Suburb vs Rural: Let's Compare and Contrast

HOAs are minnie governments with all the cussedness of human nature on display. Unfortunately, they are much easier to take control of than a city, county, or state government. Most homeowners are too busy living their lives to spend the time and effort that moral busybodies seem to have huge reserves of. To tell others how to live is their dream, their reason for living. And they do it all with the assurance that it is for your own good to knuckle under to what they want.

Think twice before buying where there is a HOA. They can make your life downright unpleasant.

Posted by Jimmy J. at July 7, 2016 8:54 PM

Obviously people want HOAs. That is their choice to spend their money on those properties mediated by such.

If you don't, don't buy property controlled by one or sell. You have freedom too. If most of your neighbors, or just especially powerful ones, oppose your values keep your powder dry until you are strong enough to fight with gravitas or give the battle up temporarily. Like Islam teaches conduct of warfare.

Or, if that rare individual with Sarah Palin's ability wants to, they can bring the whole system down with transparency.

My God, what grand opportunities before you to not just bitch and moan but actually Stand Athwart statist anti-liberty official cowards commanding only that which they didn't earn and would never fight to keep if challenged with competence.

Oh wait: you never read The Prince.

Machiavelli was like over a hundred years ago, so I understand he ain't got nothing to teach you. Heck, I myself quit after 73 pages.

Easy come, easy go.

Posted by notquiteunBuckley at July 8, 2016 12:47 AM

At least a rural home aint downtown Dallas. If we had an FBI, they could investigate the racist hate group involved in the Dallas shootings. Wait...

All manner of evil can come from this. Makes it seem planned, doesn't it?

Posted by Casey Klahn at July 8, 2016 8:26 AM

Several years ago a neighbor who had moved to the country to retire, partly to be near family was telling me that he was not happy about the neighbors, who lived over a quarter mile away shooting fireworks. (On the Fourth of July no less.) It was upsetting his goats and his dogs. I grew up out here, my family has been here well over 100 years and I don't really car for ANYBODY moving out here from town and building a house, but it's someone else's property so it is their business. I told him the reason most people move to the country is so they can do what they want without interference (like raising goats) but he didn't seem to think this freedom should pertain to his neighbors, just to him.

Posted by Farmer Don at July 9, 2016 5:46 PM