Wednesday, August 15, 2012

Cities need to address graffiti

There is something that just drives us crazy as we travel around Europe. Coming from a city that doesn't allow graffiti to stay on property and are always quick to get a crew out right away to get rid of it, it's something that we have a hard time ignoring here. Every city has this problem. There really is too much of it to deal with but perhaps if they had started right away in the beginning, then there would be less of it. They aren't just tagging old and unused bldgs, but new reno'd and lived-in ones as well. It's embarrassing for the cities to have this all over the place and it makes most cities look like slums.
The area where we stayed in Hamburg, Leipzig and Dresden - it was all covered and we felt as if we were in the slums. Will they ever get it to stop? Nope - too many out of work young people and teens to catch.