The last neighborhood I played in Sims 2 was Veronaville, so, oh, boy, do I remember those hedges! Oftentimes the gardener left before she was finished with everything. Fortunately influence points aren't hard to come by, so my snobs usually persuaded a visitor to do the rest. Or put their disbehaving teens to the task.
I wish we had more chores in Sims 4, especially lawnmowing and sweeping/vacuuming the floor. I have the stage marks in some rooms to fake floor scrubbing, but then the sims accumulate acting skill points.
That's another ting I miss: the cleaning skill that is unrelated to traits. Irl I'm a slob, meaning I do not care much about my surroundings, but when I finally pick up a cleaning cloth I'm very good at cleaning. Or to the contrary we could have a sim who is neat, but isn't interested in learning how to clean (rich parents, servants, household robots, whatever) and thus fails at it when he tries because his skill is still low.
