Seattle is dying

[Meathelmet]

I've been to Seattle recently. I'm going to Nashville for a wedding in May. I'll settle this.

To make things quantifiable, you have to calibrate your OgdenMeterTM as well so you'll have some traveling to do..

[Bobby Stainless]

Doesn't take much to rustle up some Seattle jimmies.

[riser4]

Londonderry, VT would have been a better choice.

Hey, don't encourage people to move to VT. Oh, wait, Londonderry is actually in North Massachusetts. Carry on.

[ill-advised strategy]

“Seattle is dying” ...it’s a lot to unpack if you really dig a little

So what is Seattle to you:
-The setting?
-The people?
-Expectations of lifestyle?
-Work situations?
-the surrounding area or just Seattle city limits?

What does “is” mean:
-“Looks like”?
-“People are saying”?

What does dying mean:
-changing for the worse?
-individual human deaths?


What I get out of this is: “people are saying” “expectations of lifestyle” —around seattle—-are “changing”

People are saying their lifestyles around Seattle are changing for the worse.
Really not the same as Seattle is Dying.

[Timberridge]

To make things quantifiable, you have to calibrate your OgdenMeterTM as well so you'll have some traveling to do..

I haven't been to Ogden, is it like Provo?

[ill-advised strategy]

The Ogden unit isn’t about comparing places with Ogden.
It’s only named after Ogden.

You could use it as a one-off, if-then comparison. Such as, hypothetically:
“If Seattle is 1 Ogden, Nashville is at least 3 Ogdens.”

[ill-advised strategy]

Although, at the risk of muddying the water on this frustrating subject, now is a great time to use the Ogden scale to compare places with Ogden, because Ogden appeared to me the other week to have moved down to around 1 Ogden....which may or may not help, depending on how many Icemans of obfuscation you’ve previously experienced in trying to assimilate The Ogden Scale.

[Buster Highmen]

Ogden has normalized.

[Timberridge]

The Ogden unit isn’t about comparing places with Ogden.
It’s only named after Ogden.

You could use it as a one-off, if-then comparison. Such as, hypothetically:
“If Seattle is 1 Ogden, Nashville is at least 3 Ogdens.”

So it's like a currency?

[Brock Landers]

Wait...it’s not Londonberry?? Or is that in NH??

at the risk of muddying the water on this frustrating subject,.

Hahaha. Are Ogdens measured in fractions or decimals. Asking for a friend.

[Buster Highmen]

Wait...it’s not Londonberry??




Hahaha. Are Ogdens measured in fractions or decimals. Asking for a friend.

Only after group completion and extending to include equivalence classes of solutions for multiplicative equations. e.g. (a,b)~(c,d) <=> a*d==b*c where b!=0!=d

[ncskier]

So it's like a currency?

Like a currency that is not pegged to the gold standard though. Apparently it floats in value

[glademaster]

One thing that I find really puzzling about Pugetopolis/western Washington in general is how defensive people who are from here get when you point out the obvious, undeniable flaws or drawbacks to the area. I'm far more used to the "yeah, this place totally sucks, you should probably move somewhere cooler." Instead, people here get apoplectic when you point out that traffic fucking blows, or that western Washington is not the pinnacle of human civilization, outdoor recreation and cultural opportunities. It's weird.

[iceman]

....depending on how many Icemans of obfuscation you’ve previously experienced...

I find 1 is generally plenty for most folks.

[Buster Highmen]

One thing that I find really puzzling about Pugetopolis/western Washington in general is how defensive people who are from here get when you point out the obvious, undeniable flaws or drawbacks to the area. I'm far more used to the "yeah, this place totally sucks, you should probably move somewhere cooler." Instead, people here get apoplectic when you point out that traffic fucking blows, or that western Washington is not the pinnacle of human civilization, outdoor recreation and cultural opportunities. It's weird.

That's the newb syndrome.

[Timberridge]

Wait...it’s not Londonberry?? Or is that in NH??

LondonDERRY, for fucks sake. Its like Seattle, minus a whole bunch of stuff.

[ncskier]

His reaction to your point which is put to him often is "All life has equal value"

While I agree all life has equal value, benefiting in a 0 income tax state your whole life and stepping over needles and drugged and drunk transients while on you way to your private jet seems odd to non 100 billionaire like myself.

[glademaster]

That's the newb syndrome.

That's been my experience talking to born and bred locals. Unless the newb syndrome is me finding the defensiveness weird.

[DBdude]

One thing that I find really puzzling about Pugetopolis/western Washington in general is how defensive people who are from here get when you point out the obvious, undeniable flaws or drawbacks to the area. I'm far more used to the "yeah, this place totally sucks, you should probably move somewhere cooler." Instead, people here get apoplectic when you point out that traffic fucking blows, or that western Washington is not the pinnacle of human civilization, outdoor recreation and cultural opportunities. It's weird.

it's a great place to live, but great googily moogily, the traffic was unbearable twenty years ago

[AK47bp]

Nobody goes to Seattle anymore, too crowded.

[Brock Landers]

LondonDERRY, for fucks sake. Its like Seattle, minus a whole bunch of stuff.

The one in VT or the one in NH?

[Buster Highmen]

That's been my experience talking to born and bred locals. Unless the newb syndrome is me finding the defensiveness weird.

Must be a small sample size; my inlaws are several generation locals numbering in the dozens and they recognize the mess.

[DBdude]

Nobody goes to Seattle anymore, too crowded.

too expensive...

[Timberridge]

The one in VT or the one in NH?

VT. The NH Londonderry I can't recommend.

[DBdude]

lol

how many ludlows is londonderry?