Apparently, you could have bought a house on the gravel road if you wanted to come out “ahead”. I hope though a moment’s thought would allow you to understand that if you moved to a house on a gravel road that you would NOT come out ahead, because you would pay exactly the same money you are paying now, but would have a crappy gravel road instead of a nicely paved road.
The fact is that the people on the paved roads and gravel roads pay the same in taxes, and pay the same in HOA. Those on the paved roads have a nice paved road, and therefore are better off than those in the gravel roads. And if the county didn’t maintain your paved road, you’d still pay the same tax but your HOA dues would go UP to cover the increased cost of maintaining the paved road.
It does not look like those on the paved road are being taken advantage of. It looks like they are better off than their gravel road counterparts.
Apparently your government has a rule that it will maintain private roads if they are paved. By paving parts of the road, the developer managed to lower the overall HOA fees, by passing off work to the government.
That isn’t an inconvenience to those who live on the paved road, it’s a benefit.
Maybe the people on the gravel roads should be insisting that the HOA fees be raised so that they can get the same paved roads as those who already have them. THEN the county will maintain all the roads, and everybody will get the same treatment.
Wow. Not surprising from you. Are you sure you’re not a democrat?