Some said they worried about car crashes, fires, garbage and increased pollution.
"Maybe it's just the warming of the weather that brings out the rats, fires, garbage and druggists, prostitutes, weirdos or maybe it's just me".
But for most ordinary folks with families, children and regular jobs, living with rats, fires, garbage, druggists, prostitutes and weirdos is simply too big a price to pay.
Hundreds of protesters set fire to garbage trucks and threw projectiles at the police on Thursday as a garbage crisis flared up near Naples.
As the jihadists swept through northeastern Syria, they seized fire trucks, garbage trucks, ambulances, generators, water tanks, and rescue equipment that had been provided to local councils.
The real criminal, they say, is Mr Petro, a polemical figure who earlier this year successfully fought an attempt by Colombia's inspector general to unseat him for flouting the law by trying to fire private garbage haulers.
Hundreds of youths clashed with the police outside Parliament and other central landmarks, smashing store facades, setting fire to garbage dumpsters and prompting officers to fire stun grenades and unleash thick clouds of tear gas that sent Athenians and tourists scurrying into side streets with their eyes streaming.
Even so, Mr. Lesko suggested that the village proponents were being unrealistic, pointing out that a recent house condemnation required the removal of 40 tons of debris and the deployment of fire marshals, garbage inspectors, lawyers and even animal control officers (for a resident pit bull).
The Bloomberg administration spent millions of dollars to put custom-made GPS tracking units in fire and garbage trucks, only to have vehicles inexplicably show up on computer screens as if they had sunk to the bottom of Long Island Sound or New York Harbor, the city comptroller has found.
The most important area of entrepreneurship, however, may well be an emerging "Fourth Sector" of public-private partnerships, in which governmental units, usually municipalities, determine performance standards and contract out for services like fire protection, garbage collection, and bus transportation to private companies on the basis of competitive bids.
