I’ve lived in 2 HOA’s and they have both provided more benefits than drawbacks. Maybe your problem is in the mirror.

You don’t have to be white to keep up your property. I don’t care what the color of my neighbors skin is. I just want them to replace that rotting fence that is falling over.

I have lived in 2 neighborhoods with HOA’s. And maybe they are the exception, but both were great.

Jackie Chan did tried that first

Ooooo I’m hungry now!

Oh.. give it a break.  Every show has occasionally had an episode where the main characters take a back seat.

I agree with having a radio, but not necessarily a hand crank radio. If you have one, thats great. But just a battery powered radio is fine.
It used to be that everyone had one of those. But if you look around your house, I bet you would be hard pressed to find a radio that doesn’t plug in.
Thats what I discovered…

If you have a natural gas furnace, the car generator could run the fan, which shouldn’t be more than 400 watts.

But I am the “Master of my domain” ;)

We have a FixIt app that Plano TX uses. It does take months sometimes, because they batch everything in one area together.
I was actually surprised that not all municipalities own the sidewalks.  You learn something every day!

As the antisocial person I am, I am amazed that this is really a “thing”.

Go where I want, when I want , for as long as I want. Granted, this applied more to when I was single, but still..

Well, married here, so no sex anyway (that’s another issue)
As for friends, there’s no need. I just do what I want to do by myself.

Easier to just not have friends. Less drama. Less effort. More freedom.

I remember being alone one Thanksgiving just by chance and I thought it would be fun, since I’m an introvert and I don’t need to socialize.

I have tried this, and it doesn’t work for me.  I think I’m just one of those people who is overly sensitive to bitterness.  I don’t like IPA’s either.

I only got through the first two episodes of the original anime. I got tired of watching the main character be an incompetent bounty hunter.

ohh, its only been available outside the US?

Wait, What? Its been available on Netflix? I specifically didn’t bother watching it because I thought it was only on Paramount and I didn’t want to pay for another streaming service.
Shit

I used to sell stuff on eBay, until they started requiring me to give them access to my bank account. Yeahhh, like THAT’s ever gonna happen!
I just donate to Goodwill now and take the tax writeoff.