Travel and Leisure magazines gives the Twin Cities high marks for cleanliness. The Twin Cities come in second nationwide, just after Salt Lake City, Utah and before Portland, Ore., out of a handful of U.S. cities.
New York City is on the opposite end of things, according to the magazine's survey, which separately looks at various quality of life factors.
City Pages has a
piece about the distinction that mentions that Travel and Leisure's readership determined the rankings.
How much trash a city seems to have had a lot to do with the results, it states.