Cleanest & dirtiest major cities in America? (comparison, places, smog)
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I guess we have posters looking at pictures and coming up with their opinions.
Chicago isn't dirty as a whole. Its constantly been recognized as one of the cleanest big cities.
New York and Philly are great cities but they dirty to a degree.
Memphis is dirty. Drive around the city a d you will see paper and you can tell the city hasn't been kept very well.
Dallas is cleaner than Memphis.
Houston is much dirtier than I expected for such a booming metro.
Atlanta is dirty. Nice new sky scrapers wide freeways you think your heading towards this clean modern metropolis and you get off downtown and its filthy!
Indianapolis is clean.
DC is clean.
Minneapolis Seattle and Denver are clean as expected.
You wanna know why that is?
Its because Harris County is the 3rd largest county in the United States & is roughly the size of the whole entire State of Colorado in population & is larger than the State of Rhode Island by land area. The resources to keep it all clean just isn't there.
No zoning laws also contribute to Houston's "unkept" appearance.
Los Angeles has the cleanest and most sophisticated cleanliness in all of america. Yes South LA and Hollywood Blvd are tacky, gritty and dirty however the rest of LA has improved and is very clean and safe. Downtown LA is surprisingly clean (if you avoid skid row obviously). The golden triangle (Beverly Hills, Bel-Air and Holmby Hills) are unbelievably clean you could lick your food of the ground and not have to worry, incredibly clean. If you want dirty Miami and NYC are the worst. Homeless people everywhere in New York especially the tourist areas rummaging through trash.
I live in Houston, and it is filthy. Garbage in the streets, construction debris, the city doesn't landscape much, etc. Then, you combine that with an ugly natural setting and boring architecture.
NYC is the dirtiest city in America, trust me I love NYC but if you walk on Broadway during summer it smells like pee, the homeless are everywhere literally there everywhere and smell very bad, there's trash allover the place and its lots of grit.
The list you've linked measures a different kind of "clean". They are talking about level of pollution. On this thread we are talking about roads, sidewalks, infrastructure, etc. Totally different.
Also, they are ranking metro areas, not cities, so it is a completely different unit of measurement than what we are talking about here as well.
Interesting list, though, just not that relevant to this conversation.
Denver and SLC are clean, Charlotte seems clean, but Phoenix? I don't think so. Maybe in Glendale near the university and the wealthier areas.
You don't think so? I've only been there once before and I didn't really have the impression it was dirty. It seemed new/clean to me.
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