Baltimore dubbed americas dirtiest city

[Eastbmore]

I spent 4 hours in the hot sun the weekend before this past one cleaning up with a group of other community members around Lexington Market. The alleys will make you gag. That said, certain areas of the city get much more attention than others when it comes to trash cleanup. DPW has been pretty bad since covid. It's going to take something like $23 million to fix our trash/recycling problems.

 

[BEN23]

Why don't people take pride in what they own and their surroundings? I had a 2001 Lexus with 190k miles that I kept pristine. My house might not be the biggest, but I keep the grass cut, sidewalk clean, etc.

When you don't own something ...you don't value it....so you don't care. If you work for something...then you know the value when its lost..
so it starts from home with the parents. If the parents are use to living in a mess...the kids see no wrong in it. They're comfortable in squalor

Why does the project elevator get pissed on....somebody who works for housing will clean it up. why do they throw garbage out the window, instead of walking down the hall and putting it in the incinerator..becuase they know someone gonna clean it up. We have grown kids today and these programs need to enforce that they most clean or keep they area clean or face eviction and you might see changes.

But it goes deeper then that..bring back shame.

 

[BEN23]

Gotta be depression, and/or lack of self respect, or thinking it’s someone else’s job to clean. What is the dam city gonna do about it?

you hit the nail in the head.....depression is definitely part too

 

[CreepyMcCreeperson]

When you don't own something ...you don't value it....so you don't care. If you work for something...then you know the value when its lost..
so it starts from home with the parents. If the parents are use to living in a mess...the kids see no wrong in it. They're comfortable in squalor

Why does the project elevator get pissed on....somebody who works for housing will clean it up. why do they throw garbage out the window, instead of walking down the hall and putting it in the incinerator..becuase they know someone gonna clean it up. We have grown kids today and these programs need to enforce that they most clean or keep they area clean or face eviction and you might see changes.

But it goes deeper then that..bring back shame.

I believe this as well. Everyone is taught not to litter in school, but if your parents litter, you’re going to litter too. The thing I don’t get is, why would anyone feel comfortable living with trash around? It doesn’t have to be there if you throw it away. There are a lot of complaints about the hood, but if you buy something at the store, and throw the wrapper on the ground, the system didn’t force you to do that.

 

[Swirv]

How the whole city depressed though?

There's a bunch of shyt I wish I had, mainly money. Ain't making nowhere near enough, but I'm not depressed. Besides, cleanliness helps depression.

It’s the accumulators of filth that are making it bad. People who don’t care about their surroundings, or self.

One bad neighbor can also influence others to enhance or destroy their property.

 

[ReturnOfJudah]

had a 2001 Lexus with 190k miles that I kept pristine.

My house might not be the biggest, but I keep the grass cut, sidewalk clean

bars

 

[null]

uh uh .


it's wherever that SAWG bio-hazard flight landed

 

[TELL ME YA CHEESIN FAM?]

No wonder Teanna Trump moved to Houston

 

[3rdWorld]

Its due to apathy, poverty and a rejection of the city.
No one truly thinks of Baltimore as home, to the residents its a dead depressing city not work saving or contributing to. You'll find most people want to get out but dont know how.

 

[TMBlue]

Its due to apathy, poverty and a rejection of the city.
No one truly thinks of Baltimore as home, to the residents its a dead depressing city not work saving or contributing to. You'll find most people want to get out but dont know how.

That's not true. Some of us see the improvements that the city has made, and are optimistic for its future. I can see how someone from out of town can write it off as not worth saving since they have no want/need to invest energy or thought into it. The city can turn around, but it has to be willing to, and do whatever is necessary, and get out of its own way.

 

[Max Power]

The Wire Season 6 should follow McNulty working in the sanitation department after he was fired from the BPD.

 

[Tribal Outkast]

fox 45

Most depressing station I’ve ever seen. I had friends that worked at a different station there and they tried to get me to come work there. No sir! Fox 45 makes Baltimore look like a straight hellhole. I’ve never seen a positive story from that station

 

[3rdWorld]

That's not true. Some of us see the improvements that the city has made, and are optimistic for its future. I can see how someone from out of town can write it off as not worth saving since they have no want/need to invest energy or thought into it. The city can turn around, but it has to be willing to, and do whatever is necessary, and get out of its own way.

Admittedly I was there sometime in the early 2000s, for about 2 hours..
It didn't help that at the place we visited they informed us to park directly by the window so we keep an eye on it..
Spoke to an old college friend couple years ago, said he was there for a day and got held up at gunpoint for the 20 in his pocket.
As a city in a strategic junction it should be doing better.

 

[Why-Fi]

Most depressing station I’ve ever seen. I had friends that worked at a different station there and they tried to get me to come work there. No sir! Fox 45 makes Baltimore look like a straight hellhole. I’ve never seen a positive story from that station

they do it because the politicians are black. didnt mary bubala end up there?

 

[TMBlue]

Admittedly I was there sometime in the early 2000s, for about 2 hours..
It didn't help that at the place we visited they informed us to park directly by the window so we keep an eye on it..
Spoke to an old college friend couple years ago, said he was there for a day and got held up at gunpoint for the 20 in his pocket.
As a city in a strategic junction it should be doing better.

The location of the city is a gift and a curse. It's good due to proximity to other cities within the Northeast Corridor, so amenities are plentiful. It's bad because MD is not a business friendly state, coupled with more appealing cities nearby, Baltimore gets overlooked. 2 years ago, Baltimore was the largest city in the country without a Fortune 500 Company. We have 4, which are all home-grown; no company relocated to baltimore. On the flip side, companies leave Baltimore for those other cities.