Is your street clean?

I know a lot of you live in rural areas, but for those city folks, is your street clean? Hartford is a dirty city and my neighborhood is one of the dirtiest. At least once a day I pick up my entire street. Mostly I think it is drivers who eat their Happy Meals and then toss the wrappings onto the street. Dirty pigs! I find all kinds of crap though, including used condoms.

Today I helped the city with one building where the owner had not paid dumpster fees and, thus, the garbage was everywhere. I helped load garbage bags into a dumpster and, hopefully, the dumpster will be emptied tomorrow. I'm not sure why I do this, probably because I feel it brings down the value of my house with all this junk around.

My parents would have knocked us into next week for littering, but no one in Hartford seems to think it odd to be a litter bug. Oh well, stick a knife into me, I'm done.

No There is a community club across the street and a low rental building next door with a ton of kids and people who don't care about the place they live so they don't look after it. And next to that building is a hostel-like place where Aboriginal (Indian) people from the reserves come to stay when they have medical appointments etc in the city. Their Band pays for their expenses, so once again they don't have to account for their actions.

There is always litter and junk laying or blowing around.

This was a nice area when I moved here 16 years ago, but it's really gone down hill over the years. I have been wanting to move for the last 6 years, but my health issues keep getting in the way. Hopefully this will be the last year here and I'll move when my lease is up next year.

Mine is clean of trash. Unfortunately not as clean when it comes to people - the house on the woods-end of our street is a drug house - blahhhh. Cop verified, too.

Since there are only 5 houses on the street, it's kept pretty clean trash wise. There IS an abandoned house diagonal from mine (cant see it from my porch though), and another one further down in the woods - cant see it unless you know to look. I always liked the look of nature "taking it back" though. Good photo ops at times.

I do live in the country. But if you walk down our road, you see all kinds of stuff that folks throw out of their car windows. It is disgusting how they pitch out drink cans, fast food cups and bags, even food. Other things include, beer cans and bottles, children's toys, newspapers and pornograghic magazines. We see socks, shirts and sometimes unmentionables. It is real easy not to do that. If we stop at a fast food or convenient store, I save the bag and put the trash in it to take home with me. I have never thrown my socks or underwear out the window.

I'm surprised to hear this, I always thought CT was a clean place...guess I was wrong. I live in a mobile home park and it always kept very clean. The only thing out there right now is some loose branches that fell from the trees and of course leaves are beginning to fall. The loose branches will be picked up by the end of the day, one of our maintenance men live right here so he is right on top of things.

I am on a major highway as soon as I leave the park so it is quite clean also. I have no complaints.

I live in a small town. My street is clean, I live across from a playground, it is clean too.

The resort has its own street sweeper.
The maintenance guy here loves street sweeping because everyone stops him and gives him a beer.

Originally Posted by blueyedgirl5946

I do live in the country. But if you walk down our road, you see all kinds of stuff that folks throw out of their car windows. It is disgusting how they pitch out drink cans, fast food cups and bags, even food. Other things include, beer cans and bottles, children's toys, newspapers and pornograghic magazines. We see socks, shirts and sometimes unmentionables. It is real easy not to do that. If we stop at a fast food or convenient store, I save the bag and put the trash in it to take home with me. I have never thrown my socks or underwear out the window.

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I've noticed that when walking down country roads. It always disgusts me how some people just throw stuff out the window. And why do you see so many single shoes lying about? You'd think people would notice if one of their shoes came off!

Where we live is pretty clean though, except for the bus stop out front- people seem to think it's OK to litter there. Otherwise, it's a nice clean neighbourhood, clean city come to think of it.

Our street is very clean. Maybe a couple leaves here and there?? That's about it, though.

My street is clean (country area) and also around the city. I think Australia is a pretty clean country.

We live on a country road that is like a in between road that is regularly traveled since it connects the main road to town. I always pick up the litter and crap that is thrown out by drivers while I walk from one end of the driveway to the other. The road (Route 147) that I drive on to take Bf to work is HORRIBLE, there is one section where it looks like someone dumped a garbage bag out there vehicle window. Its disgusting they really need to get the prison out there to pick up that road since they are the ones who normally take care of the roads that arent 'Adopted' highways.

Very rural country road here, too, but it's not too bad for the most part. Most of our trash comes from the idiots who throw beer or soda bottles out of their vehicles. Or fast food trash, that kind of stuff. And it lands in our front yard down by the road.

I think street cleaning was cut from the budget Now we don't have litter but the trash trucks do drip and its a bit smelly. I have noticed bus stops are a mess!

We're in a fairly nice suburban area, but on weekend mornings, I often see a few beer bottles, cigarette butts, and fast-food wrappers lying around -- tossed out by the well-bred teenage children of our neighbors. It's amazing to me that people need to be taught not to throw trash on the street! They must lack even the slightest shred of personal principle.

Originally Posted by LaRussa

I'm surprised to hear this, I always thought CT was a clean place.

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Well CT may be a clean place, but Hartford definitely isn't. Depending on who you ask, Hartford is one of the poorest cities in the nation, if not the poorest. The trash in my particular neighborhood has to be seen to be believed.

Also a lot of people in neighboring small towns dump garbage in Hartford because in some of the outlying small towns, they have to pay to take their garbage to the dump. So they drive into Hartford and dump is on us for free!

When I lived in the trailer park, there was a lot of crap all over the place. The whole place was nasty. My new neighborhood is well maintained and manicured.

Well it's tidy because it's a touristy side street with theaters and a busy Starbucks. It would be bad for business if it was untidy. When I lived in Briarwood, it was a corner house with few business nearby, so I 'd clean the sidewalk often-- even though I was a renter not the owner. I did learn one thing: Corner properties are a lot of work and I doubt it would be my cup of tea to own one.

Originally Posted by c1atsite

Corner properties are a lot of work and I doubt it would be my cup of tea to own one.

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The good thing about corner properties is that you only have neighbors on my side, but the worse thing is you have two sidewalks to shovel. And I can tell you that, in Hartford, the folks who leave snow and ice on the sidewalks year after year are usually the corner house folks. Makes it very difficult for walkers like me.

Do you live near Times Square? That must be awesome. I lived in midtown Manhattan on the east side for 10 years.

Originally Posted by Arlyn

The resort has its own street sweeper.
The maintenance guy here loves street sweeping because everyone stops him and gives him a beer.

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That so made me laugh.

Our county road we live on is kept pretty clean just by the fact that it is a dead end type of road.

However, what sometimes gets left around here are abandoned, or tossed, cats and dogs.