Why is it that you have to pay to use the Public Restrooms in Europe?

Question

i was there for 2 weeks and i had to pay 30 cents to use the bathroom in Belgium and 50 cents to use the bathroom in Amsterdam

Why do you have to pay to use the Public Bathrooms?

I like in NYC and i have never paid to use the public restrooms until i went to Europe

Answer 1

So you only get clean people with money using them. Rather than homeless, drug addicts etc. And not all public toilets in Europe you have to pay for.

Answer 2

because european bathrooms are clean and not disgusting

Answer 3

I would rather p**s myself than use a public bathroom in Paris where the door is open for all to see, there aren't any sheets to put down on the toilet and men and women share the same bathrooms.  

Answer 4

Coz Europeans are money grabbing b******s - sorry bout that - there was no other way of putting it

You dont have to pay in all european public bathrooms.

Answer 5

what! really?

Answer 6

Yeah, they made me pay in Switzerland. It sucked, but I visited NYC one time and there were no bathrooms. I had to beg people who worked in stores to give me information about bathrooms. They'd lie and say they didn't have any. Then, if I managed to find one, I would be so disgusted that I wouldn't breathe the entire time I was in there. I think I'd rather pay 50 cents.