You know, one of the many, many reasons I despise the "housing culture" (I'm too tired to come up with better term, sue me) in USA, and in this case especially the HOAs, is because the town I grew up in was basically one goddamn massive apple orchard.
Apparently the soil in there is very much in favor of growing apples, and while yes, there's few actual orchards, majority of the apple trees are in the residential yards. Most yards have at least one tree, depending on the size. The row house apartment I my family lived in until I was 21 had TINY backyard and we had two apple trees and one plum tree. If the house has a big yard and is in the older parts of the town (few neighboring town got merged in few years ago, so those parts don't have the same apple culture) it's kinda expected it has at least like 10 trees and probably berry bushes too. I swear, even some apartment buildings got apple trees.
Okay, yeah, that town has weird relationship with apples (there's goddamn apple festival!), but that's my expectation and then I come to internet and start to learn how in USA you might be legally prohibited from growing any sort of edibles in your yard and you have to have your yard super neat and plain or else you get penalized?
Okay, tbh I'm still bit fatigued from being sick for most of the week, so I can't actually articulate how much that pisses me of, even though I most likely won't ever have to deal with that because I live on the other side of the planet and I plan on only split my residential time between apartment buildings and my family's cottage in the middle of the damn forest, where no one cares and even if they do they don't actually have any leverage, but yeah fuck that shit!
And maybe I should actually take my snooze tab and go to sleep, so I can some day get over this damn fatigue...
