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Look at how clean those streets are! Is there someone from Oslo who can comment on these streets now? Are they still as clean (because they're in the political district?) or did we make our cities more dirty since then?


Oslo is a very clean city, but it also feels a lot busier now than it looks in these pictures.

A lot of the photos were taken around the parliament buildings, the royal palace, and the national theatre, which may explain why the streets are so clean and the standard of attire is so high.


He’s mostly walking up and down the Main Street of central Oslo, you can try it your self - use Google Street View on “Karl Johans Gate”.

Notable buildings in the shots are Stortinget (Parlament), the University of Oslo and in one of the shots, the Royal Castle


Our streets look similar to this, I rarely see any litter unless after a really big event or similar.

Background: I'm not in Oslo but I'm living in Gothenburg which is both close by (roughly 3 hours with bus) and roughly the same size. I live on the main Avenue (avenyn) walk to and from work so I see much of the central inner city every day.


Are you American? Streets in plenty of European cities still look like that.


London based now, but in Belgium they sure didnt. And I visited Stockholm and Alesund but didnt notice such cleanliness.


In Vienna they did. And the joke goes that the Swiss say the Austrians are dirty :P




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