[bagekko]

It's not for everybody, but personally less people/neighbors/HOA easily outweighs all the negatives people may mention here easily. People suck and I want to be close to as few as possible.

My wife finally understands and is completely on board with next place being more rural. We lived in a great neighborhood before with 30 houses, now in that same space is 300+ houses. There was 2-3 neighbors maybe you didn't like or some sort of issue, now it's 10 fold plus. In rural areas people tend to keep to themselves more and are there for the privacy and freedom, I feel the giant communities tend to attract more people who on one hand don't care/respect the neighbors and yet will also be the pot calling the kettle black.