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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.

New Yorkers know that the area the Holiday Inn Express is in (west of Times Square) is a chaotic tourist hub. Whenever I pass by I always see homeless people parked in the front entrance of that hotel. And $350/night for that hotel is a total rip off. It's usually $200. Sorry about your experience, but you just picked a bad part of the city, unfortunately.

Newark, NJ

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.

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Anonymous wrote:Istanbul, but I'm not hugely well traveled.

I am surprised at this. I was there last in 2019 and remember being amazed at how clean it was. Not a piece of paper or litter in the streets.

Agree. It’s a clean city compared to many cities around the world.

I loved Istanbul and thought it was clean (although not clean like Sweden or Germany- those women scrub nonstop!) It was a city I’d love to return to again and the food was spectacular. The people were nice too. We traveled all over Turkey.

As an American our cities get fixed, repaired and cleaned a lot more than is normal in other countries (particularly in the suburbs). crumbling sidewalks like France or Italy have aren’t as common. It’s not an age thing either since it’s not like their sidewalks were hundred of years old. We’re a big place and there’s lots of nasty US cities too though. NYC always smells like trash in the summer and New Orleans like piss.

Nyc

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.

India as a country!

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Anonymous wrote:Istanbul, but I'm not hugely well traveled.

I am surprised at this. I was there last in 2019 and remember being amazed at how clean it was. Not a piece of paper or litter in the streets.

Agree. It’s a clean city compared to many cities around the world.

Paris looked like trash company went on strike, and they did lol

Many parts of NYC.

India and Paris for sure.

Anonymous wrote:Istanbul, but I'm not hugely well traveled.

I am surprised at this. I was there last in 2019 and remember being amazed at how clean it was. Not a piece of paper or litter in the streets.

Anonymous wrote:Paris

Anonymous wrote:In the US we visited Cincinnati several times and started calling it CincinnNASTY.

Why? Explain please. I have never been there.