My wife's coworker lives in an HOA. Her husband has MS I think, and their neighbors know this. They see what she has to go through to get him to the car, in and out of the car, etc., and yet, her next door neighbor is always giving her shit about her yard and whatnot. She's trying to get some things remodeled/repaired in her home, and occasionally, when she gets home from work, she has to park out on the street until the handymen are gone (their lots are small and her driveway is really short), and they give her shit about that. They go out of their way to make her life more difficult than it already is, when they could take a few minutes to stand in her shoes, and ask if there's anything they could do to help her.

There's no fucking way I'd ever live in an HOA. I honestly don't know what's going through people's minds when they think everything will be OK to live under one.