• Calavera@lemmy.zip
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    4 days ago

    HOA? I don’t think this is such a thing in Europe, at least not in Portugal. wandering if it’s a american defaultism thing

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      4 days ago

      We have them in Iceland for multi tenant buildings such as blocks for handling outside repairs etc. Nobody has them for a whole street since with rules on how often the lawn needs to be moved like in the US.

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      4 days ago

      I’m not allowed to replace the roofing on my house with anything other than real slate. So there are some restrictions.

      Other people on the street have solar panels though so I’m guessing they’re not too restrictive. The difference being that this is a government restriction rather than some arbitrary requirement from a Karen.

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      4 days ago

      Though we do have a lot of places everywhere in Europe that restrict how buildings can look, often for tourism reasons.

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          The smaller the community, the smaller the difference. But at least there’s no HOA in addition to that.