why are HOAs becoming more popular as time goes on?
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People can be self-centered jerks who place a higher importance on themselves than they do on the community as a whole. A subset of these people do things that they enjoy, but everyone around them doesn’t like. HOAs give everyone the same rules and should make sure they all follow those rules. Each individual person may enjoy their home less than if they could do whatever they wanted, but more than they would if their neighbors could do whatever they wanted.
HOAs formalize a social compact that society used to have and has kinda abandoned. In rural areas where “don’t be a dickbag” is still the social norm, you don’t see a lot of HOAs. In neighborhoods where there is a large concentration of dickbaggery, there also don’t tend to be HOAs.
The people who tend to hate on HOAs the most are the people who don’t actually give a shit about being in a neighborhood. They want to throw loud parties, skip mowing the lawn, park four broken-down cars on the street. They live in a house, not a community.
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