It's quite a shock to see your taxi driver throw his lolly wrapper out the window! This behaviour has been eradicated from Australia for 2 generations already, hence the jaw-dropping reaction by me. It actually took me a few seconds to realise what had just happened.
Having asked several locals about the glaring lack of civic pride endemic in this beautiful city, I've been told that it's not nationwide, only here in BA. The reason given is that there's been so many foreign arrivals to BA from the other impoverished, Spanish-speaking Mercosur countries who don't know how to respect the environment, that the citizens of BA ('Portenos') are unwilling to fight what they consider is a losing battle.
Piss poor excuse in my opinion. The founders of BA who invested all the original funds in French architects, Spanish city planners/engineers & Italian landscapers to create the special ambiance & the high standard of visual aesthetic that is still so abundant here today would be horrified to see how little regard the locals have for their inherited hometown today!!
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