You really should move to a neighborhood with a really strong HOA so you can get yourself elected to its board and enforce all your petty little likes and dislikes on your neighbors.
Yeah, the neighbors who chose, freely, to submit themselves to the same rules I do?
Yep, that's what I did (well, not the get on the board part). Voluntary self-governance by people with similar standards of property maintenance? What's not to like about that?
You want to live in a dump, cool; just please don't move in next to me.