We live down a pipestem: that is, a long driveway that forks into our specific driveway and our neighbor's specific driveway. It's nice to be removed from the street a bit, but fucking _sucks_ when it snows because its on us to shovel the whole thing.
Anyway, it's been a decade since both of our households moved in, and the asphalt (especially my neighbors') is in rough shape, so they've got some folks ripping it up and repaving...
... and wanted to know if we wanted to repave our specific stretch and split the lengthy common stretch. We could use the work, too, and yes: absolutely our families should share that cost for the common stretch.
We talked with the guys and _holy shit_ I had no idea how much it would cost. I'd thought we were talking resealing (which is like $1k - hardly chump change). They were talking $5k for our part of the driveway and $20k for the common stretch...
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