I lived in Boston when I was in graduate school, and Bostonians are notoriously territorial about parking spaces in winter. People would shovel out a space and then try to save it with a lawn chair, bucket or traffic cone. If someone else parked in that spot, you might just get some dirty looks. Chances are good you might get screamed at, bullied, or even beaten up or tires slashed. sometimes they'd shovel the sidewalk but usually not, making it a nasty mess walking to the train.
My point is that the city didn't do squat in terms of snow removal. Of course, that brought out the worst kind of "lord of the flies" instincts in people.
. So, I lived all around the city (including quite awhile in Somerville and Cambridgeport).
