whudats June 17, 2005 Share whudats Member June 17, 2005 Reader's Digest Cleanest (and Dirtiest) Cities Too bad we're brought down by "outlying areas"! Unless you read it and understand that they looked at the cities' surrounding areas, this could be a deceiving list. In my opinion, from a strictly visual/aesthetic standpoint, Chicago is cleaner than New York City, Philly, Cleveland, Houston, Detroit(?!), Baltimore, Las Vegas, Rochester... They should do a "not including outlying areas" list... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
00b3rN00b June 17, 2005 Share 00b3rN00b Member June 17, 2005 LOL they probably considered Gary, Indiana as part of Chicago.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
YoMamma June 17, 2005 Share YoMamma Member June 17, 2005 I was just downtown yesterday. The city isn't dirty. Try goin to Gastown in Vancouver or walking down the streets of San Fransisco late at night and you'll see dirty. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fatty June 17, 2005 Share Fatty GC Founder June 17, 2005 I think it's just based on smell. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Xall June 17, 2005 Share Xall Member June 17, 2005 depends on where u go in chicago but yeah, i think its clean Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
campkillyorself June 17, 2005 Share campkillyorself Member June 17, 2005 Haha, I read that last night. Indianapolis, IN > Louisville, KY Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Acid-Flux June 17, 2005 Share Acid-Flux Member June 17, 2005 I dont believe that for 1 SECOND.. there is no way is H e double hockey sticks Bufflo is 3rd cleanest and NewYork is 2nd last. They gave NewYork a 2 for water cleanlieness but, I know for a fact that NewYork has some of the cleanest water you can get becuase it is shipped in from newJersy. total bull plop that survey Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DirtyBird June 17, 2005 Share DirtyBird Member June 17, 2005 I live 20 min south of Detroit...and that's definitely the dirtiest city in the US - hands down. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fatty June 17, 2005 Share Fatty GC Founder June 17, 2005 but, I know for a fact that NewYork has some of the cleanest water you can get becuase it is shipped in from newJersy. <{POST_SNAPBACK}> Does that really make sense? Think about it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kilzugud June 17, 2005 Share Kilzugud Member June 17, 2005 Does that really make sense? Think about it. <{POST_SNAPBACK}> LOL, does sound pretty dang funny if you think about it. all i know is when i have to drive through chicago, you can guarentee it will not be anywhere close to rush hour. Chicago is the worst traffic i have ever seen period!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
General J June 17, 2005 Share General J Member June 17, 2005 ACTUALLY... New York does have the cleanest water since they are the first outlet from the source. I want to say Fort Collins, CO is like number 2 only because there is one outlet before them. Their water tastes darn good too! I would believe that St. Louis is one of the dirtiest cities. ESPECIALLY if you count in the immediate out lying regions! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
YoMamma June 17, 2005 Share YoMamma Member June 17, 2005 I would believe that St. Louis is one of the dirtiest cities. ESPECIALLY if you count in the immediate out lying regions! <{POST_SNAPBACK}> Can you say East St. Louis? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
General J June 17, 2005 Share General J Member June 17, 2005 That actually belongs to you IL people! But for some unknown reason, we still lay claim to it... You all can have it! But East STL is exactly what I am referring to. That and about every other direction around the city. St. Charles has it's fair share of oddities. But we are far enough away from the actual city to be safe. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bush June 17, 2005 Share Bush Member June 17, 2005 (edited) I would believe that St. Louis is one of the dirtiest cities. ESPECIALLY if you count in the immediate out lying regions! <{POST_SNAPBACK}> I was in St. Louis back in April for a week and I was a little shocked. I stayed in a hotel between Bush Stadium and the Edward Jones Dome (I forget the street name), but I could see the arch through my hotel window. Every morning when I got up to walk to the convetion center I would atleast have one bum or a crack head asking me for money, and I was only walking three blocks. Then you have east St. Louis which I avoided. The Ozarks are nice though. Did a little trout fishing on works expense Detroit is way worse than Chicago or St. Louis in my opinion. It's starting to clean up, but it is still very dirty. Edited June 17, 2005 by BushMaster Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ak2786 June 18, 2005 Share Ak2786 Member June 18, 2005 lol Chicago is definately not dirty and is most definately cleaner than any major northeast city (Philthydelphia/New York) and yomamma I dont know where in San fransisco you went but that is definately one of the cleanest cities in the US. Detriot/anywhere in Michigan should be the dirtiest/trashpile of the country Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Acid-Flux June 18, 2005 Share Acid-Flux Member June 18, 2005 Does that really make sense? Think about it. <{POST_SNAPBACK}> Yes it makes perfect sence.. NewYork (CITY) gets it's drinking water from resivouirs in from the NewJersy reigion. That is some of the cleanest water