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Reminds me of a comment I saw on HN a while ago about an American shocked that other countries have public toilets that aren't covered in shit, blood and needle
by baroffoos 7y ago
Reminds me of a comment I saw on HN a while ago about an American shocked that other countries have public toilets that aren't covered in shit, blood and needles. It seems like so many Americans are not even aware that the problems they face are not global and they just take it as a fact of life.
- WanderPanda 7y agoThis is absolutely against my experience. When I visited the US last year I was surprised by how clean and well maintained public toilets were. I am not used to this, as in Germany public toilets (if they even exist) are totally disgusting.
- tomjakubowski 7y agoThe pay public toilets I used in German train stations (Freiburg, Munich Hauptbahnhof) were clean and fine.
- majewsky 7y agoI think "paid" is the significant word here. That said, the toilets on German trains (not in train stations) are generally ok as well, even though they're not paywalled.
- icebraining 7y agoWell, they're paywalled by the train ticket, no?
- _nalply 7y agoProbably not, because in Germany you can walk on the railway platforms even if you don't have a train ticket, so the toilets should be free access, too, and probably this is why many railway stations have pay toilets only.
- NikkiA 7y agoYes, but the post you're responding to, was responding to this: > German trains (not in train stations)
- majewsky 7y agoThat's correct, but I have a public transit subscription, so toilets in regional trains are sort of "on the house" for me.
- dagw 7y agoThis is absolutely against my experience. Seconded. Recently returned from New York (mostly Manhattan) and everything was surprisingly clean. Sure, not Tokyo clean, but much cleaner than I had been led to believe it would be.