Special Report: Where's the Filth?

The night we ate Pringles on the sidewalk we carefully looked down and around before we sat down on the curb looking for glass, roaches, gum, rats... The sidewalk was immaculate. At one point I dropped a chip in the street and almost popped it right back into my mouth because it looked so clean. It was then we realized just how clean this country is.

In the states at night roaches and rats come out to play - not just in overcrowded New York, but in Florida and St. Louis as well. Here we haven't seen one. We rarely see bugs at all.

The trash cans are always empty instead of overflowing with rubbish The subways look as if they've been freshly swept instead of coated with a trash filled ooze. It's amazing.

- Megan Leigh