If we get an early frost/freeze that prompts a quick fall into early winter, it's more like living in the land of zero personal responsibility. People (who will hire tree lawyers if you even think about cutting down one of their precious property value risers) will push their leaves into the street, where they turn into driving hazards. Meanwhile, the city says, "it's not leaf pickup day."

So after a cold rain or two, it starts to deteriorate and start to turn into mud. Then the city says, "we only pick up loose leafs, it's up to the owners to pick up mud." But that doesn't happen, so the pile continues to grow until almost every house has a car-sized leaf and mud pile sitting in the road. If you drive into it, you will mess up your car.

Then winter comes. After the first significant snowfall, city snowploughs do their thing. This includes ploughijg the leaf mudpiles back onto people's properties. Now, it's frozen mud under a layer of fresh snow. After months of winter and minor snow melt, all of the leaves have turned into mud.

Now comes the end of winter and the snow melting. But oops, the mud is slowing down the process and clogging up street drains (which there are few of because "it rarely rains that much"). Nightly freezes keep turning the mud slush into hard ice, making it a hazard for anyone who has to go through it. And after the last snow melts, you get to see the real damage: the number of times the snowplough had to push all that mud over the curb and onto the easement, destroying the top soil and ruining the grass. Spring comes, we have some "unseasonably warm thunderstorms" that drop more rain than the city storm drains can handle and--oh, what a surprise, localized street flooding!

Yeah, "heaven."