Sure we need electricity, oil refineries, sewage plants. I just choose to not live next to them.
In your case, your antenna is fine. I was just yanking your chain a little. Looking at the pictures there is a lot of space between the houses. If I were your neighbor I wouldn't have a problem either. We're not really comparing apples with apples though. In a neighborhood with houses close together you cannot have someone putting up an antenna like that. You surely realize that? If that antenna were in my neighbor's yard it would dominate my view and for sure would diminish my resale value. But then I live on a postage sized property.
If I were a land baron like you with acres of space around, then of course it wouldn't matter.
Actually there are ways to lessen their impact on sight lines and frankly, most people never even look up anyway. How many time have you spotted an airplane flying over while non-pilot friends have no clue?
In my old neighborhood in town, a neighbor had a very nice crank up. (Well, he had added an electric winch to it for remote "cranking"...) When down, his antenna stack nestled into his back yard up against the house and nobody ever noticed it. He popped it up on contest weekends to 80'. Wasn't cheap.
It was only a generation or so ago that almost every house had a TV antenna on the roof. Just because folks want 500 channels of uselessness via cable or dish, those have waned, and then have made a minor comeback as people realized they don't need to spend over $1200 a year to have propaganda and advertisements piped into their TV sets. During that time, Internet video streaming also took off. But a TV antenna on a house, to me, is a small sign that the owner is probably not much of a group-think kinda person these days. Hard to keep up with all the useless "pundits" without paying for them to be delivered to you.
Especially so because the vast majority of people who seek positions of (pseudo)-authority on HOA boards are incurable control freaks who derive an almost orgasmic rush from dominating and controlling others.
There's a word for this. Sociopaths.
It's like so many other aspects of life in the modern age, people with little that could be described as accomplishments in their lives, aching to seem, feel, pretend, or just have something to lie about, as far as self importance, ruin every thing they touch.
More finger spasming?
Biggest load of nonsense I've read in a while and not particularly poetic if you were trying to be. Friday afternoon happy hour perhaps? There has GOT to be an explanation!
It's actually somewhat accurate. The highly successful folk I've known that live in fancy gated communities with overbearing HOAs, aren't the ones on the Board. They're often traveling and away much of the time anyway, or running their businesses and working long hours.
In the neighborhood that was so bad that it got called out for it in the local lefty-newspaper here for outrageous behavior, the instigator was a bored housewife of a Doctor, without children, or somesuch. And that pattern is quite common. Doesn't really matter the gender, she just wanted to feel as important as her never-home, busy, Cardiologist spouse. So she went looking for a way to be that important. Some go into politics, but I suspect she didn't have control of the checkbook and he wasn't going to pay for any campaigning. So she started small where 500 or so people had signed a contract to abide by the HOA rules and if she could just get on the Board, they'd have to listen to her because they had no legal choice. The bylaws were so screwed up from the start that it took six years to eradicate that sociopath. Problems with quorum. Problems with needing a 2/3 majority. Problems even convincing the absentee owners who were renting that there was a problem child running things.
It really only came to a head when she got it so fouled up that they had to hire a management company with lawyers to straighten it out. Then it triggered a big jump in dues and the busy/successful people started taking notice and tossed her ass to the curb.
It's like the same problem in companies. Sure the person may be "nice", but they have no credentials and no skills in leadership nor even basic management skills. Eventually someone notices and tosses them out. But it takes forever and you lose staff over it because they don't want to live through waiting on that process while answering to a nincompoop.
