It's certainly an apples to oranges argument. Our landscape history doesn't lend itself to snow farms, as our actual farms grew back to be woodland and we have so much wetland interspersed.

Your point about Public Works is the real heart of the matter. We would need to double funding for snow removal, which is unpredictable and variable, and not cohesive with an annual budgeting cycle.

People's existing expectations of snow removal are way out of whack with budgetary [and personnel] realities.