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I’ve been on a few business and pleasure trips to France, Italy and Spain was struck by the volume of graffiti.

Way more than in NYC or Boston today, it reminded me of NYC when I was a kid in the 80s.

Same in Germany. Graffiti everywhere; walls, buildings, fences, signs, historic monuments. It's awful and I don't know why they can't manage to do anything about it, but it also seems like no one cares about it as a problem to begin with. To me, such an individual invasion of the public space seems like a mockery of the common trust and the notion that the Europeans (and the Germans especially) have some sort of communal responsibility.

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