Another Oregon Story

[nebula_octon]

Laundry

I assume she had to sign a homeowners association contract when she bought the home but this is rediculous. The reason she hung her clothes is dumb, and she gave up her right to do what she wants when she entered the homeowners association. But what the hell is wrong with hanging your clothes out to dry behind your house?

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[devlocke]

The reason the article stipulates: it looks tacky. If she didn't want to deal with the hassles of living in a community that insisted on its residents maintaining a cookie-cutter, white-bread, upper-middle-class appearance, she didn't have to move there.

And her community didn't tell her she couldn't hang her clothes to dry. They just said she had to screen it from view. Which is sort of the point. I hate the idea behind the whole planned-community thing, but in this case, all they're asking is that she make it look nice if she's going to dry her clothes outside. That's reasonable. Some trailer-park looking scene in the middle of their subdivision could conceivably lower property values.

[nebula_octon]

It was in her backyard.

[devlocke]

You've never seen a backyard that was plainly visible from the front of the house? Mind you, this is pure conjecture, because the article didn't have a photo of her lot or anything. But most places with rules like that are in pretty expansive lots where just driving by the houses you can see the back yard just fine. The gaps between the houses are large enough.

Ehn; it's trivial anyways, but I can see both sides. She's a dumbass either way, tho.

[nebula_octon]

Agreed she is a dumbass. And it was against the rules but its a shitty rule.