If you live in a $1-3 million house why don’t you shovel your sidewalk

[Anonymous]

It's because a lot of people who have that much money don't know how to do stuff like shovel snow.

It sounds crazy, but it's true.

Go walk around, say, Chevy Chase DC vs Wheaton. The lawns in Wheaton are better tended - they are tidier, better mowed, etc - because middle class people know how to work a lawn mower. Lawyers don't but they often aren't willing to spend much time looking for or hiring a gardener and they are working all the time so their lawn looks shabbier.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:It's because a lot of people who have that much money don't know how to do stuff like shovel snow.

It sounds crazy, but it's true.

Go walk around, say, Chevy Chase DC vs Wheaton. The lawns in Wheaton are better tended - they are tidier, better mowed, etc - because middle class people know how to work a lawn mower. Lawyers don't but they often aren't willing to spend much time looking for or hiring a gardener and they are working all the time so their lawn looks shabbier.

PS. I say this as someone whose dad grew up with a gardener. My dad was a wonderful man, but he couldn't do a damn thing around the house.

[Anonymous]

Back pain. Fear of falling and making pain worse. If someone knocks on my door, the job is theirs.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Because my back hurts and no teens have been by

Same here.

Are you not part of a neighborhood listserv? Do you not have neighbors who can give you names? There are a dozen names and numbers floating around my neighborhood listserv

Whelp there are none in my neighborhood in Loudoun. There’s been 85+ posts today on Ring, Next Door, FB asking if anyone is available for hire to help with shoveling. No takers.

Given the injuries people can get from shoveling, it’s worth to just pay whatever fine the HOA or city thinks they can do.

Well Loudoun is outer suburblandia…in Arlington, there are dozens of teens posting and asking for shoveling jobs.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:We don't have sidewalks in our neighborhood. Every time I read one of these threads, I feel better about that. So much whining. Handle your own share of the sidewalk.

+1

[Anonymous]

Most of my neighborhood does, but my immediate neighbors are just generally aholes and don’t bother even though we have senior citizens and school kids who walk to school.

[Anonymous]

We cleared our driveway and were too exhausted to clear our sidewalk.

[Anonymous]

DH joked that we didn't clear our sidewalk so that people would walk on the other side of the street (they walk past our house on the way to the trail all the time).

[Anonymous]

These are the same people that pay for a lawn service every week in the summer.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Are you in MoCo? Take a pic of it and report it. They will get fined.

Not oP but we're in Arlington and have the same issue. Arlington "suspended" the ordinace due to the heavy snow/ice making it near impossible to shovel. Pisses me off that some of us were out 5 times yesterday shoveling and others are going to leave it there indefinitely.

+ 1 in Arlington. we were out multiple times Sunday and then almost all day today as plows came through this morning and completely blocked us in.

Walking our dog is impossible and will be for quite some time. It's always the same homes that refuse to shovel, so nothing to do with the ice making it more difficult
- At least in our neighborhood.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:It’s not that easy to hire people to shovel your snow

Really? Most landscaping companies happy to have a season contract and work for their crews in the off month.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:It’s not that easy to hire people to shovel your snow

Really? Most landscaping companies happy to have a season contract and work for their crews in the off month.

Really, which ones? What area are you posting from? I’ve tried that route and the big companies all have contracts with HOAs. The small guys actually take a break from Dec-Feb and have no need to take on the work of shoveling.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Because the professional crew that I hired prioritizes their big commercial clients first (govt buildings, gas stations, etc). They finally made their first pass at 5pm tonight.
At $800 min/pass, I’m not lifting a finger just to clear a walking path for you and your dog.

Instead, I sat in my home office all day making money. Mostly to pay for the snow removal…

Yeah, walk on the plowed street

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

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Anonymous wrote:It’s not that easy to hire people to shovel your snow

Really? Most landscaping companies happy to have a season contract and work for their crews in the off month.

Really, which ones? What area are you posting from? I’ve tried that route and the big companies all have contracts with HOAs. The small guys actually take a break from Dec-Feb and have no need to take on the work of shoveling.

It may be harder if you aren't a year round customer. Out regular landscaper does offer snow removal to customers. Costs a fortune but we got old.

[Anonymous]

We do