Quote Originally Posted by Gman View Post
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.