I feel for you all who have to live in a city/village etc... They have you by the short-hairs - and they know it..
I have a well. I have a sewer. Only thing I pay for is garbage and that's $75/mo..
I've told my wife since the day we got married that I will never live inside some 'city limits' unless I'm in a nursing home - and at that time I won't GAS...
