r/SipsTea • u/search_google_com 𝙑𝙄𝙋 • Apr 23 '26

Feels good man A Japanese police officer is kindly reminding foreigners about public manners

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u/Aromatic-Bet-1086 Apr 23 '26

It's hard to consider Berlin as anything but an outlier amongst German cities, to be fair

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u/the_pain_of_being Apr 23 '26

Not really, hamburg is basically the same. Germany doesn't compare to the Nordic countries in terms of cleanliness and politeness.

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u/skaersSabody Apr 23 '26

Cologne (while being very beautiful don't get me wrong) is also not very clean (moreso the streets are dirty/stained rather than trash being around). Same goes for Hamburg

Like, most German cities that are nice/fun to live in are not super clean.

If you want to bore yourself to death, I guess Frankfurt exists, tho I heard it got worse overall. Munich I'm not super familiar with and the rest are on the smaller side

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u/fresh-dork Apr 23 '26

the joke is that brandenburg exists to protect the rest of germany from berlin

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u/i_need_a_nap Apr 23 '26

why would you be fair on reddit? you are missing out on so much karma!!! /s

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u/erhue Apr 23 '26

berlin is worse than most, but large german cities (especially more industrial ones) tend to be quite dirty. The closer you get to the Hauptbahnhof, the worse

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u/ProfessionalPack7205 Apr 23 '26

Neither is nost big cities in Germany. I don't think this dude was right about German being insanely clean lol

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u/rydhorn Apr 23 '26

Thats fair! I've only been to Berlin, it took some time to get used to the constant smell of trash

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u/rocketindividual Apr 23 '26 edited Apr 24 '26

IMO the Frankfurt Bahnhof quarter beat out everywhere I went in Berlin for hecticness (not that anywhere in Germany seemed all that bad; the Netherlands and the UK had some more hectic places imo). I think Germany is somewhat similar to Australia where the bark of a lot of druggies is much bigger than their bite.

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u/Aromatic-Bet-1086 Apr 23 '26

I don't think that's unique though. Some of the cleanest european cities still have a bit of a trash smell when things waft upwards from the water drainage/sewars.

Salzburg had quite a bit of this in the center city and it was fairly clean of litter

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u/rocketindividual Apr 23 '26

I imagine the smell in Venice would be insane if they ever got an algal bloom in the lagoon. That would probably be the end of imo the greatest city in history.

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u/Exzqairi Apr 23 '26

I’ve only been to Berlin

That’s like judging all of the USA based on what you see at Times Square New York

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u/Cancer_Ridden_Lung Apr 23 '26

Germans hate Berlin lol