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In certain New England towns there are laws protecting the community from insane owners with bad taste in paint.

Like it or not, others will see your insane paint choices every day when they go past.

The selfish/clueless owners who painted their house like a candycane are giving the middle finger to their neighbors, the town, and society.

I imagine they're foreigners/geeks.

If you like drab housing, move to Russia. Plenty of nice neutral colored housing there.

Not everybody digs the boring white people Martha Stewart collection pastel colors. Embrace Diversity.

I notice the private property advocates are usually the first to try to impose their personal tastes on their neighbors using laws. Paint Color, What plants can be in the front yards, Satellite Dishes, etc. They'll get hopping mad about needful things like school taxes, but fight their neighbor over a lawn flamingo on property that doesn't belong to them.

"You can make me take my garden gnomes out, if you pay my mortgage for me. Otherwise, shut up you commie - what's mine is not yours."

The "boring white people Martha Stewart" shows you have some issues.

A "boring white Architect" designed that beautiful house.

People pick nice towns and nice neighborhoods for a reason, and they pay for them.

Painting their house like a rainbow is slightly better than making it into a crack house, but either way they're being bad neighbors, although I doubt this concept has any meaning to you.

The reason people get so emotional about their house is that they've spent way too much money on it.

I personally dig that colorful house. I think Victorians can look pretty creepy, so anything that can be done to make them cartoon-like is cool with me.

clambo says

People pick nice towns and nice neighborhoods for a reason, and they pay for them.

Yep, but you have no authority to tell your neighbor what to do with his private property. You should be free to say it sucks, then grin and bear it.

Their house is made to their tastes, not yours. They're paying for it, not you. Those who don't pay for dinner don't get to pick the restaurant.

As you say, you are free to leave the neighborhood if you think it's all getting artsy fartsy.

As ultracapitalists are always fond of saying, if you don't like it, buy it and change it. You are free to pay them to move and paint their house anyway you like.

You aren't - or shouldn't - be the petty dictator of Paint Color.
clambo says

Painting their house like a rainbow is slightly better than making it into a crack house, but either way they're being bad neighbors, although I doubt this concept has any meaning to you.

The tint on paint has nothing to do with your physical health or security.

what ASSHOLES!

Everyone should be force to wrap their house in cigarette-stain-teeth yellow siding. Get your little squid ass mower out and spend half your summer mowing lmao

You wanna see a bad neighbour,,,,come over to my house complaining about something you don't like, looking to enforce ordinance, and watch me fight back with ordnance.

If someone attempts shit like this, our HOA will tie them down to the ground and run them over back and forth with a tractor just to make sure. Then, they will righteously initiate foreclosure proceedings to get the missing monthly dues. As long as social committee gets its cut sall good!

Right! If you enjoy having fascists for neighbors, move to an HOA controlled hood.

I kind of like the colors, too.

Nobody has ever accused me of good taste.

In California, if it isn't a muted earth tone or variation of pastel dung, approved by the Sierra Club to provide perfect camouflage, so that the space aliens can't tell we are a populated planet, then it is out of bounds.

Ceffer says

In California, if it isn't a muted earth tone or variation of pastel dung,
approved by the Sierra Club

Can anyone point to an actual liberal who has made or enforced color palette laws, esp in Southern CA? The petty tyrants that run my gritty industrial city as though it was trying to be Irvine are anything BUT liberal.

thunderlips11 says

Not everybody digs the boring white people Martha Stewart collection pastel colors. Embrace Diversity.

What is the deal with that? All of the houses used to be neatly painted nice natural colors, and trimmed in various colors. Those trims were where people would get creative. Then during the housing bubble, people started painting their houses, the color of bedsheets that you find in K-Mart reduced rack. You're not kidding, THANK YOU! For helping me finger, and describe why I hate it so fucking much.

Fist of all they were colors that were used to accent architectural features. It's great when used on a McMansion with more features than just the four corners of a Burbdale ranchero special house. People paint a dinky tiny ass house with it, and it highlights the house as dinky little closet sitting on 6K ft lot. Then they drove away like he didn't notice it, and the neighbors watched them do it, and didn't say a damn word. It's the damnedest thing.

Automan Empire says

Can anyone point to an actual liberal who has made or enforced color palette laws, esp in Southern CA? The petty tyrants that run my gritty industrial city as though it was trying to be Irvine are anything BUT liberal.

Yeah, this is sort of a bullshit argument. Typically it's HOAs that do this, and HOAs don't tend to be run by "liberals" -- even if you're using the improper Nixonian definition of that term that is in common parlance.