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I don’t understand why anybody would ever want conformity...

There is a purple house on my block and it’s not uncommon for people to park in their front yards as circumstances dictate. We’re even allowed to raise chickens for eggs/meat...I let my yard turn brown every summer.

I rest my case.

I rest my case.

Homes on my street have doubled and tripled in price in the last 10 years without the need for a bunch of closet socialists ready to whip out their rulers to see if my grass is too high or ready to whip out color charts to see if my paint is the wrong shade, so I rest my case. It actually pisses me off because the values have continued to go up, which means the taxes continue to go up. If I thought my property value would go down, and therefore my taxes, you better believe I'd be parking in the yard everyday.

It comes down to location - if you're in a good location, your property values are going to stay high or increase no matter what color you paint your house or if you xeriscape your lawn. That's the whole point of a being in a desirable location versus a crappy location that a developer tries to make desirable, or tries to convince you is desirable.

If you are living in one of these subdivisions that requires an HOA in order to prop up your property values, or at least you think it props up the property values, it's only a matter of time until somebody puts in a slightly better subdivision down the road or your subdivision gets old which will cause your subdivision to start dropping in value. I've seen this happen plenty of times with people I know in the Houston area.

As for the conformity aspect, it still amazes me how many conservatives talk about individualism and then go home to tract housing.