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Thread: Seattle is dying
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03-20-2019, 12:28 PM #1
Seattle is dying
Stumbled across this below - wow I had no idea. (Disclaimer: I have never been to Seattle although it is on my "short list" of places to visit.) Is this story exaggerated?
https://komonews.com/news/local/komo...I12Zcu9JrFWV3A
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03-20-2019, 12:35 PM #2
If it is I blame Nirvana.
...and Starbucks"timberridge is terminally vapid" -- a fortune cookie in Yueyang
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03-20-2019, 12:43 PM #3
I left 10 years ago because it was not longer the city in which I was born & raised.
My perspective is one of a native who lived there 40+ years so maybe I'm more cynical than others who are younger residents but I would have to say that the city has changed an IMO not for the better. I'm afraid the Seattle of my youth is and will be no more.
My family immigrated to Seattle in the 1930s. I've got great pictures of my Grandfather riding his horses down Greenwood Avenue. He and his brothers had a car park garage in downtown Seattle where freeway park now stands. I have so many great memories of growing up there, riding my horse on the beach at Carkeek Park, going to the Bite of Seattle and Hydro races at Greenlake, being able to drive from north Seattle to downtown in 20mins, not having to lock your doors and walking to school or the corner drug store, the local park with my bothers & friends without a worry (or riding our bikes everywhere).
I suppose it different everywhere now, not just a Seattle issue. After all, it's not 1970 anymore.“When you see something that is not right, not just, not fair, you have a moral obligation to say something. To do something." Rep. John Lewis
Kindness is a bridge between all people
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03-20-2019, 12:44 PM #4Registered User
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https://www.city-journal.org/seattle...f7aMF6RVDXmEiI
Follow the money
The "homeless service industry" has been monetized
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03-20-2019, 12:44 PM #5
The homeless(ness) problem in Seattle is huge.
Seattle is not dying.
It's absolutely changing too fast to keep up properly or healthily.. housing, transport, schools etc.
It has always been a boom town though. And nearly always poorly governed.
(only been here 20 years - this week in fact - so others will have far more perspective on it)
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03-20-2019, 12:53 PM #6
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03-20-2019, 12:56 PM #7
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03-20-2019, 01:07 PM #8
Place is totally dead.
Best to just head to Portland.
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03-20-2019, 01:19 PM #9"fuck off you asshat gaper shit for brains fucktard wanker." - Jesus Christ
"She was tossing her bean salad with the vigor of a Drunken Pop princess so I walked out of the corner and said.... "need a hand?"" - Odin
"everybody's got their hooks into you, fuck em....forge on motherfuckers, drag all those bitches across the goal line with you." - (not so) ill-advised strategy
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03-20-2019, 01:20 PM #10
i know you don’t want change
but nothing is ever what it used to be
grab the rope, hoist yourself up
and drift like ants, in hole’s water
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03-20-2019, 01:22 PM #11
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03-20-2019, 01:24 PM #12“When you see something that is not right, not just, not fair, you have a moral obligation to say something. To do something." Rep. John Lewis
Kindness is a bridge between all people
Dunkin’ Donuts Worker Dances With Customer Who Has Autism
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03-20-2019, 01:24 PM #13Scientists now have decisive molecular evidence that humans and chimpanzees once had a common momma and that this lineage had previously split from monkeys.
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03-20-2019, 01:27 PM #14“When you see something that is not right, not just, not fair, you have a moral obligation to say something. To do something." Rep. John Lewis
Kindness is a bridge between all people
Dunkin’ Donuts Worker Dances With Customer Who Has Autism
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03-20-2019, 01:30 PM #15
Aren't you getting the Sockeye's in 2020?
"timberridge is terminally vapid" -- a fortune cookie in Yueyang
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03-20-2019, 01:37 PM #16Scientists now have decisive molecular evidence that humans and chimpanzees once had a common momma and that this lineage had previously split from monkeys.
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03-20-2019, 01:52 PM #17
There can only be one Kraken and she's ours.
"timberridge is terminally vapid" -- a fortune cookie in Yueyang
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03-20-2019, 01:54 PM #18
Shhh....
Dammit.
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03-20-2019, 02:13 PM #19
That's funny.
When we moved here there was book a (like I said it was a while back) we relied on somewhat - A Guide to Seattle Newcomers - almost like a Frommer's travel guide but aimed at living in the city rather than being there on vacation.
Most of it consisted of bemoaning how Microsoft and Starbucks had already ruined it... Early editions no doubt said the same about the Gold Rush, Logging, Boeing.....
When I go back to London these days I see a similar amount "Dying" I certainly don't feel at home in my home town now... I do wonder how I'd have felt about those changes if I'd stayed.
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03-20-2019, 02:34 PM #20
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03-20-2019, 02:34 PM #21
Classy.. same youtuber is also hosting a documentary entitled "Waffen SS they fought for Europe".
before the edit anyway.... original was this https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j6mxshAhJtw
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03-20-2019, 02:44 PM #22
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03-20-2019, 02:49 PM #23
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03-20-2019, 03:14 PM #24
Good people on both sides argument?
Give us your take on what has changed in London why doncha
Vast amounts of new construction particularly the skyscrapers in the city center mean the character of the city has changed massively, that really gets my equilibrium off whack... does even when I see a modern London skyline in a movie. It's even busier, more crowded than it was, Big new infrastructure projects... a new bridge across the Thames right where my office view was.
The problems pointed out in it are not unique to Seattle.
London also has a similar homelessness issue.. caused by similar things as here and causing similar problems.
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03-20-2019, 03:24 PM #25Registered User
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The urban decay and general lawlessness that is tolerated is pretty shocking, and that's from someone who grew up with plenty of gunfire in Chicago. There's an attitude as if it's a badge of honor of a 'real city' to have junkies and petty crime or something. Property crime rate here is ridiculously high compared to other US cities. Just got another email about needles on the school playground today.
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