There is plenty of unincorporated land in the us. You can't have it both ways. You want to live in an area that is the way it is because of housing association rules, and then not live by the rules. If you revoke the rules, your neighbors will leave. You may as well build in unincorporated land to begin with.
Houston has super neighborhoods many of which have deed restrictions which accomplish similar things. Houston is a happy a good way to go. As you can have a poor super neighborhood next to a rich one. But I still hear some people in the rich super neighborhood complaining about the deed restrictions, the only thing separating them from their neighbors across the super neighborhood line. They could have bought in the other super neighborhood, but they didn't want that either...
