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One could make a similar post of a clean American city and European cities with graffiti everywhere.
Most all major cities have graffiti. I will say that Iโm pretty surprised at the number of EU cities that have massive graffiti everywhere. The US has issues, but a lot of larger graffiti is limited to poorer, less-traveled or more inaccessible areas. EU? Huge graffiti right across shop fronts roll-down shutters on the Main Street. Surprising.
France is a shit hole compared to most US cities, and I'm VERY well traveled. Spain? Absolutely the opposite. Cleanest cities I've ever seen and some of the nicest architecture too.
This crap isn't a monolith, and the US has plenty of good mass transportation systems.
Iโve been to parts of Spain that have graffiti. Barcelona has plenty, Madrid is spotless - of course that depends on the part of town, too.
The point was that you can arrange pictures to look like whatever you want most of the time, not to actually criticize any one country.