My ex-wife’s parents emigrated from Glasgow to NYC just after WWII. They arrived in NYC in the middle of a garbage strike, with mountains of trash piled up on the curbs. One look around, and the mother wanted to get right back on the ship and return to Scotland.
I remember going to the Aquarium many years ago and walked around without issue. Today that’s where a lot of crime is and I wouldn’t go back and walk around today for 50k.
So, where is the list?
From the study (# of sanitary complaints/100k population):
1 Baltimore 47,295
2 Sacramento 34,186
3 Charlotte 31.112
4 Los Angeles 21,616
5 Memphis 17,408
6 Boston 10,252
7 San Antonio 8,929
8 Kansas City 8,874
9 Buffalo 8509
10 Dallas 8,382
11 Pittsburgh 7,854
12 Nashville 7,703
13 Chicago 7,376
14 Houston 6,275
15 Oakland 6,139
16 New Orleans 5,295
17 New York 3,728
18 Miami 3.284
19 San Francisco 2.411
20 Austin 2,245
21 Philadelphia 2,144
22 Riverside 1,609
23 Milwaukee 309
Baltimore was going to be my guess, with San FranFeces being my backup.
Sanitation complaints is a rotten metric to judge relative cleanliness. Residents of San Francisco know better than to bother.
I’m a native New Yorker, still enjoy visiting.
The Big Town is not particularly dirty, anyone who would “never guess” that NYC wasn’t in the top ten a) has never been there, and b) has no idea what they are talking about.
Once a great manufacturing center, now mainly a cesspool of feral negroes: Detroit on the Chesapeake.
This is a stupid list. It’s complaints per capita.
If you live in a dense city where people have given up complaining because it does nothing (or subjects you to harassment), then you are ranked down the list.
