Do you find as a tourist Paris clean or dirty ? (places, people)

[uncut]

I thought it was clean compared to Stockholm.

[internat]

I visited Vienna (Austria) quite recently and I found it to be very clean. Where have you been except Paris and how would you rate their cleanliness? I find cleanliness very important. I look forward to your reply. Thanks.

Originally Posted by moving123456

I thought that Paris was the dirtiest European city that I have ever visited.

[Lakewooder]

Try Marsellies and Torino!

[Visvaldis]

Paris is clean considering the huge population. The city parks are not littered with fast food wrappers and plastic bottles. Also, hardly any glass from broken bottles.

[chrismpv]

I just got back 28apr08 and I found it clean in general. I went through an area following their local market and it was pretty messy. Vendors were leaving a lot of stuff on the street.

The only thing to remember is that they do not require resident to use a "pooper-scooper" so watch your steps.

[Doc. T.]

Originally Posted by pigeonhole

Do you find as a tourist Paris clean or dirty ?

Unequivocally, clean!

[JMT]

I am always amazed when Americans come back from Paris and say that it's a dirty city. Please, compared to an American city Paris is squeaky clean!! It's a city of 2.2 million people crammed into 90 square kilometers (36 square miles). That's 25,000 people per square kilometer. NYC, by contrast, has 11,000 people per square kilometer. And Paris is waayyy cleaner than NYC.

In addition, Paris is OLD. Many Americans think old = dirty.

Paris is the size of London, and I consider Paris to be the cleaner city. In fact, among Europe's BIG cities (London, Paris, Berlin, Rome, Madrid, Moscow) I think Paris is the cleanest.

Disclaimer: I am part French, so I am definitely biased. However, I've lived in 6 countries on 3 continents and have visited over 30 countries on 4 continents, so I do think I'm being fair with my comparisons.

[Lily87]

I found it pretty clean, compared to Rome, London or Frankfurt.

[CLS63]

It's always so conflicting,

50% of people tell me Paris is "sooo dirty"

and the other 50% tell me that Paris is clean.

I never understood this! Is dirt in the eye of the beholder?

To me, Central Paris is clean (as far as cities go) just like Manhattan is clean. The tourist places are well-kept. I don't know why anyone would decide where to travel based on the cleanliness? No offense, but unless you're going to some slum in India that's the dumbest thing I've heard someone base their vacation off of.

If you want squeaky clean, avoid all cities. But you're missing out on life because the worlds best cities aren't clean. It's impossible given the amount of people who pass through and reside in cities. If you want clean, head to a countryside.

[caseras]

I live in Paris and I have to say I find the city dirty when I compare Paris to the cities in the north (Rennes, Nantes, Caen) and I find it clean when I compare to the cities in the south of France (Marseille, Toulouse, Bordeaux).

I saw a lot of cities in the world, and never seen any city cleaner than Paris for this size. Compared to other cities in the world it's quite good but still far to be perfect.

PS : Australia is not cleaner actually the cities are very far to have the same size. Sydney is a dwarf compared to Paris.