It’s missing the part where some boomers complained to the city council about noisy delinquents and got a curfew enacted.

This is not the norm. And quite frankly, I’m tired of people stating it as if it was.

BE the change you want in your city. Get informed. Get active, not reactive.

It is 1 billion percent the norm around me. I personally have been fined for three different basketball hoops in two states by boomer ass HoA board members. They (boomers and HoA’s alike) are literally the anti fun police.
Why do you choose to live in an HOA?
It’s not really a choice when accounting for location and affordability. Sometimes it’s HOA or renting forever… or renting in an HOA if you’re truly damned.