This makes me laugh. I am a Cal transplant and I have had the exact opposite experience. I have had 4x the complaints from my entitled Idaho boomer HOA neighbors (who half goto AZ in the winter). Some of them proudly have anti trump bumper stickers.
There’s something about moving into a nice neighborhood where the lots are all 2+ acres and then get multiple complaints in the past 6 months for:
- having my travel trailer parked out front because it’s late fall. I learned that they have an unspoken rule that RVs are ok during summer even though the official rule is 2 weeks per year. I keep it in covered storage during the winter
- having some stuff outside a month after moving into a newly built house. this was a passive aggressive comment at the HOA meeting where they said “they are settling in and im sure they will have things cleaned up”
- last month i put totes and garden tools on the side of my house because it was on my flatbed, which I used to cut firewood. the firewood was sitting out. my neighbor came by a week later to complain to my wife. If he caught me I would have said “yea it’s a mess I will clean it up asap” if I was around. But the fun part: he kept going off to my wife about how my truck is always parked outside and our garage door is always open. the only related rule in our hoa: no broken down vehicles. I have a clean 2500 with low miles. The neighbor did say that my firewood mess was “understandable” because people cut firewood around here. no shit, I just cut 1.5 cords of old growth larch and had split them 2 days prior! I happen to have two young kids, a full time job and a new business!
