"The Truman Show", a film that features a squeaky clean town that turns out to be the plaything of a megalomaniacal television producer, has not helped.
Vancouver is a squeaky clean town, like all of Canada that I have ever seen — the glass office buildings reflecting the sky color, the waterside filled with flag-flying yachts and motorboats that are so well kept they look like they've never been used except for advertising, and the downtown without litter of any kind, and everyone going about their business so as not to disturb anyone else.
"Even if you move from a beautiful, clean town in the country… the perception is that moving to the city, even to a slum, is moving up," Araceli said.
I saw a clean, safe town, with clean streets and good schools.
Getting off to a clean start yesterday, Bird Town tracked the early leader, Randaroo, before taking over a half-mile into the race.
We rode a clean, elevated train across town, and then switched to a gondola, which thrillingly lofted us over the city and onto the hillside favela of Santo Domingo.
He is a decorated second world war veteran and a clean cop in a dirty town.
For example, if a council in one town imposes a clean air zone and its neighbour doesn't, will traffic (and the emissions they cause) merely move to the cheaper location?
This week more than 50 Labour councils, coordinated by the shadow energy and climate change secretary Lisa Nandy, were proud to pledge their commitment to create a clean energy boom across our towns and cities.
