Most unclean city you have visited during your travels

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Anonymous wrote:San Francisco. Never been in a city where I saw so much human excrement as that. I saw a PP mention Naples. I lived there for 2 years. It had its trash piles, but not really that bad. San Francisco grossed me out.

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Anonymous wrote:India is a country. Name the city that was dirtiest there.

Yes.

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Anonymous wrote:Annandale

LOL!

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:India is a country. Name the city that was dirtiest there.

Yes.

Lol. Agree.

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Johor Bahru.

Quite the shock coming from pristine Singapore.

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Anonymous wrote:New Orleans most especially after Mardi Gras. The stench makes me so sick.

I lived there for several years. We all had "Quarter shoes." Meaning that if you are going down to the French Quarter, by no means do you wear shoes you actually care about -- you will for sure be stepping in urine, and most likely something worse as well, if you so much as traverse a sidewalk for a moment.

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Anonymous wrote:India - but I haven't been to China or Southeast Asia.

In Europe - Naples was probably the grossest, but that might have been because Paris wasn't going thru some sort of strike at the time.

But in the US? San Francisco or NYC. There is just something grungy about SF, even 20 years ago. I think the lack of rain or sunshine just keeps everything grimy.

Post 80s and Pre-COVID, DC has always seemed like the cleanest big(ish) city in the US, however.

I've been to both India and Vietnam. India was dirtier, especially Delhi (Agra and Jaipur were pretty bad as well, but I don't think Mumbai was as bad). Vietnam only struck me as dirty in certain parts of Hanoi (the electrical wires hanging everywhere and the traffic are separate issues, lol), everywhere else was quite clean (and there is no trash anywhere because people find another use for everything -- that plastic yogurt cup? Not trash).

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Anonymous wrote:Annandale

lol

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Anonymous wrote:San Francisco. Never been in a city where I saw so much human excrement as that. I saw a PP mention Naples. I lived there for 2 years. It had its trash piles, but not really that bad. San Francisco grossed me out.

This is heartbreaking. I remember how 25 years ago San Francisco was a jewel.

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Anonymous wrote:San Francisco. Never been in a city where I saw so much human excrement as that. I saw a PP mention Naples. I lived there for 2 years. It had its trash piles, but not really that bad. San Francisco grossed me out.

This is heartbreaking. I remember how 25 years ago San Francisco was a jewel.

Well, 150 years ago San Francisco was sort of famous for the number of civil war veterans with opium addictions. I think opium/morphine addiction was even referred to as San Francisco disease.
And it certainly had its issues in the 1960s-1980s too. I remember walking around even in the early 90s and everyone assumed I was a runaway because there were still so many runaways in certain parts of SF, mostly sitting on the streets doing drugs and engaging in sex trade.
25 years ago was right before to dot com bubble so SF may have been artificially inflated at that point.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:India.

Paris

Rome

Lisbon

Hospital-grade sterile compared to India.

India is a country. You need to go back to school.

We understand that. The reason so many respondents are saying "India" - when they are aware India isn't a city - is because India is that unclean.

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Anonymous wrote:San Francisco. Never been in a city where I saw so much human excrement as that. I saw a PP mention Naples. I lived there for 2 years. It had its trash piles, but not really that bad. San Francisco grossed me out.

This is heartbreaking. I remember how 25 years ago San Francisco was a jewel.

It still is a shockingly beautiful place, almost surreally so. But I've traveled many places and there's only two cities in the world where someone has crapped on the sidewalk right in front of me: NYC and SF.

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Anonymous wrote:The other thread about which city you absolutely hate prompted this thread.

Tell me which city was the most unclean one you have visited.

I will go first - Lisbon, especially parts of Chiado

Venice.

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I would find a thread on what is the cleanest city you've ever been in so much more interesting than this. I've been to many of the cities mentioned thus far. Some I agree can be pretty dirty. Some are dirty in parts and pristine in others. And cities are dirty in different ways. I find the human poop dirtiness far and away the most revolting, but don't want to go into which cities I've found to be worst in this respect (they have already been mentioned here) but that's distinct from a city with bad air pollution or poor garbage maintenance.

The cleanest cities I've ever been in have all been in Scandinavia. My spouse and I have discussed trying to live there for some extended period after we retire (whatever we could make work with visas) and honestly my only reticence is that it would ruin me for when we come back.

I've heard Singapore is very clean but I've never been.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:San Francisco. Never been in a city where I saw so much human excrement as that. I saw a PP mention Naples. I lived there for 2 years. It had its trash piles, but not really that bad. San Francisco grossed me out.

This is heartbreaking. I remember how 25 years ago San Francisco was a jewel.

It still is a shockingly beautiful place, almost surreally so. But I've traveled many places and there's only two cities in the world where someone has crapped on the sidewalk right in front of me: NYC and SF.

I had that happen in DC.