golodhendil
Active Member
I don't disagree. European cities in general, in my experience, are much "neater" and does a better job in keeping their streets "clean" (though some of the offences there, like graffiti on some 4-500 years old townhouses, are probably more abhorrent).golodhendil, of the cities you've mentioned the one I've been in most recently is Madrid. There's hardly any postering there as far as I could tell, both in the centre of the city and in more outlying areas. It's definitely not overrun with posters the way Toronto is. What struck me is how immaculate everything is. It's not just the postering but the complete lack of overhead power lines, higher quality sidewalks, and the little things like newspaper kiosks. Compare Yonge Street, Queen West or Nathan Phillips Square with Gran Via or Plaza Mayor - the difference is like night and day.
Places like Hong Kong, however, are even "worse" than those pictures depict. Usually the posters will go on the walls, doors and windows of places like banks that are closed on weekends, get cleaned up first thing on Monday, then up the posters go again on Sat. Sometimes the posters would even just go on overnight.