Filthy Streets!

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Look at the photo above and tell me where you think it was taken.


Something has been bothering me since I got home from Mexico on Sunday.
I have traveled to some funky places over the last few years and it always amazes me how much trash is lying about in poorer countries. It was no different in Mexico. During this last trip, we drove through a little village where the garbage was just piled up alongside the road. One of these pile was made up of at least 100 discarted plastic water bottles. I am not trying to judge the inhabitants of the village, it was just an observation. ( and yes, I admit, I was wondering what would be so hard about either a) bagging all the trash and b) fining one central location away from main street to combine everything into one pile)
But yesterday, while bringing my niece into Manhattan so that she could catch a bus home to Washington, I was struck by how much filth was strewn about my own city. Sure New York City has been cleaned of petty crime, but how about the filth along the sidewalks? I was disgusted by all the discarted wrappers and soda cans in the gutters. So who am I to knock the trash in Mexico. New York isn't much cleaner...