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What they perhaps didn't see is that the US has a higher rate of personal car ownership. People don't like to walk over garbage, but they don't mind driving ove
by danans 8y ago
What they perhaps didn't see is that the US has a higher rate of personal car ownership. People don't like to walk over garbage, but they don't mind driving over it to an extent. The areas with trash are the ones where people of means drive and the walkers are mostly poor, like freeway underpasses.
- adrianN 8y agoYou're right that freeway underpasses are particularly egregious but I found almost of SF to be pretty dirty compared to German (or Japanese!) standards. The incredible number of homeless people is also really shocking for visitors.
- de_watcher 8y agoYes, it's all about the Gini index - the amount of inequality in the society.
- dilyevsky 8y agoIt’s not just rubbish. Half of sf looks like an active war zone. And lots of ppl don’t even own a car there.
- redisman 8y agoSF is one of the more walkable cities though. And its streets flow with urine and garbage