Re:Scooters are taking cars off the road, a survey says
by johnomarkid on Sunday October 28, 2018 @06:46PM
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That's my point. It's a matter of perspective whether or not you find SF dirty. If you come from a cleaner place, you're going to feel like it's dirty. Berlin isn't much cleaner, and there is a homeless problem too (though likely different in cause), so you're not likely to go to SF and feel like the criticism others are passing is as bad as it sounds.
Re:Scooters are taking cars off the road, a survey says
by ido on Monday October 29, 2018 @04:46AM
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Yeah but how many people are coming from Copenhagen vs e.g. LA or Miami[1]? Let alone any large Latin American or Asian city. But maybe that's just the HN demographics.
[1] I haven't visited Miami in a long time but last I went it was far seedier and grimier than SF, despite lots of rain.
Re:Scooters are taking cars off the road, a survey says
by johnomarkid on Monday October 29, 2018 @11:55AM
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A lot of people are coming from cleaner places, and those places aren't necessarily big cities. Rather, suburbs and rural areas.
It reminds of when I lived in Vienna & had a Swiss coworker telling me how bad the transit is in Austria (if you're unfamiliar - transit is amazing in Austria, to the point where you can live in a small alpine village and not need a car. Switzerland just happens to be one of the handful of countries with even better transit).