People call cities noisy and dirty, but suburbanites create the noise and mess
I wish you could experience the pollution of Friday and Saturday nights in my neighborhood: sound pollution and litter in particular. If I go out the following morning before the street cleaners do their work, at taxpayer expense, there is garbage all over. Pizza boxes, beer cans, plastic cups, sometimes bar glasses but they've mostly been replaced by plastic, doof wrappers, often pieces of clothing, takeout containers often with food in it, and plenty more. It's on the street, the gutter, the planters outside my building, in the trees, overflowing from garbage cans. At night they honk, rev their engines, yell at each other, sing, and so on. None are from this neighborhood. They are from other places---New Jersey, Long Island, upstate, as well as…
