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Originally Posted by frose
This is why this place is awful. The “people “ are really out for themselves and do not have an understanding of what is fair. Too old to change
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"what is fair" is that people who choose to move into a planned community learn what the rules are before closing. They don't wait to be presented with the information. They ASK. In advance.
I spent a year asking, and didn't understand the answers. I didn't get why anyone would care about pink flamingos. I also didn't understand why, once it was explained about pink flamingos, why the rules were only enforced if residents tattled on each other.
In fact, I -still- don't get that. I hate that part of the system. The only way you can get someone to comply with the rules is if you or a neighbor turn against the other neighbor and submit a complaint officially. That doesn't make for friendly neighbors. It pits them against each other and absolves the ARC and Deed Compliance folks from responsibility.
That said, I knew what this place was about when I moved in. That was our choice - to learn the rules, and then decide which rules we could live with and which ones were deal-breakers.
It was another reason why we live in the area we do. We still have restrictions, but they are not as strict as the rest of the community. We do have some really -nice- flamingo statues and other lawn decorations on the neighbors' lawns - one next to us is amazingly realistic and awesome to see. I like that we're allowed to express our creative side here, that we don't look like Stepford, and no one can accuse anyone on our side of being with the Borg. We still have to keep our lawns mowed, we still have to get permission to widen our driveways, and so on and so forth.