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Originally Posted by SABRMnLgs
Hey Bogie,
Read the posts and you see what I mean .............. I bother absolutely no one. But somebody has always got that darn covenant comic book out telling you what you can and cannot do. You gotta have this, you can't have that. Well you can have that, but only over there. You can't have it here.
While this is supposed to be a "Friendly place" it is also one of the most sterile environments I have ever experienced. There is NO personality allowed
except for what the yard nazis and covenant freaks allow. And snitches abound, believe me. Some have nothing better to do with their time.
And now watch them come out in defense of their "holy book". You cannot write anything you feel is an injustice or derogatory without getting someone elses dander up.
That being said, there are a number of A-1 class people who live here. And with any large group there are going to be good and bad. Intelligent and ignorant. On my very few and far between forays into the community you can strike up some great conversations even in the grocery line. Yet other times you run into someone who can't pour water out of a boot. These types you see at the CDD meetings.
Well, I've belabored the point long enough. But I suggest you look into Orange Blossom or Silver Lake. At least there you some some say in what you can have and do.
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I agree with your point completely and I recently has a personal experience with the "lawn nazi's" that got my dander up until my wife and I discussed it. Here's what happened: We live in Duval. We spent a lot of $$$ on the typical landscape upgrades. My wife's cousin lives in Glenbrook and is a talented artist and woodcarver and specializes in exotic birds, herons, cranes etc. As a housewarming gift, he gave us a beautiful white heron that, from 10 feet away looks so real we had neighbors stopping by to see why this heron was always in our yard. We had it discretely placed in the landscaping along the corner of the house. For some reason, 7 months later we start getting notices from the CDD attached to our front door indicating we are in "violation".... I threw the first few in the trash and then the notices started getting harsher... that's when my wife and I had the discussion which essentially ended up with, "we knew from the start there were very strict restrictions and that we were moving into a Stepford Wives kind of environment when we decided to move here, blah, blah,blah" so I took the damn bird down. Now I'm waiting to see what they do about the home down the street that has a giant birdbath in the front yard with a cherub spewing water" Funny thing is I never paid it no attention.... now I wonder if that'll have to go too. Life'a a trade off.... I used to live on a mountainside deep in the woods.... no zoning.... some of the properties close by were pretty scary. Nobody cared if I had a bird or a 500lb gorilla in my front yard. You either suck it up and become a Stepford or head back to the mountainside.