That’s a good point. I wanted to start early today because rain is likely around 11:00 a.m. I started at 9 and was done by 10.
Apparently only if they chose to be so incorporated; but you’re right about the size, at least for rural areas.
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n order to incorporate as a city, a community must have at least 1,000 citizens if it is in a rural area or 5,000 if it is in an urban area
OK, I’ve been wrong before, I expect I’ll be wrong again: and I was wrong this time. Thanks for fighting ignorance!
– I’m still leaving my vote as is, under the presumption that what @RollOutTheBarrel meant was “municipality, whether village, town, township, borough, city, or whatever.” If they meant ‘only vote if you were living in a municipality incorporated as a city of that size’, please advise.
And on the lawnmower poll, I’m voting ‘ask your neighbors’. That should cover different community standards based on climate or whatever; as well as background traffic noise levels, etc. – of course, if one neighbor says ‘not before 10 AM’ and another says ‘I work night shift, not after 10AM when I go to bed!’, then you’ve got a problem.
I put that a an option in the poll, but it’s really not for me. I don’t know the closest neighbors, as they’re up a cliff and down a street. They’re close as the crow flies, but I never see them and don’t know them. (and I’m a shy introvert)
If they’re up a cliff and down a street, unless that actually puts them really close to you and/or it’s an extraordinarily quiet neighborhood, I just wouldn’t worry about it. Your lawnmower probably doesn’t reach their place as anything more than ambient noise, anyway.
(Your drum set with the amps cranked up to 11 may be a different matter … . . )
It’s hard to explain, but basically they’re 75 feet from where I’m mowing (plus elevated), but probably 0.2 miles from me the way I’d have to walk there.
Oh. 75 feet is pretty close; at least unless the elevation is several hundred feet.
Do you have their street address? You could write them a note.
Is there a community bulletin board of sorts, online or elsewhere? You could write a general post. ‘I live on X street (or in Y area) – what’s the community standard around here for how early is too early to run an electric lawnmower?’
Maybe none of that works and you’ll just have to guess. I wouldn’t expect anybody to find 9 shockingly early, around here.
Feel free to define “city” however seems right to you. 
I had a similar answer, based on being the lawnmower (one of my chores) as a teen in southern New Mexico - even so, I went with not before 8 AM, because of the compromises one makes between the best options for self and everyone else. And because as a teen, who was I promise, staying up late on a Saturday night, there was no way I was getting up before 8am anyway…
Lawn mower noise usually doesn’t bother me that much. At least it’s more or less uniform, generally with minimal starts and stops, unlike the constant on/off and revving of other lawn equipment like leaf blowers, string trimmers, etc.
The smallest city I ever lived in had about a 30,000 population when I lived there. But it was completely surrounded (literally) by the city of Los Angeles. The next smallest was at 50,000+ when I lived there. And now I’m actually in Los Angeles – though in one of those areas that’s referred to by another name most of the time because AFAIK it was separate entity back in the day.
OK, will leave my vote as is.
Though I wouldn’t, ordinarily, refer to any of the small places I’ve lived as “cities”. The one large one – yes. That was Rochester, NY at over 600,000 residents at the time. That’s definitely a city! (as well as legally.)
The smallest place I’ve lived was a village in a Swiss municipality that currently has 1,158 residents. The actual village has far fewer than that. This is about the same as when I lived there. The largest place I’ve lived was the Tel Aviv-Jaffa metro area (1,591,000 at the time and 4,421,000 now) and though I’d like to find the population of Ramat Aviv, where I actually lived, I can only easily find the metro area stats.
I’ll mow my lawn whenever I want to. Our neighbors are always up and doing yard work at sunrise. We only have two neighbors within earshot.
That said, I never mow until the dew is gone and the grass dry. This morning I had a chainsaw going at 8 am, but it’s a battery powered saw.
I only stop for BBQ.
I’ve done so many 20-30+ hour transits that 15 seems like a breeze.
I would love that 500 stall bathroom!
Unless your job was cleaning it.
Including other meat products, like jerky. Maybe a farm stand if it looks hyper-local. Strange preserves, ugly but intensely delicious produce, or an “ethnic” diner in a strange land.
And boiled peanuts.
How many people are using this enormous restroom? If there are 75 people using 500 stalls i think, “nice, plenty of room”. If it’s me and 2 other people, I’d find it creepy.
My youngest would “design” houses. Many of his houses would feature similar bathrooms.