Obama got to my trash service too

[Gman]

Moving here from Texas, this home-owner contracted trash pickup was new to me. The municipality you lived in took care of it. It was effective and you didn't have trash cans on the curb multiple days per week.

[Aloha_Shooter]

Moving here from Texas, this home-owner contracted trash pickup was new to me. The municipality you lived in took care of it. It was effective and you didn't have trash cans on the curb multiple days per week.

I first moved here from Hawaii and we also had municipal pickup. Frankly, the homeowner-contracted service is not only effective, it's superior. I'll take people contracting for different pickup days over garbage men on strike, demanding to be paid on par with teachers and violently repulsing homeowners attempting to take garbage to the dumps themselves, or the extortion for Christmas and New Years' "presents" -- don't leave a good enough tip and your garbage ended up "accidentally" strewn across the street.

[cofi]

I first moved here from Hawaii and we also had municipal pickup. Frankly, the homeowner-contracted service is not only effective, it's superior. I'll take people contracting for different pickup days over garbage men on strike, demanding to be paid on par with teachers and violently repulsing homeowners attempting to take garbage to the dumps themselves, or the extortion for Christmas and New Years' "presents" -- don't leave a good enough tip and your garbage ended up "accidentally" strewn across the street.

I had municipal pick up for over 25 years in Jersey and never experienced any of that....now I moved up here and we have had 2 company's take our money and disappear within a month

[centrarchidae]

Moving here from Texas, this home-owner contracted trash pickup was new to me. The municipality you lived in took care of it. It was effective and you didn't have trash cans on the curb multiple days per week.

Moving here from Northern Harare, er, Chicago, it was new to me too. But the idea of NOT having to add a bunch more city employees to the payroll in order to do another job about as well as they fill potholes, fix parking tickets, and stop street crime while giving lots of tax money to someone's cousin seemed like a neat change.