HOA control here in the south.
When I grew up outside of DC, we did not have an HOA. However, Fairfax county, and towns within it, all have ordinances like a typical HOA. Don't collect trash in your yard, keep it mowed, your house can't be a E36 M3-pile, etc.
Here in the south, that seems to be perfectly acceptable in areas outside city limits. So more expensive neighborhoods adopt HOAs to keep the property value of those involved protected.
this is true. At least with them being township/town/city ordinances, they cannot be changed without a vote and on a whim. They also cannot be used to impose stepford like uniformity
