Quote Originally Posted by Aloha_Shooter View Post
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