Nobody there uses salt? If the temps are just below freezing, a few handfuls of coarse salt will melt the ice while you wait. In Canada we also throw down some jaggedy gravel to create some traction. None of this works below about -5C for obvious chemical reasons, but it's the shiznitz in the intervening temperatures.
I don't think any of my neighbours used salt. I did, but not on the night that they said would get too cold for NaCl to work (that being the only salt I've got handy ... and I don't know off the top of my head how cold CaCl will work).
The city uses salt. The state uses salt. Merchants use salt in front of their stores. People in better neighbourhoods (or in the better half of my neighbourhood, IIRC) use salt. Someone who isn't willing to clear half a foot of snow down to a level that salt will help with probably doesn't care enough to buy salt.
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The city uses salt. The state uses salt. Merchants use salt in front of their stores. People in better neighbourhoods (or in the better half of my neighbourhood, IIRC) use salt. Someone who isn't willing to clear half a foot of snow down to a level that salt will help with probably doesn't care enough to buy salt.