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.
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.