there is. And im not sure how Buffalo got a 50 for water, becuase sometimes when I turn on my water there is a brown tinge to it. so there is no way that's clean. (Ps I dont drink that water, I buy water) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bush June 18, 2005 Share Bush Member June 18, 2005 (edited) Detriot/anywhere in Michigan should be the dirtiest/trashpile of the country <{POST_SNAPBACK}> I disagree. Detroit sucks don't get me wrong, but Lansing and Grand Rapids have cleaned up quite a bit. Not to mention all of the resort towns up north which are still very nice i.e. Charlevoix among others.. Granted these aren't big citys.. Ok now I'm defending Michigan too much.. My favorite big small town is Fargo, ND though. That town is alot of fun in many ways.. Mabe it's because I live in a rual area 40 miles east of there and had nothing else to do. Just make sure you don't get married to some crazy chick that doesn't like snoring, and has a fetish for pens and weights .. Anyways I'm getting off topic now.. Edited June 18, 2005 by BushMaster Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nimon June 18, 2005 Share Nimon Member June 18, 2005 I lived in NYC in the early 90s, and while I thought the usual complaints about dirt, crime, and traffic were overrated, it did have impressive levels of all three. Taken in combo... Anyway, New Yorkers loved to brag about their water, but it was nasty--mostly due to the very old pipes it flowed through, I suspect. I bought my drinking water at the grocery store. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
00b3rN00b June 18, 2005 Share 00b3rN00b Member June 18, 2005 Traverse City abd Petosky are absolutely beautiful cities in Michigan. The northern part of the "mitten" of Michigan is a great area. Grand Rapids isn't that bad either. Outside of Detroit/Flint/parts of the upper peninsula Michigan isn't a bad state at all. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fatty June 18, 2005 Share Fatty GC Founder June 18, 2005 My point was: are they rating NY water or the NJ water....or is there no such thing as NY water, since you say it's brought in from NJ? If that's the case, does NY rating match the NJ rating exactly because it's the same water? Does anyone follow my logic? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nimon June 18, 2005 Share Nimon Member June 18, 2005 I thought NYC water came from the Catskill Mountains? It used to. In my day, the lake in Central Park, in which many a bird paddled about and rain filled with whatever it washed from the Manhattan sky, was surrounded by a very rusty chainlink fence. On this fence hung signs which said, roughly, "This is your drinking water. Treat it with care." Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Acid-Flux June 18, 2005 Share Acid-Flux Member June 18, 2005 My point was: are they rating NY water or the NJ water....or is there no such thing as NY water, since you say it's brought in from NJ? If that's the case, does NY rating match the NJ rating exactly because it's the same water? Does anyone follow my logic? <{POST_SNAPBACK}> Hey Buffalo doesnt have it's own water either. it's from up north, so does that mean Buffalo's water shouldnt be ranked either? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
whudats June 18, 2005 Author Share whudats Member June 18, 2005 Back to the Gary comment - No offense in anyone lives there, but man, when you have to stop and pay that 50 cent toll before the Skyway you get a mouthful of NASTY. Oh man does it stink. And yes, Detroit is filthy. Absolutely filthy. Have you seen downtown? And you made it out with your car? Wow... Just kidding...but Chicago itself is very clean. It's this outlying areas nonsense that brings these cities down. I'm sort of guessing here, but doesn't each city have a way to store water before use? It doesn't all just pump straight from the line to your faucet. And then you have the treatment side of the house. All of the cities that pump water in from elsewhere don't just send it back all dirty, do they? I'm sure some of it is treated and put back in the system somewhere. Point being that even if a city gets its water from NJ, or Canada, or wherever, they still have to have clean tanks and pipes to store it and then treatment facilities to treat it when used. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kilzugud June 18, 2005 Share Kilzugud Member June 18, 2005 My point was: are they rating NY water or the NJ water....or is there no such thing as NY water, since you say it's brought in from NJ? If that's the case, does NY rating match the NJ rating exactly because it's the same water? Does anyone follow my logic? <{POST_SNAPBACK}> LOL, yes sir. i didnt know how to say it, but i have been laughn to myself the whole time cause i though i was reading it like that. mighty fine job puttin it into words. lol. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fatty June 18, 2005 Share Fatty GC Founder June 18, 2005 Hey Buffalo doesnt have it's own water either. it's from up north, so does that mean Buffalo's water shouldnt be ranked either? <{POST_SNAPBACK}> I don't know, that's why I was asking. I don't claim to have any answers here. Nor am I refuting any claims in these studies (you'd think they wouldn't put up a study that was completely inaccurate). Maybe NY water = horrible (problem), which is why NY water is NJ water (solution?), so that people are drinking the bad water and the solution is in place? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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