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Aren't all major world cities dirty, smelly and a pain in the ass?
To some extent?
To lump Italy with all of that is to never have traveled the NY Subway in high summer.
And this is gross but the only place that my boogers come out dirtier than India is London.
I feel like my Roman boogers are absolutely pristine in comparison.
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Re: Aren't all major world cities dirty, smelly and a pain in the ass?
My boogers in N.E. China were black. They still are sometimes, but I think that's just left over residue.
Chronically hilarious - you'll split your stitches!
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Hahaha. I love this pollution measurement technique! The capital here is pretty dirty and gross (although I haven't tested my boogers yet) , I generally try to avoid it.
Oslo isn't particularly dirty or smelly.
When we moved here from Beijing, the first thing we did when we arrived was take a deep breath and exclaim about how clean the air was. This was at the airport!!! Among the jet fumes.
I was going to say, didn't we already have this conversation? haha
Turkey, in particular Istanbul was hella stinky. There were stray cats that lived in the hotel, plus the week we went there, the trash collectors had gone on strike. There were piles of trash EVERYWHERE. Ew.
I live in Naples, IT. It will kill me.Happily my mucus is still normal color (v. London results, which were totally creepy).
Really though, yeah, I think life generally can be dirty, smelly and a PITA, regardless of location. But it's also what you make of it... you can dwell on the bad or you can do your best to focus on the good stuff.
I won't go all Mary Poppins on you, yeah, it blows when your trash doesn't get picked up for 3mos at a stretch... when you know it's only a matter of time til your house gets broken in to... etc. All the cool architecture in the world doesn't make that fun, fair or right. Naples is more a rough with the smooth kind of place-- you also meet people here who are beyond words kind and generous.
The best way I can explain it is it's like a bi-polar city-- the highs are so high and the lows, well, they suck.
I guess you found it, since you replied over there.
Before my first trip to CPH, a friend (who has never set foot anywhere outside the US, mind you) assured me that Denmark and Sweden were totally clean, had no trash or graffiti of any kind, and would knock my socks off. So I took lots of pictures of all the trash and graffiti I found so I could take them back to my friend. It really is clean here and not very smelly for a city, but it's still a city. And I LOVE cities, don't get me wrong. I don't walk around CPH thinking it's smelly all day, but yeah, if I go a couple hours away into the country, I notice the difference. Though, considering people walk around with open bottles of Tuborg and freely piss on the sidewalk, it's not nearly as smelly as it you might expect.
N?rreport Station really does smell, though.
When I studied abroad a friend and I spent spring break seeing Naples, Rome, Florence, and Venice. The best meal we had was in a restaurant in Naples where we actually had to climb over a few bags of trash to get to the entrance.
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