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I also checked out Tokyo, another city around the size of NYC. Tokyo is even cleaner and prettier than London. Sorry, but I toured almost all of NYC, going down street after street, and it all looks pretty grimey and worn out. I have also seen a lot of pictures of NYC too, and it shows me the same. The subways look like old convenience store restrooms with tracks running through it.
Really no excuse for America's largest city to be that filthy.
I also checked out Tokyo, another city around the size of NYC. Tokyo is even cleaner and prettier than London. Sorry, but I toured almost all of NYC, going down street after street, and it all looks pretty grimey and worn out. I have also seen a lot of pictures of NYC too, and it shows me the same. The subways look like old convenience store restrooms with tracks running through it.
Really no excuse for America's largest city to be that filthy.
Might help for you to know when those pics update...I use Google Maps quite a bit and can tell you much of what I see hasn't updated in years.
You really think Tokyo looks like it does in the pics on Google today?
New york is twice as dense as London and nearly twice that of Tokyo. You really think the city is going to look spotless all the time? Also, it's much cleaner now than it used to be and I am hardly ever bothered by trash anymore. It's certainly better than other cities I've been in
What's with the stupid influx of slanderous threads lately? Has there always been this much complainers here? Similar to what you said... Sorry, but no one here is going to miss you if you don't ever come... Especially based on some pics you saw on google earth. New York has a vast array of things to offer... More than you can probably ever see in a lifetime. But if you want to be superficial and base your whole opinion of this place on a website then go ahead... you're going to the one missing out
Google Streetview and Maps updated last year in most of the Northeast. All the Major Cities got New HD shots in most of the city , the rest of the Region will be HD'd by 2013. Tokyo was redone last year....but don't judge a city by the Internet you have to visit it....sure this region / NYC has some bad spots but its safe to say every city does.
reminds me of my German friend visiting me over Christmas in London and he kept bitching that London is so filthy and dirty till at last I couldn't stand a broken record being rewinded and replayed again and again I told him:" so what? that doesn't change the clueless and helpless bordom there in Germany..you don't know I am working here in London just becos it's furious and filthy?" Does this help as some caption of your armchair google research?
Google Streetview and Maps updated last year in most of the Northeast. All the Major Cities got New HD shots in most of the city , the rest of the Region will be HD'd by 2013. Tokyo was redone last year....but don't judge a city by the Internet you have to visit it....sure this region / NYC has some bad spots but its safe to say every city does.
The city does need to do a better job paving streets, handling litter (well people need to stop being such animals), and building owners need to do a better job maintaining their facades
However, judging a city from google street view is ridiculous and unless you've spent dozens of hours on this thing, it's impossible to get a full grasp of any large city. Especially NY where there are so many different types of neighborhoods, and streets go from picturesque to ghetto in the span of a few blocks.
Google maps allows you to go down the streets like you are actually walking or driving down them. They have been recently updated as a user said too. I have also had people who have visited the NYC tell me it is a very dirty town. In contrast, the people who have also visited London and Tokyo have great things to say about it. They say their subways are also very clean(especially Tokyo's). I have seen most of the pics of the NYC subway stations and they look like a dirty restroom at some hole in the wall joint. Even their above ground subways look rotten and dirty. Also NYC has a large population of illegal aliens, which also add a great deal to the filth.
Also the buildings and subways in NYC look very worn out, old, and not taken care of. London does a very good job or preserving their old buildings. Same with Tokyo and Paris and many other European and Asian cities.
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