Is neighborhood litter a crazy reason to want to move?

[Anonymous]

I don't know why but litter in my neighborhood drives me insane. I can't recall my parents ever caring or making me do cleanups or anything. But I can't ignore it in our neighborhood. Plastic water and soda bottles, fast food bags, liquor containers, cans of beer, blunt and chip bags. We clean up the couple blocks around our home every weekend morning while walking the dogs. By Tuesday or Wednesday you can't even tell. I've never seen another neighbor get off their butt and help.

At our prior house, I would maybe encounter a single water bottle or two once a week. That was literally it.

I love our current house but I can't stand the litter. I'm fed up.

[Anonymous]

I go through the same thing. My house is on the corner across from the rec center and there is not only trash all around my house but they also throw trash in my yard. Every weekend when I'm cleaning it up, I'm saying to myself "I Hate these people, I hate these people". I have no real intention on moving, but I'm so over it! I'm hoping to outlast them. BTW, I say it about dog owners too, who refuse to pick up after their dogs. Nasty!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I don't know why but litter in my neighborhood drives me insane. I can't recall my parents ever caring or making me do cleanups or anything. But I can't ignore it in our neighborhood. Plastic water and soda bottles, fast food bags, liquor containers, cans of beer, blunt and chip bags. We clean up the couple blocks around our home every weekend morning while walking the dogs. By Tuesday or Wednesday you can't even tell. I've never seen another neighbor get off their butt and help.

At our prior house, I would maybe encounter a single water bottle or two once a week. That was literally it.

I love our current house but I can't stand the litter. I'm fed up.

Not crazy at all - I would move.

[Anonymous]

I cleaned up our block regularly when I lived in the city. Now that we're in the boring burbs, it's a non-issue.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I cleaned up our block regularly when I lived in the city. Now that we're in the boring burbs, it's a non-issue.

Depends where you live in the city. NW DC is far cleaner than the rest. You don't see tons of litter in Kent.

[Anonymous]

I hate litter. I could never live somewhere where people litter. I’d move if you can.

[Anonymous]

Sometimes I think mentally ill trash drive by and see you cleaning up litter and it makes them want to throw more litter out of their windows to spite your efforts.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I hate litter. I could never live somewhere where people litter. I’d move if you can.

+1

[Anonymous]

I would move. Not because of the litter but because your neighbors are people that litter or your neighborhood is so full of transients and loitering.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I cleaned up our block regularly when I lived in the city. Now that we're in the boring burbs, it's a non-issue.

Depends where you live in the city. NW DC is far cleaner than the rest. You don't see tons of litter in Kent.

I was in NWDC, but the high-density part. I think you'll find it anyplace that's a mix of commercial/residential, no matter which quadrant.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I cleaned up our block regularly when I lived in the city. Now that we're in the boring burbs, it's a non-issue.

Depends where you live in the city. NW DC is far cleaner than the rest. You don't see tons of litter in Kent.

I was in NWDC, but the high-density part. I think you'll find it anyplace that's a mix of commercial/residential, no matter which quadrant.

No actually, you really don't. Huge swaths of Ward 3 and parts of Ward 2 that are a quick 2-3 block walk to commerce on Connecticut / Wisconsin / Mass do not have litter.

The strictly commercial sections _previously_ had no litter, either, but there has been a small uptick where there are buildings now comprised of formerly unhoused voucher recipients on bits of Conn. and Wisc. But still very little.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I cleaned up our block regularly when I lived in the city. Now that we're in the boring burbs, it's a non-issue.

Depends where you live in the city. NW DC is far cleaner than the rest. You don't see tons of litter in Kent.

I was in NWDC, but the high-density part. I think you'll find it anyplace that's a mix of commercial/residential, no matter which quadrant.

No actually, you really don't. Huge swaths of Ward 3 and parts of Ward 2 that are a quick 2-3 block walk to commerce on Connecticut / Wisconsin / Mass do not have litter.

The strictly commercial sections _previously_ had no litter, either, but there has been a small uptick where there are buildings now comprised of formerly unhoused voucher recipients on bits of Conn. and Wisc. But still very little.

+1

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I cleaned up our block regularly when I lived in the city. Now that we're in the boring burbs, it's a non-issue.

Depends where you live in the city. NW DC is far cleaner than the rest. You don't see tons of litter in Kent.

I was in NWDC, but the high-density part. I think you'll find it anyplace that's a mix of commercial/residential, no matter which quadrant.

No actually, you really don't. Huge swaths of Ward 3 and parts of Ward 2 that are a quick 2-3 block walk to commerce on Connecticut / Wisconsin / Mass do not have litter.

The strictly commercial sections _previously_ had no litter, either, but there has been a small uptick where there are buildings now comprised of formerly unhoused voucher recipients on bits of Conn. and Wisc. But still very little.

I think those commercial areas just have a lot of privately funded clean up. The stores pay for it because it’s important to their business. There may well also be less litter there than other areas, but I think any public commercial zone that seems really clean is getting cleaned a lot. Litter picked up, sidewalks washed, etc.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I would move. Not because of the litter but because your neighbors are people that litter or your neighborhood is so full of transients and loitering.

It's more this for me. We currently live in a place with a lot of litter and this is what gets me -- people just have so little care or respect for their surroundings that they throw trash on the ground everywhere. I just don't understand it.

Throwing away trash in an appropriate place is such an easy and small way to make the world a little nicer. The fact that some of my neighbors (and the people who come through our neighborhood but don't live there) don't even bother just makes me wonder what else they don't care about.

Also I am tired of going out every morning and collecting trash from the sidewalk and gutter and sometimes even our front yard. It's daily. I could spend that time with my kids or doing Duo Lingo or stretching or cuddling with the cat or reading a book. All because selfish people can't be bothered.

I can't wait to move.

[Anonymous]

Nasty. Next thing you know there are needles on the street and liquor bottles.