At our new home, no - our landlady has put grit down over the slight rise in the track and a major rise up to the stables and our front door seems to keep itself clear (I have no idea how, but I am guessing it is just very sheltered).
At our old home of 12 years, also sometimes - but it would be a small footpath from the car parking area (aka a field) to the house where over the patio it would form a sheet of ice in no time at all. But we also had a 1 mile dirt track to deal with and if we did not get the 4 wheel drive audi down the track before the snow froze we had the entire track to dig our by ourselves. We used to simply use the front of the car as a snowplough (!) and tow 2 people down the track with them sitting on a pallet holding it down. We rigged the pallet to be side ways (after the first failure), so the snow was forced off the track (rather than the people off the pallet by build up of snow) and the driver (usually me) had to ensure that we did not take the track too fast for the riders of said pallet (aka sledge) to stay on it. Then there was a small rise just before the track (gate left open if we were expecting snow) and if we had been really unlucky a snowplough would have been through which made a wall of solid ice which we would have to take pick axes to to break up before someone stood on the road, stopped the traffic or gave all clear, and the person driving just prayed they were right!
