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What is the dirtiest place you have visited? (alien.top)

submitted 11 months ago by sweatysexconnoisseur@alien.top to c/digitalnomad@expats.zone

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Doesn’t have to be a city, although that would be the natural answer.

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[–] clipboarder@alien.top 1 points 11 months ago

I’ve only been to the Americas, Africa, Europe, and Singapore. From my personal experience nothing came close to parts of San Francisco and encampments in the rest of the Bay Area.

FWIW, this is from a few years ago. Tenderloin, Mission, and SOMA are worse now.

“The contamination is ... much greater than communities in Brazil or Kenya or India … I would hope that this is just a short-term type of concern and that we can really get our city to where it should be: a nice clean destination for people who want to come out to the West Coast.”

https://www.npr.org/2018/08/01/634626538/san-francisco-squalor-city-streets-strewn-with-trash-needles-and-human-feces

“The last time I saw cooking on a sidewalk, Farha said, was in Mumbai … There’s a cruelty [in SF] that I don’t think I’ve seen, she said.”

https://amp.theguardian.com/us-news/2018/jan/22/un-rapporteur-homeless-san-francisco-california