Science/Environment Melbourne is a garbage wasteland

[Thrawn]

Is this a joke thread?

Go to London, Jakarta, NYC, etc and tell me how clean it is there.

 

[strung_out7]

Around the world inner-cities are getting better, safer, cleaner. Melbourne will catch up at some point one hopes.

I think you need to travel a bit more khief

 

[Herne Hill Hammer]

There are many tattooed people in Melbourne.

There are many women in Perth with horrible legs that have big arsed tattoos on their thighs.

 

[Herne Hill Hammer]

Canberra is a very clean city, as is Perth, or was last time I was there.
Probably because of their planned nature to a large extent as there are no great "urban scars" that you find in the older cities.

Canberra is just full of junkies.

 

[Chief]

I think you need to travel a bit more khief

Been to London lately? Edinburgh? New York? Paris? Sydney? Anywhere at all?

Are you trying to say those inner-cities are less safe and less clean than, say, 20 or 30 years ago?

I think it might be you that needs to travel, bung_out.

 

[Chief]

Is this a joke thread?

Go to London, Jakarta, NYC, etc and tell me how clean it is there.

Been lately?

 

[strung_out7]

Been to London lately? Edinburgh? New York? Paris? Sydney? Anywhere at all?

Are you trying to say those inner-cities are less safe and less clean than, say, 20 or 30 years ago?

I think it might be you that needs to travel, bung_out.

Lol come on chief. Paris, New York, London more safe? Please.

 

[Jimmy_the_Gent]

Yeah, Jakarta is pretty bad. Plenty of rats and the air makes your throat hurt.

 

[Kingpin]

London in the late 80s was a complete dump.
Filth everywhere you went and half the buildings looked like they were still ravaged from WW2 and not fixed up yet. Rats. Everywhere. Big ones. Grimey.

 

[Thrawn]

Been lately?

Only a couple of months ago in London.

 

[Thrawn]

Rats. Everywhere. Big ones. Grimey.

Lol and we don't have that here? In particular Canberra?

 

[awaremind]

Canberra is a very clean city, as is Perth, or was last time I was there.
Probably because of their planned nature to a large extent as there are no great "urban scars" that you find in the older cities.

Partly at least it's due to most people having respect for our clean, isolated environment. There are some idiot of course but mostly people are good. We don't really have anyone else to blame .

 

[Fire]

Lol come on chief. Paris, New York, London more safe? Please.

New York is a billion times safer and cleaner than it was 30 years ago.

And its still a billion times filthier than Melbourne today.

Australians complain a lot about nothing.

 

[Paul Kersey]

I walk up and down Little Collins St near daily. The part between Swanston and Elizabeth really smells. Other than that I can deal with it. Just.

 

[Spirit Level]

Australian cities are some of the cleanest in the world

 

[Chief]

Only a couple of months ago in London.

Compared to 15 years ago, London’s inner city is neat as a pin.


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[Thrawn]

Compared to 15 years ago, London’s inner city is neat as a pin.

May well be but Melbourne on average is still a lot cleaner.

 

[Chief]

May well be but Melbourne on average is still a lot cleaner.

Probably - which supports my view inner cities are cleaner and safer than ever before.


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[Total Power]

Australian cities are some of the cleanest in the world

I was in Helsinki and Copenhagen last week, some of the cleanest cities that i have ever seen. Talinn is not bad as well

 

[Rob]

Partly at least it's due to most people having respect for our clean, isolated environment. There are some idiot of course but mostly people are good. We don't really have anyone else to blame .

We don't really have a graffiti culture here either. About 15-20 years ago the government made a concerted effort to get rid of it as soon as possible and put a lot of money into it. As a result people were a lot less likely to waste their time tagging s**t, knowing it would get deleted soon after.
You still get it around, but it's nothing like a lot of other cities. Melbourne especially.

 

[fleabitten]

It's the suburbs that are going to s**t. Too many tacky looking housing developments and inadequate infrastructure to support the populations cramming into them. Roads are overburdened, there's contantly roadworks being done that often make the stretch of road worse than it was before (I swear someone is just paying their mate to do pointless "improvements"). Bogans are more drug ****ed than before and immigrants are less willing to adapt to their new country. The outer suburbs are s**t and getting shitter.

 

[emuboy]

I can't believe the disgusting way the St Kilda foreshore was left in on Christmas night.

 

[Procrastinator35]

I can't believe the disgusting way the St Kilda foreshore was left in on Christmas night.

Alcohol & mindless sheep is a potent mixture....Go figure.

 

[Thrawn]

The outer suburbs are s**t and getting shitter.

The Eltham/Diamond Creek/Hustbridge area is doing quite fine thank you very much.

 

[Fire]

I can't believe the disgusting way the St Kilda foreshore was left in on Christmas night.

My American wife and I were pissing ourselves laughing at that report on sky news. Seeing how that made national headlines, and the use of sensationalist language to drum it up was so cute. And then they interviewed 'horrified' locals!