It’s not new, though it’s worse now.
In the late 80s-early 90s I met a woman from France who complained about how dirty DC was. She said that in her country, if you were stuck in a traffic jam, there were nice things to look at; but here everything was filthy.
Of course, there are parts of Paris now that are really filthy, too.
True. But our cities got better. From 2000-2020.
Coming from a Frenchwoman that is something.
Last time I was in Paris I thought the pilot had made a wrong turn and we landed in Tunisia.
On the train to where the company we were working with was located I saw many neighborhoods easily as bad if not worse than those in Memphis and Birmingham.
Far, far worse than Atlanta.