{"id":1435,"date":"2023-06-06T22:40:36","date_gmt":"2023-06-07T04:40:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.desertscope.com\/wp\/?p=1435"},"modified":"2023-06-06T22:40:36","modified_gmt":"2023-06-07T04:40:36","slug":"neighborhood-standards","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.desertscope.com\/wp\/?p=1435","title":{"rendered":"Neighborhood Standards"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>John Oliver recently ran a story on homeowner associations (HOAs).  The story was centered on the worst aspects of that particular &#8211; and almost universally despised &#8211; facet of suburban life.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I generally agree, and a selling point of the house in which I currently live was that it is not associated with an HOA.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>But &#8230;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I just wanted to present a bit of a counterpoint.  On the one hand, a house with a staid, conservative fa\u00e7ade will hardly be noticed in an outlandish Miami neighborhood.  But on the other, a garish and colorful house among a sea of bland and stately houses.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>There is a reason for aesthetic standards.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>But &#8230;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>When I lived on a rural backroad (and prior to the advent of civilian-use GPS), my home was very hard to find.  We eventually figured out an easy-to-follow set of instructions.  These directions were basically as follows:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ol class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>[blah]<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>[blah]<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>[blah]<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Then, when you get to this *god-awful* green house, take a right.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>[blah]<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n\n\n\n<p>No one ever failed to find my house.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>John Oliver recently ran a story on homeowner associations (HOAs). The story was centered on the worst aspects of that particular &#8211; and almost universally despised &#8211; facet of suburban life. I generally agree, and a selling point of the house in which I currently live was that it is not associated with an HOA. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1435","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","post-preview"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.desertscope.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1435","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.desertscope.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.desertscope.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.desertscope.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.desertscope.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1435"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blog.desertscope.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1435\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1437,"href":"https:\/\/blog.desertscope.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1435\/revisions\/1437"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.desertscope.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1435"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.desertscope.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1435"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.desertscope.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1435"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}