I live in an area with a couple dozen acreages that are in an HOA - except ours. We're on an outside corner of it all. Somehow when it was platted 30 years ago, our place wasn't included, probably because it was a hay field at the time. Oh, shucks, I don't get to me a member. I'll live with that.

“In a time of deceit telling the truth is a revolutionary act.”
― George Orwell

It's not over when you lose. It's over when you quit.