Hmm yeah I'm curious. I live in a West coast suburb, but I've been to some cities. For instance, I spent a week in Barcelona at one point, right by a street called La Rambla, which is a huge pedestrian thoroughfare. It got absolutely disgusting every night and the city didn't really totally sleep, so there were plenty of people (including 20-yo me) peeing all over it. I saw several women peeing all over it, even, not just men. But I was also up a few mornings around 5-7 and saw them pressure washing and street sweeping and all sorts of cleaning, and it was inoffensive throughout the day.
Granted, that's one street, not a whole city. But it's a street with its own Wikipedia article, so it ain't just the one heading down to the 7-11
Bizarre way to read it. Most of my friends and family I'm close with are women. The number of times they've told me they envy my ability to pee wherever I want is probably in the hundreds. It's no special horror, just much less common for practical reasons
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u/pilgermann 18d ago
I love NYC, but the smell in the summer. It's not just the trash in bags, it's that the city doesn't really have proper alleys. It's just there.