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Sanity <sanerthanyou@gmail.com> wrote
> Pat <groups@artisticphotography.us> wrote
>> Scott in SoCal <scottenazt...@yahoo.com> wrote
>>> Sanity <sanerthan...@gmail.com> wrote

>>>> That's bullsh-t. It's not that bad. Have you ever lived in an HOA?

>>> It's pretty obvious to me that 99% of the people who bitch about HOAs
>>> have never actually lived in a home that was subject to HOA rules.
>>> These people hear things like you can't paint your house just any old
>>> color and they wig out. The reality is the colors most people like
>>> are on the approved list anyway, so you really lose nothing, yet they
>>> chafe at the mere thought that there are restrictions of any kind.

>> To say you really lose nothing is a bit of an overstatement.  It's like saying that losing your right to bear arms 
>> really isn't losing anything.  It's like saying losing your right free association really isn't losing anything. 
>> It's like saying losing your right to a speedy trial really isn't losing anything.  Yes.  It's losing stuff.  And 
>> it's done in the name of comformity and housing values -- not the nobelist of causes.

> The beauty of the whole system is that no one twists your arm to move into an HOA.

Wrong when they are close to universal in some areas.

> Buy your house where you want and live where you want.

Pity about when there are no suitable houses where you want one that isnt in a HOA.

> The US Constitution gives you the right to that

Nope, its completely silent on HOAs.

> and also gives the right to people to live in HOA's.

Nope, its completely silent on HOAs.

> Isn't it a marvelous country?

Nope, not when it allows jackbooted thugs to get any say what so ever on the detail of your house.

You can run the same mindlessly silly line about blacks etc in your neighbourhood too.

The constitution is also silent on that particular question.