Most unclean city you have visited during your travels

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NYC and New Orleans

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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.

In DC ours at least have enough since to squat over a metro trash can. Because of course that happened right in front of me

I am haunted by once getting stuck in traffic in DC and winding up near the entrance to an alley where a man was taking an enormous poop right behind a restaurant for like 5 full minutes (through like three light cycles at this light I was not getting through). I was working really hard to look anywhere else but I was there forever and he was right that next to me.

I avoid that intersection now, even though it's actually in one of the nicer parts of DC. Obviously do not go to that restaurant. I am sorry that man felt that was his only option but also pooping in an alley is one of the most revolting possible things, cities that figure out how to prevent that from happening are good.

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Alexandria Egypt

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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

I thought Lisbon was clean when I was there and I’ve traveled the world

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Guayaquil, Ecuador. Granted, it had suffered a flooding event in recent months.

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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.

I had that happen in DC.

Many times. At one point I was taking a bus to work and about 3x out of 10, there would be human excrement inside the bus shelter. It was so foul.

I have also seen human feces inside metro stations and just out on the street.

It makes me want to move to Antarctica or something.

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India has to win this and it’s not close.

However, parts of Egypt are also disgusting.

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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.

As an Indian I take offense to that. All these posters mentioning India don't even know which city they visited? The title says "most unclean city" not country.

It was said with levity. We understand what cities we visited. We understand India is not a city. Since this is so not understood by DCUM, write this into a sworn affidavit and I'll sign it for all of you.

Since you need cities: Agra if unclean means raw sewage; Varanasi if unclean means bloated corpses dragged from a river by dogs.

I also wonder why no one mentions Pakistan, Bangladesh, Srilanka - the neighboring countries.

The title says "most unclean city" not country. Right? Those are not cities? Right?

But I understand you know this, and your were communicating something else, because I'm not being obtuse.

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Anonymous wrote:India.

Unfortunately.

And I am an Indian, who loves most things about India.

But the pollution, terrible infrastructure, corruption and trash is another level.

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

The number of people in this thread who cannot read. Smh.

People are trying to tell you that there is no winner (well loser) among them. The whole place is dirty. Every city, small town and street. All dirty.

+1 and we love India. Seriously. Love it.

How do you answer "which is the most tone deaf DCUM respondent saying 'India is a country.'"? It's all of them. All. They all cross the 'tone deaf' finish line at the same time.

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Anonymous wrote:Athens, Greece was the worst in Europe. I think they were having a trash strike but it sounded like it happened a lot. Trash piled sky high every where. Higher than cars.

I’ve been all over central and South America. Some places were poor but it was obvious the residents took pride in their cities and cleaned.

Op. Why is it that the big cities are always unclean? We stayed at a $350/night Holiday inn express in Manhattan (budget constraints) and the street was a dump. Thankfully the room was clean.

Is this a real question? It's obviously because there is a very high population density in a relatively compressed space. You couldn't figure that out yourself?

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Anonymous wrote:Marseille

Dog poop and spit everywhere, wanted to turn the city on it side and hose its streets and sidewalk down to give it a good rinse.

Op. I saw local people spitting on the sidewalk in Lisbon and was shocked.

And the smell of cigarettes and the amount of cigarette butts on the ground - it was unthinkable. Don't they know it causes cancer?

Did you just fall off the turnip truck? This wide-eyed naivete isn't attractive in an adult.

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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.

As an Indian I take offense to that. All these posters mentioning India don't even know which city they visited? The title says "most unclean city" not country.

I also wonder why no one mentions Pakistan, Bangladesh, Srilanka - the neighboring countries.

I would guess it's because fewer people have been to these places. I have been to Sri Lanka and Bangladesh. I thought Sri Lanka's cities were generally cleaner than India's, but Dhaka in Bangladesh gets my vote for dirtiest city. I don't fault it, however, it's such a desperately poor country. I was more concerned with all the beggars missing limbs on the street. I was 18 when I visited and it was truly eye-opening for a Midwest girl.

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

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We need to enforce vagrancy and drug laws with prison time

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I’ve visited poorer African countries and they were largely tidy not clean but not filthy. Look like they made some type of effort. Definitely didn’t see corpses in the streets.