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What cities give off a sort of reputation for being clean but are actually quite dirty?
I mean, like what cities have you been to thinking and expecting it to be cleaner than it actually was? By that I mean a city that's not known for being dirty or it being dirty doesn't come up in an inquiry but going there and seeing it is a total shock of how it could be omitted?
Before I saw San Francisco the first time, I had seen pictures of the scenery and all of that and saw it on Full House growing up and it always seemed spec and span, clean, in those but when I went the first time I was floored with how much dirtier the city was than what I imagined it to be. Each time I go now, I know what to expect and it doesn't detract anything from San Francisco, which is still a great city but I didn't see it coming.
Houston's another one, you would think for a sunbelt city that it would be clean or whatever like the way Dallas, Phoenix, and Miami are but it's actually quite dirty and surprisingly very gritty too.
Anyone else have any experiences like that with another city or possibly the same one, or something?
I was under the impression SF had a reputation for being quite dirty. Also thought LA had a reputation for being dirty too.
A lot of people say San Diego is clean but I don't think so, maybe cleaner than a decent amount of cities but I wouldn't call it "clean". Lots of trash on the sides of freeways and on-ramps imo. Not saying it's "quite dirty" but at least more so than what impression people seem to have of it.
What cities give off a sort of reputation for being clean but are actually quite dirty?
I mean, like what cities have you been to thinking and expecting it to be cleaner than it actually was? By that I mean a city that's not known for being dirty or it being dirty doesn't come up in an inquiry but going there and seeing it is a total shock of how it could be omitted?
Before I saw San Francisco the first time, I had seen pictures of the scenery and all of that and saw it on Full House growing up and it always seemed spec and span, clean, in those but when I went the first time I was floored with how much dirtier the city was than what I imagined it to be. Each time I go now, I know what to expect and it doesn't detract anything from San Francisco, which is still a great city but I didn't see it coming.
Houston's another one, you would think for a sunbelt city that it would be clean or whatever like the way Dallas, Phoenix, and Miami are but it's actually quite dirty and surprisingly very gritty too.
Anyone else have any experiences like that with another city or possibly the same one, or something?
I knew about Houston's grit.
Speaking of sunbelt: Sorry Atlanta. I don't know if Atlanta has a reputation for being clean. However, the amount of filth here disgusts me. Trash scattered about in a treeline is not a good look.
I wonder if I'll ever get used to the practice of putting the trash out front. I encountered this initially in Memphis. It's a bad look. Unbeknownst to me at the time, every city does not have alleyways.
What cities give off a sort of reputation for being clean but are actually quite dirty?
I mean, like what cities have you been to thinking and expecting it to be cleaner than it actually was? By that I mean a city that's not known for being dirty or it being dirty doesn't come up in an inquiry but going there and seeing it is a total shock of how it could be omitted?
Before I saw San Francisco the first time, I had seen pictures of the scenery and all of that and saw it on Full House growing up and it always seemed spec and span, clean, in those but when I went the first time I was floored with how much dirtier the city was than what I imagined it to be. Each time I go now, I know what to expect and it doesn't detract anything from San Francisco, which is still a great city but I didn't see it coming.
Houston's another one, you would think for a sunbelt city that it would be clean or whatever like the way Dallas, Phoenix, and Miami are but it's actually quite dirty and surprisingly very gritty too.
Anyone else have any experiences like that with another city or possibly the same one, or something?
San Francisco and New York are two cities who have reputations for being clean cities, but unfortunatley SF is one of the grittier dirtier ciities I have visited, (with unshowered homeless people and uncombed dogs (, and New York with a lack of alleys and rotten food smell from the garbage on the curbs.
There are other cities that aren't exactly clean, but their reputation isn't "wow, what a clean city" either.
Everyone always views San Francisco as being clean but it's dirty. Same with Los Angeles.
Miami can get pretty dirty too.
Miami Named Cleanest City in America
While this is 5 years old, it's pretty accurate in my book. Miami, for all its faults, is not a dirty city.
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, and New York with a lack of alleys and rotten food smell from the garbage on the curbs. 
