I live in Texas and recently went to Missouri, I was absolutely flabbergasted that there were almost literally zero fences! Whole neighborhoods were just house after house and lawns in between. Was quite a refreshing new experience for me.

12 foot fence? That's got to at least double the cost. It’s hard for me to understand people who go to such tremendous lengths to hide from the world. Like my old neighbors who closed every blind in the house the day they moved in and never opened them again. I don’t care what people do in their house... but that’s weird.

People love fences so much, In 2015 Dallas made 9ft the maximum, Houston is 8 ft. In both the more wealthy suburbs can get permit exceptions for 10ft. Fort Worth you can see 12ft and 10ft more so, due to no restrictions.

Austin seems to care about this a bit less, but I think it might be due to terrain. In general a fence increases home value usually in most Texas cities.

Honestly, growing up and living in Texas for 40 years, I've never seen more than an 8' fence, and that once. Most are 6'.

I really should have clarified since I was thinking of my bias view of Fort Worth where we don't have city ordinances that prevent fences over 4ft in the front yard and 9ft in back yards like Dallas.