Submitted by monkeyhihi t3_zxte28 in Newark
I come home from work and it makes me depressed to see the garbage covering the street and sidewalk where I live. I pick up the litter myself, I like to have pride in my house and my surrounding areas so I frequently pick up litter myself. But it all just comes back so quickly.
I can think of several houses on my street who are locally responsible--there is one house with many little kids, and they have literal dirty diapers lining the sidewalk in front of their home. They never have a trash can, and don't even tie up their bags. There are two more houses as well I can point to who also don't have trash cans.
I wonder how anyone can possibly be ok with walking through their own shit to go in and out of their home... It just makes me sad and disgusted. If there were a single reason I wouldn't ever live in Newark long term it would be the trash.
7ranklin35C070 t1_j227n4z wrote
And the sidewalks are a complete mess, broken, uneven concrete, some sidewalks don’t even have concrete it’s just sand, many sidewalks have been destroyed to make illegal parking spots in front of houses and multi family bldgs, it’s a completely mess and safety hazard, AND NO-ONE IS DOING ANYTHING ABOUT! Cars permanently double parked on one way st. Blocking traffic on the daily basis SMH