[CatOwner]

First mistake: Buying property in a covenant-controlled community.

Welcome to a great deal of Texas. We lived in a house for 32+ years as an adult in California, and not one damn HOA. It's real difficult to avoid them here in Texas. So much for freedom.

[Jane Long]

You can always go back to your hometown area, of CA.

I’m sure you’ll make out, like a bandit, with the money you’ll save, doing so.

🙃

[zeugma]

It's real difficult to avoid them here in Texas. So much for freedom.

You're not kidding. They are a plague.