Most unclean city you have visited during your travels

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Anonymous wrote:Any major city in India, but to be fair to them there isn't really a system of trash collection. I distinctly remember walking Kolkata when a fish market put trash out in piles on the street. Viscerally one of the most awful experiences of my life. Guy was getting his face shaved right next to that.

Actually the ghats (public baths on the river) in Kolkata were also absolutely disgusting. Kolkata is a beautiful city, but woof those two experiences were just so bad.

My parents are from Kolkata and I used to go there yearly as a kid. I think it’s the worst of the major Indian cities, cleanliness wise, by far.

But Kolkata is such an interesting city. It is a theater of life with all the good and bad.

Absolutely filthy though.

For various reasons, India does not do communal spaces well. Caste being the biggest one. Corruption being the secondary reason. But, by and large, Indians do not give a f about the poor. And it's a gigantic country that has normalized a level of misery you don't see anywhere else.

Still liked Kolkata. And Mumbai, Kochi, Darjeeling, Varanasi, Udaipur, Madurai, Bikaner and so on. But I absolutely despised Delhi and Agra. There's a cruelty there that's a little different. Dark places.

Why did you despise Delhi and Agra?

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Anonymous wrote:India.

Paris

Rome

Lisbon

Hospital-grade sterile compared to India.

😆😆😆 don’t all these dirty cities have a bunch of Indians in them? Import Indians, get India. What exactly did they expect

Several articles about Toronto complaining about this very thing. Read the room. Don't import bad / dirty habits.

Yes. I also saw Canadians upset that they don’t wait politely in lines but rush and crowd things

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Anonymous wrote:Liberal cities need to consult Singapore to fix the homeless and drug problem

The reason Singapore is so clean is that they import foreign workers from places like India and Bangladesh to be professional street cleaners. It is a huge issue when the cleaners aren’t available in an estate (neighborhood) and everyone can see how much trash and nastiness the cleaners take care of each day.

The social safety net is also quite robust. And there are a lot of well-enforced rules and taxes.

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Anonymous wrote:Liberal cities need to consult Singapore to fix the homeless and drug problem

The reason Singapore is so clean is that they import foreign workers from places like India and Bangladesh to be professional street cleaners. It is a huge issue when the cleaners aren’t available in an estate (neighborhood) and everyone can see how much trash and nastiness the cleaners take care of each day.

The social safety net is also quite robust. And there are a lot of well-enforced rules and taxes.

I'm an expat and have lived in Singapore for the past few years, and the ONLY part of Singapore where I have EVER seen "trash and nastiness" is Little India. The people who live there seem to have looked around at the rest of Singapore, noted the clean streets and green, lush grassy areas and public spaces, then collectively decided to reject standards of cleanliness en masse. After a festival or weekend night it's a mess. It's baffling to me that people would decide to live that way when everywhere else in Singapore is so pristine.

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Miami
All of India
San Francisco
Punta Cana
Lisbon

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Anonymous wrote:People who say they haven't been to China, it is actually ridiculously clean. And those who say Southeast Asia, have you been to Singapore? You get whipped for spitting out gum on the street.

LOL. You clearly have only visited the Chinese tourist cities. The “smaller” ones (still the population of nyc) are absolutely deplorable. I may grant that India is worse but most China towns and cities are absolutely right up there.

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Anonymous wrote:Miami
All of India
San Francisco
Punta Cana
Lisbon

I didn’t find Miami or San Francisco that bad. I actually found Miami, for a big city, clean enough. That said, I can’t stand Miami. Sketchy as heck and South Beach is so overrated IMHO.

San Francisco has a couple dicey neighborhoods, that are not clean, but as a whole, I didn’t find it too bad. Not nearly as bad as the apocalyptic descriptions on Fox News!

Domestically, dirtiest cities I have been to are Portland, Oregon and New Orleans. Portland was just sad. So many homeless and so many with substance and/or mental health issues. We should be able to do better by these people. New Orleans probably takes the crown. Walk Bourbon Street in the morning and it’s pretty filthy and smells too. Every morning NOLA does a good job of sweeping the street, and the process repeats.

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Seoul was clean, but when I was there, the first three days of my visit had winds bringing filthy particle matter from Chinese factories. Without a mask, the stuff got in your lungs. The air was terrible to look at and hard to breathe. When the winds shifted, skies cleared up and air was great.

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I'll put in another vote for Delhi. I thought it was worse than other Indian cities, but, they were terrible too. I'll throw in Lagos, Nigeria.

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Anonymous wrote:Any major city in India, but to be fair to them there isn't really a system of trash collection. I distinctly remember walking Kolkata when a fish market put trash out in piles on the street. Viscerally one of the most awful experiences of my life. Guy was getting his face shaved right next to that.

Actually the ghats (public baths on the river) in Kolkata were also absolutely disgusting. Kolkata is a beautiful city, but woof those two experiences were just so bad.

My parents are from Kolkata and I used to go there yearly as a kid. I think it’s the worst of the major Indian cities, cleanliness wise, by far.

But Kolkata is such an interesting city. It is a theater of life with all the good and bad.

Absolutely filthy though.

For various reasons, India does not do communal spaces well. Caste being the biggest one. Corruption being the secondary reason. But, by and large, Indians do not give a f about the poor. And it's a gigantic country that has normalized a level of misery you don't see anywhere else.

Still liked Kolkata. And Mumbai, Kochi, Darjeeling, Varanasi, Udaipur, Madurai, Bikaner and so on. But I absolutely despised Delhi and Agra. There's a cruelty there that's a little different. Dark places.

I think this is a fair assessment of Indian cities. Too much poverty, and they just don't care about communal spaces.

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Never been to India. My answer is Paris.

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Papeete, Tahiti

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Anonymous wrote:Seoul was clean, but when I was there, the first three days of my visit had winds bringing filthy particle matter from Chinese factories. Without a mask, the stuff got in your lungs. The air was terrible to look at and hard to breathe. When the winds shifted, skies cleared up and air was great.

I was in Pusan in the late 90s. One afternoon my husband and I got caught in a rainstorm while out running errands. It was the first and only time I discovered that acid rain is real. The rash/blisters we got on exposed skin were awful.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Papeete, Tahiti

I don’t remember it being dirty.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Liberal cities need to consult Singapore to fix the homeless and drug problem

The reason Singapore is so clean is that they import foreign workers from places like India and Bangladesh to be professional street cleaners. It is a huge issue when the cleaners aren’t available in an estate (neighborhood) and everyone can see how much trash and nastiness the cleaners take care of each day.

The social safety net is also quite robust. And there are a lot of well-enforced rules and taxes.

I'm an expat and have lived in Singapore for the past few years, and the ONLY part of Singapore where I have EVER seen "trash and nastiness" is Little India. The people who live there seem to have looked around at the rest of Singapore, noted the clean streets and green, lush grassy areas and public spaces, then collectively decided to reject standards of cleanliness en masse. After a festival or weekend night it's a mess. It's baffling to me that people would decide to live that way when everywhere else in Singapore is so pristine.

You need to head to Yishun when the people on Stomp are complaining about the cleaners slacking. It’s a different world from Orchard.