Is neighborhood litter a crazy reason to want to move?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

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.

It’ll never get better. When you finally move to a clean neighborhood you’ll wish you had done it sooner. Nobody cares about your efforts right now. It’s a losing battle and a waste of life. Let the pigs steep in their filth.

This. And once it starts, it's next to impossible to turn around. Our former DC neighborhood started going downhill with the pandemic. Our beautiful, safe neighborhood was suddenly a bastion of crime and litter. It never improved, so we moved due to crime, declining schools, and other DC City Council insanity.

The litter is disgusting, but it's really a symptom of other problems. Let the people who voted for this filth live in it.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Ugh, commuting this morning I watched someone toss a banana peel out the window onto the street. Mercedes with VA plates. Some people just weren't raised right, money or not.

Ignorant people truly believe littering fruit trash is permitted. They think animals quickly eat it or it magically biodegrades. I kid you not. Apples, bananas, orange peels.

This is true. Plenty of people will litter fruit or food and nothing more. Idk why.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

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.

It’ll never get better. When you finally move to a clean neighborhood you’ll wish you had done it sooner. Nobody cares about your efforts right now. It’s a losing battle and a waste of life. Let the pigs steep in their filth.

This. And once it starts, it's next to impossible to turn around. Our former DC neighborhood started going downhill with the pandemic. Our beautiful, safe neighborhood was suddenly a bastion of crime and litter. It never improved, so we moved due to crime, declining schools, and other DC City Council insanity.

The litter is disgusting, but it's really a symptom of other problems. Let the people who voted for this filth live in it.

I used to llive in Parkview and saw litter get worse after 2015 or so. The real culprit was that many middle class (black) families moved out and their homes were converted to group houses for (mostly white) 20-something’s. The new renters never cut the grass, had zero interest in their neighbors, and basically let the block slide downhill. It was an interesting dynamic.