Our apartment is on Milwaukee's east side just south of the UWM campus. Many of the nice brick apartment buildings and duplexes that line tree covered streets in our neighborhood are home to university students during the school year. And you can always tell when one group is moving out and another is moving in. The first rush "out" usually happens sometime in May with a smaller move-out in August. (I guess some students stay for most of the summer before moving on to jobs or back home or whatever.)
How can we tell that out-in moving is going on? It's not too hard
Happily the evidence doesn't stay around for long. Milwaukee's trash removal is pretty thorough and the men and women who ride the big trucks do a great job of clean up. I do wonder if landlords put the cost of trash/furniture removal in their rental fees or this is just part of city property taxes or whatever.
I also wonder if some of the better stuff finds a new home or if it all ends up in a landfill somewhere. The piles also remind me just how much "stuff" we Americans accumulate and just how disposable we think it is.
Just something else to ponder as Fenway and I walk the neighborhood.....
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