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Originally Posted by Steely Dan
your parents live in a NE backcountry area?
if memory serves, i thought they lived in mcmanison sprawl out by bloomfield in metro detroit.
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There's no real backcountry in Metro Detroit. They live in a neighborhood of 1-2 acre homesites, built from the 1960's, in Bloomfield Township. So kind of in between the two typologies.
My brother lives in a full-on McMansion area, though. I don't think he has crazy maintenance, since he bought new, and his lot is small and (almost) barren.
I'd say my parents have much more maintenance issues than my brother, but nowhere near as much as if they were living in a 5-10 acre spread in Connecticut. They have city water, sewage, trash, snow removal, etc. There's still a crapload of work in the fall, with leaf removal, and every summer weekend, but I guess you can pay someone.