Fair point. We definitely have more trash though. So much of it. Frozen great mounds of snow-covered hepatitis in winter, and stinking black fermenting vessels full of distilled evil in the summer.

And to think I thought SF had the market cornered on dramatic prose ;)

Please. Everything here is either worse or better than it is everywhere else. That's why the whole of the rest of the world without any exception at all is in absolute awe of New York. :)