Anonymous
Post 01/26/2026 22:29     Subject: If you live in a $1-3 million house why don’t you shovel your sidewalk
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
Post 01/26/2026 21:59     Subject: If you live in a $1-3 million house why don’t you shovel your sidewalk
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
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
Post 01/26/2026 21:58     Subject: If you live in a $1-3 million house why don’t you shovel your sidewalk
Back pain. Fear of falling and making pain worse. If someone knocks on my door, the job is theirs.
Anonymous
Post 01/26/2026 21:56     Subject: If you live in a $1-3 million house why don’t you shovel your sidewalk
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
Post 01/26/2026 21:55     Subject: If you live in a $1-3 million house why don’t you shovel your sidewalk
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
Post 01/26/2026 21:48     Subject: If you live in a $1-3 million house why don’t you shovel your sidewalk
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.


Same, though the lack of sidewalks never bothered me. Particularly grateful for no sidewalks on days like these. Barely managed to shovel a tiny path from road to house and to cars.
Anonymous
Post 01/26/2026 21:40     Subject: If you live in a $1-3 million house why don’t you shovel your sidewalk
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.
Anonymous
Post 01/26/2026 21:40     Subject: If you live in a $1-3 million house why don’t you shovel your sidewalk
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
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.
Anonymous
Post 01/26/2026 21:38     Subject: If you live in a $1-3 million house why don’t you shovel your sidewalk
Anonymous wrote:“ Lots of people are shoveling their way into the hospital, DC-area doctor says”

WTOP article


Just wait until all the slip-and-falls land in the ER.
Anonymous
Post 01/26/2026 21:38     Subject: If you live in a $1-3 million house why don’t you shovel your sidewalk
I'm afraid of someone slipping and falling and suing me, so I cleaned ours ASAP.
Anonymous
Post 01/26/2026 21:37     Subject: If you live in a $1-3 million house why don’t you shovel your sidewalk
It has been several years of watching the group home of young people never shovel their sidewalks and this is the year I report them to the county.

Some rental property landlords are lazy and just want to collect their rent and don’t care about the law and public safety of others.
Anonymous
Post 01/26/2026 21:35     Subject: If you live in a $1-3 million house why don’t you shovel your sidewalk
Anonymous wrote:
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

Anonymous
Post 01/26/2026 21:34     Subject: If you live in a $1-3 million house why don’t you shovel your sidewalk
“ Lots of people are shoveling their way into the hospital, DC-area doctor says”

WTOP article
Anonymous
Post 01/26/2026 21:33     Subject: If you live in a $1-3 million house why don’t you shovel your sidewalk
We have cleared our stuff. But Arlington has left the street untouched and there is hard snow 7 inches above the pavement. We will run out of food if there is more snow. Not sure we can walk out either. Old.
Anonymous
Post 01/26/2026 21:29     Subject: If you live in a $1-3 million house why don’t you shovel your sidewalk
Anonymous wrote:Because my back hurts and no teens have been by

Same here.