Filth
There's no two ways about it - London is filthy.
Twice I've trodden on gum, there's crap all over the sidewalks (more or less, depending on what neighbourhood you're in), there aren't enough garbage receptacles and people don't use them.
Shoes on seats is a common sight, as are sticky wrappers and empty soda cans on public transport. It's gross, especially after coming from pristine Japan.
It's not that the British are less tidy than the Japanese. I saw plenty of public littering on the streets of Hiroshima. It's just that there was more street cleaning there, and less here, and filth begets filth.
But the architecture is better here and views from the train are beautiful.
posted by susan @ 8:19 PM
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coming from hawaii you realise how good the cleaners are there compared to Japan and in a big way completely different from England. The beaches are spotless and that doesn't mean people don't litter, but they just have good cleaners I guess. Sometimes I saw the cleaners go by in London and it actually looked dirtier than before they came- no work ethic at all, come back to Japan and the obaachans cleaning the train take it seriously and wear spotless unis and seem to enjoy what they are doing??, the poor people working minimum wage on the beaches in Hawaii also seem quite focused, but I have never seen much of a smile. Wierd eh? In Hawaii now they are starting recycling in public places, different bins for recyclbles how about in the UK?
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