With fuckcars call it speculatory on my end or just armchair psychiatry, but does it seem like their property doesn't really mean anything to them, never mind other people's property. As previous posts have shown they don't seem to mind when their stuff gets stolen. If they get evicted they'll just find a new place to overcharge them on rent. If they burn a bridge with family because they have the wrong beliefs, they'll find a surrogate family. Everything is expendable, everything is replaceable in their world.
I wouldn't say it's like that. They have possessions they value and would hate to lose and the concept of place doesn't exist ("rootless cosmopolitan", etc.), but it's a softer version of MovieBob's "no bad tactics, just bad targets". (We'll exclude the radical antifa types as that will dilute our comparison). Things that happen are either a problem depending on what the target is. Train hits car? Comedy; they probably deserved it. Car hits cyclist? "Traffic violence", the cyclist is was in the right no matter the circumstances. Neighborhood torn down for freeway? A tragedy. Neighborhood torn down for a new failtrain? Progress, tough shit.
Most of this isn't even being evil or psychopathic; if they even have the mental awareness to realize the difference it's just being self-centered, and being self-centered is one of the defining characteristics of what makes a bugman a bugman and why they're unpleasant people to be around.
Those aren't HOAs, those are neighborhood deeds. Some of them have more strange rules than others, my neighborhood is extremely anti-HOA but there are still rules and regulations, like how many livestock animals you can have on your lot (basically you can have x many "animal units" per acre, a horse or cow is one animal unit, sheep/goats are half, chickens are one-fifth).
Deeds are the restrictions and rules when you go into a subdivision, established by the first generation of neighbors with a time limit (after 30 years or whatever, it could expire). This is how some of the Houston neighborhoods changed—Greenway Plaza, a collection of office towers, a hotel, and other buildings linked with an underground shopping concourse (it sounds impressive, but the shopping concourse was never a big draw and was mostly a few restaurants and related businesses doing lunch-hour business)—was built when buying out a neighborhood, with the "hook" being that the deed restrictions were about to expire, they likely wouldn't be able to renew it (and commercial businesses could sprout up, as it was an Inner Loop-area subdivision with rising land values); so the neighbors took the generous buyout option.
HOAs are legal entities with fees, a board, and ownership in common areas (like a clubhouse and/or swimming pool).
Incidentally, the clubhouse and pool (some big apartment complexes have basically the same thing) provide a community anchor, which urbanists claim doesn't exist.
yeah the faggy ones are the ones that cost $250-500 a month or more. It gets nuts out there!
There'd better be nightly complementary drinks and hors d'oeuvres for that price.
Mine is pretty much minimal maintenance like a couple trash cans near some trails leading out of the area. Rules are don't cut down trees without permission, ask before building anything substantial and all cars visible from the street must be registered. In return I pay them $100/year. I think it's a fair deal. I suspect it was originally formed in the 1950s because the density required a communal water system as the lots are too small for each to have a well and septic system and it's not in a 'city' where they'd have that already.
Ideally you shouldn't
have to have HOAs, if someone has to play tard wrangler to make sure that your neighbor's yard isn't a trash heap you have straight-up shitty neighbors.
But we're getting off track...not every single-family neighborhood has HOAs, and the ones you hear horror stories about are even fewer in number. In comparison, pretty much
every established apartment building (except for the most disgusting, run-down duplexes/4-plexes) has a litany of rules, regulations, and fees.
