Ridiculously powerful backpack leaf blower and a yard that slopes from street to the back area which is natural woods. I herd the pile towards the woods and let gravity place the leaves where they compost into the forest floor.
I chop up fallen leaves with a mulching mower - good natural fertilizer for the lawn.
Sometimes I’ll use a leaf string chopper to create mulch, or to add to green leavings in my mulching barrel.
I got nuthin’ but dust. 
I giggle at people always posting here about mowing over leaves or just letting them sit on the lawn. Hey, you have no idea what having leaves is really like. No idea.
Since we got rid of a bunch of trees last year, the difficulty of clearing them off has gone done.
The real noticeable thing is the increasing delay in “leaf season”. Used to start late Sept/early Oct. Then mid-Oct., then late Oct. Now it started just a week ago. That’s really dramatic.
I took care of my leaf-raking problems 20 years ago by getting rid of the trees in my yard. So while I get a few strays from the neighbors (the mower will do for them), it’s not an issue for me.
Two houses ago, we had a wooded area behind our lot. It was SO cool to be able to just rake the leaves there. Unfortunately, it was uphill! But I was younger then, and it outweighed bagging.
I have the day off work today, so I decided to rake out some beds and mulch again. Backyard is done, and I’m taking a break before hitting the front. Two houses immediately to my north, and two houses to the south on the other side of my immediate neighbor haven’t touched theirs yet. The only 4 houses on the block. So I’ll do a half assed job out front, and figure I’ll have to rake or mulch one more time.
As I get older, I’m a lot less particular about it. I recall when I used to get down and pull the leaves out from under bushes. Now, I figure they’ll turn to compost.
We have a Japanese Maple that is doing REALLY well (they can be finicky.) It dropped about 1/2 of its leaves, and they make a perfect scarlet carpet under the tree. I left them. They are too pretty right now. And they are pretty fine leaves, so they dry/curl up on their own.
So, no one yet has checked in to say they live in a neighborhood and are the last to do their leaves. I’m happy we don’t live in an association. But I sometimes wonder what people think when so many of their neighbors have done a task like this, and they just wait, knowing that it imposes a burden on the neighbors. (Yeah, nowhere near a big deal, and I’m not saying anyone else has to maintain their property up - or down - to MY standards!)
Yeah, I love the look of our Japanese Maple and will often leave those leaves as they are.
Then there’s the Pin Oaks. Big, beautiful trees, but they drop just enough leaves to force a clean-up, then they drop another load the next day.
I rake 'em off the walkway in back and call it good. Before I came along, the Big Crow didn’t even do that. Big Leaf Maples (acer acer) seem to have leaves that deteriorate quickly. They’re gone by the time the wood hyacinths come up in late winter.
I live in the PNW. Believe me, I know what leaves is like. I’m just glad I don’t have to deal with the piles and piles that other people in the 'hood have.
Me too, but slightly different. I go to work, some guys come in a truck and make noise. They’re gone when I get home along with the leaves, some grass, the check I left on the back porch, and parts of the bushes. I have no idea what actually happens to all the detritus.
After I finished mulching, the guy 2 doors south (actually, her father) got to work w/ a blower and rake. Then 2 different crews came to hit the 2 lawns to the N. So that leaves (ha!) everyone reasonably clean other than the guy on the corner.
I’ve occasionally wondered where the yard waste goes. You sure see landfills, but I’ve never noticed industrial-sized composting operations…
At our county landfill, you can dump your yard waste in a designated area, and they run it thru a mega-grinder and deposit a mega-pile of mulch free for the taking. If you don’t mind bits of plastic bags or potential poison ivy debris, it’s a good deal. Personally, I’m not interested, but they seem to have enough takers to make it worthwhile.
I live in an unincorporated patch surrounded by incorporated developments on all sides. Because we’re not officially part of the town, we can burn our leaves because their rules don’t apply to us, man. This annoyed the other people because of the smoke. I once had someone call the fire department on me which then sent a fire engine to the house only to confirm that yes, it was legal and that people were wasting their time.
In the last few years, the township must have decided the easiest route to peace was to take the leaves off our hands for us. They do four or five free pickup days during Oct-Nov where you just need to rake/blow the leaves to the street and they drive a truck by to hoover them up. As a result, few people burn any longer.
Well whaddaya know! If you ever need to find a composter… 
In the winter, it seems to help the grass to keep some leaves on the ground. Maybe it keeps the grass warmer or something, but it seems to come back greener the next year. But if the leaves are too thick, it seems to smother the grass and it doesn’t do as well. So I typically rake the bulk of the leaves but don’t get get it totally clean.
One other thing I do is put the leaves in a big trash can and shred them with my weed wacker. It greatly reduces the space they take up, and it makes good mulch to spread around. Many yard blowers also have a way to be a leaf mulcher. They suck up the leaves and the blades shred them and blow them into a bag. It doesn’t shred them as much as the weed wacker, but it’s still pretty good for reducing how many bags you need.
I have to rake my back lawn and put the leaves in the yard waste. The tree is a walnut, and the leaves will poison the grass. I found that out the hard way- years of mulching them where they lie or raking the leaves over to my garden patch and tilling them in. Now I can barely grow anything there.
(I did a WTF search and found out that walnuts produce a chemical known as juglone which exudes from their roots and is in their leaves. Only certain plants will grow near or under walnuts. The lawn is going away this fall and we’re putting in a patio instead so we can enjoy the deep shade in the summer. You may say, “Oh sure, but you get all those nice walnuts every year!”, but noooo, the squirrels ate them all, little bastards.)
And when the snow melts? What then?
I may or may not be the last, but I’m definitly after my neighbor. She has a habit of blowing her leaves away from her property. In the back, no problem, there are woods. In the front, no problem, the town sends a vacuum truck every week in leaves season. But on the sides, the leaves just go on neigbors’ properties. Including mine. she argues that eventually the leaves on neighbors’ yards end up in the truck or the woods. So “it all works out”.
In the past three years I have directed my lawn guy to just mow what’s there, but after the last mowing to rake all leaves to near my property line with her. Then, a week or so after she is done, I blow all those over the proerty line. The first year she said nothing. The second year she questioned the wisdom of my actions, but I explained to her my supreme confidence that it will all work out. Let’s see what happens this year.
^The Milagro Beanfield and Leaf War.
Last year I was walking my dog one fall evening. A couple of blocks over a guy was doing the same thing - blowing the leaves from his property onto his neighbors and across the street onto a church’s property. What a dick!
And at our previous house, our neighbors had a tree w/ distinctive yellow leaves (basswood?) on the side of their house away from us. Its branches overhung and dropped leaves on the next neighbor’s property. One day I saw the old lady out with a rake, furiously raking the yellow leaves across the property line! Made me laugh, to think of people saying they would only clean up leaves that came from trees on their own property! 