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Do they not change them over time in the US?
It looks like a new build estate here, but over the decades people redecorate, some might paint them differently or get an extension. Add a driveway, convert garage into a home office, plant a tree or hedge. After several decades the houses start to show their different unique traits. If you look closely (we saw 5 houses in the same area before buying) you can see how each was originally the same but has been changed over years.
Why are HOA so common? I only read about how annoying and sometimes borderline illegal they act
I think because for most Americans their home is their single largest asset - usually their only one with any resale value. So they jealousy guard against anything that might reduce the value, like a neighbor who does anything out of the blandest, most ordinary things.
... or a neighbor who does something that actually reduces resale value in the neighborhood.
I think we're agreeing. I mean, if your neighbor paints their mailbox with a rainbow then that's something that will make your house harder to sell.
Also houses with an HOA are worth less money.
So glad that we don't have those here, its your house, you should be able to decorate it as you wish as long as it doesn't get to a point of harming others. Generally that would be health risks or blocking out the sun for others. So no 2m pile of fish guts allowed.
Ah, freedom!