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I have the misfortune of living in a town where many people treat the roadsides, ditches, parking lots, and vacant property as trash dumps for anything and everything. I do what I can to pick up trash, but it seems there needs to be a thousand others doing the same. Yes, we have garbage pickup twice a week for residences, but littering seems to be a cultural thing. Even some wealthy people live like slobs. There are businesses with filthy restrooms, trashy parking lots, and filthy interiors and the owners won't do a thing to clean them up! Complaining doesn't seem to help.
Both my parents believed in keeping our home clean and neat. Even though Mom is in her seventies, she still cleans house every day. We are far from being wealthy. Just because people are poor or poorly educated, should that excuse people from being slobs?
I have the misfortune of living in a town where many people treat the roadsides, ditches, parking lots, and vacant property as trash dumps for anything and everything. I do what I can to pick up trash, but it seems there needs to be a thousand others doing the same. Yes, we have garbage pickup twice a week for residences, but littering seems to be a cultural thing. Even some wealthy people live like slobs. There are businesses with filthy restrooms, trashy parking lots, and filthy interiors and the owners won't do a thing to clean them up! Complaining doesn't seem to help.
Both my parents believed in keeping our home clean and neat. Even though Mom is in her seventies, she still cleans house every day. We are far from being wealthy. Just because people are poor or poorly educated, should that excuse people from being slobs?
My town for the most part is clean, though it can get very messy the night before Halloween with kids chucking toilet paper rolls on the trees. Friday's can be disastrous too because the garbage men around here tend to leave the empty bins on the edge of people's driveways or on the edge of curbs and the wind ends up pushing them into the roads. Other than that, I can't complain too much. Roads are cleaned and potholes are filled regularly.
I'm right there with you on keeping up the house. I figure it this way: once it's done, there's more incentive to maintain it. A clean house keeps stress down and then you have more time to enjoy the finer things in life.
I lived in Philadelphia for eight years and found it filthy in that respect. Many seem to like living that way and would be stunned watching people toss whatever was in their hand on the ground the second they were finished with it, despite being 50 feet from a trash receptacle. I lived in a rapidly gentrifying neighborhood where the original residents would sit around watching as I or one of a select few on the block would spend an hour sweeping up debris (an entire 30 gallon trash can would be filled in one block) only to have it swirling around again within a day or two. I so don't miss that.
Trash blowing down the street is bad enough but when there are weeds 10 feet tall growing thru the sidewalks...well it just makes a fellow itch something fierce.
It's pretty clean where I live but when I travel closer to downtown Austin some areas are just plain terrible. Not to mention all the able bodied people begging on the corners or dancing loonies.
I live in a nice near-downtown neighborhood, but it's close to some bars (well, everywhere in Milwaukee is CLOSE TO some bars) and I often find baloney sandwiches, shoes, vomit, and lots of broken glass on the street/sidewalk/porch, especially on weekends. It is one thing I will not miss when I move out of town later this year.
I lived in Philadelphia for eight years and found it filthy in that respect. Many seem to like living that way and would be stunned watching people toss whatever was in their hand on the ground the second they were finished with it, despite being 50 feet from a trash receptacle. I lived in a rapidly gentrifying neighborhood where the original residents would sit around watching as I or one of a select few on the block would spend an hour sweeping up debris (an entire 30 gallon trash can would be filled in one block) only to have it swirling around again within a day or two. I so don't miss that.
No. For al long time, Texas had the reputation of being the most littered state. Today, I think Texans are pretty pound of the fact that the "Don't Mess With Texas" anti-littering campaign really worked
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