London and surrounding area has become so unkempt

[GrubbyTowns]

Rubbish strewn everywhere. All the verges full of cans, takeout detritus.
London and the southeast generally just seems so unkempt to where it was a few years ago even.
Just came back from a trip to Liverpool and the contrast was incredible. A busy city but so clean!
Why is this?

In all honesty it’s likely mostly that councils can’t keep up with the cost of social care and other areas like waste management, verges, bins etc are cut. We have an ageing population, a huge amount of illness, mental health issues and people with multiple chronic conditions (a huge % of the over 50s) and a generally unhealthy population relying on taxes to pay for their various care needs while wages have stagnated, industry fucked off and prosperity faded.

We are a nation in financial decline and therefore social decline.

Well enjoy being miserable. I’ll continue to plug the gaps where you seem to have let rage take your place. I’ll continue to volunteer at the food banks, litter pick, eat meals with those with dementia, grow food and bake for friends and neighbours.

Community is built through giving and open arms not through anger at people being born elsewhere or noting that pillaging other nations wasn’t a great thing to do. Nobody else is going to make your world better for you.

Race is the left weapon of choice. Make sure you get candidates in key positions that are beyond criticism due to their religion or colour.

This needs to be pinned to the top of AIBU, it’s the answer to many threads!

Nobody else is going to make your world better for you.

But people seem determined to make it worse for no good reason.

Yes.

The councils might not have the funds to keep clean, but why are people behaving like savages?

My local park has, or had, rather some lovely flowers, all maintained by volunteers.

Why did some visitors this weekend let their children pick and trample the flowers and why did they not pick up
after themselves?

This is so true. In our village I have never seen a council cleaner, a traffic warden, a policeman, council gardener etc (which would see all the time when lived in London). So we have a choice to moan or sort it out ourselves. Most chose the later option, which makes it a lovely place to live as people care and have pride in looking after their surroundings and also each other.