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    Quote Originally Posted by Bobby Stainless View Post
    legal weed is garbage...
    I laf'd...

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    My wife used to be the bookkeeper for an out patient clinic on Capitol Hill that oversaw the mentally ill and helped them integrate into society by living in their own places, getting help with managing the day to day stuff.

    It was much, much cheaper per person than institutionalizing people. But it more or less ended when federal money dried up.
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    Quote Originally Posted by dunfree View Post
    fuck you are a needy little attention whore BS.
    Take it easy tough guy. You'll lose more hair.

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    Quote Originally Posted by stalefish3169 View Post
    Finally, we need to nuke single family zoning restrictions. Portland/Oregon is already getting going on this, but our antiquated zoning laws are largely responsible for the lack of affordable housing. All the boomers that complain about homelessness, but have gotten rich by doing nothing but but watching the price of their close-in houses go up insanely can get fucked.
    This isn’t accurate and is being used as a convenient cudgel by low income housing advocates

    There is a problem, but directing it at neighborhoods that work (urbanistically) will only help ruin the city.

    New zoning is needed but density needs to be balanced and distributed in a way that supports all communities.

    I’m not sure I can fairly elaborate here. It’s an immense topic that isn’t easily simplified.

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    Yeah, Nashville has it's own problems..

    https://www.newschannel5.com/news/on...otten-homeless

    But I hear it's scenic, has lots of recreational opportunities and is not abnormally humid for half the year.

    Enjoyed a nice Seattle night yesterday at my boys baseball game two blocks away. Walking to a (public!) school auction this weekend at a venue nearby. Got all I need food, friends and entertainment-wise within a mile of my house and skiing and riding an hour away. I've lived around enough to know that it checks more boxes than it doesn't.

    Hopefully, though, our incoming council members can take a more balanced approach than their predecessors and devise some real solutions to the growth issues we are experiencing.

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    A few people feel the rain. Most people just get wet.

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    Have you people ever heard of Southwest?

    I can be in Denver in 2.5 hours for 49 bucks. All the skiing, hiking, and mediocre legal pot I can handle.

    Quote Originally Posted by wooley12 View Post
    2300 homeless compared to Seattles 12000... Good point Wooley. As always you kill it.

    About 100k less people in Seattle I believe.

    Trigger post triggers. LOL. And Dunfee with that tough talk. You go boy!

    I've got to go to Atlanta Motorsports Park. Yall have fun arguing what a great place Seattle is.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Bobby Stainless View Post
    Have you people ever heard of Southwest?

    I can be in Denver in 2.5 hours for 49 bucks. All the skiing, hiking, and mediocre legal pot I can handle.



    2300 homeless compared to Seattles 12000... Good point Wooley. As always you kill it.

    About 100k less people in Seattle I believe.

    Trigger post triggers. LOL. And Dunfee with that tough talk. You go boy!
    So did you, at all, once, twice?

    80 days so far for me, but then I have both priorities and commitments.
    Move upside and let the man go through...

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    Quote Originally Posted by Mofro261 View Post
    So did you, at all, once, twice?

    80 days so far for me, but then I have both priorities and commitments.
    Im in Colorado about once a month. I usually stay in Aspen the entire month of Jan.

    That's kind of the neat thing about traveling. I also go to the beach.

    If you love Seattle fantastic. Nashvilles growth has annoyed me some but Ill be out of here soon enough. Its a fun town though. Ask anyone who visits.

    Got to go race cars now.
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    Quote Originally Posted by dunfree View Post
    community mental health services
    Which only work if people go there voluntarily and regularly. Which most of them won't..







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    Quote Originally Posted by DaveTV View Post
    Which only work if people go there voluntarily and regularly. Which most of them won't..
    http://www.chmha.org/ which is underfunded now, has programs where the mentally ill can get help trying to live in a community.

    Having been involved, lots of the clients were trying hard to make this work. In our experience, your claim of "most" is inaccurate.

    Now there aren't enough resources to support the number of people. This type of social service is factors cheaper than institutionalization. Part of the problem is prioritizing tax breaks for the wealthy over social programs. Amazon should have been taxed.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Mofro261 View Post
    Isnt that the exact reason Seattle is dying?

    Cant have it both ways.
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    I've been to Seattle recently. I'm going to Nashville for a wedding in May. I'll settle this.
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    My daughter left Nashville because of all the overt racism and bigotry and moved to Seattle. She was raised right.
    A few people feel the rain. Most people just get wet.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Bobby Stainless View Post
    Have you people ever heard of Southwest?

    I can be in Denver in 2.5 hours for 49 bucks. All the skiing, hiking, and mediocre legal pot I can handle.



    2300 homeless compared to Seattles 12000... Good point Wooley. As always you kill it.

    About 100k less people in Seattle I believe.

    Trigger post triggers. LOL. And Dunfee with that tough talk. You go boy!

    I've got to go to Atlanta Motorsports Park. Yall have fun arguing what a great place Seattle is.
    Awesome! My friend who lives in S. Dakota can fly out too!

    Quick math lesson bs: Seattle Metro Population: 3.7 million. Nashville Metro: 1.9 million.
    Also, the homeless count you mentioned was from King County, not Seattle. It's one of the largest counties in the country too. They don't teach numbers too well in the south apparently.

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    Quote Originally Posted by AustinFromSA View Post
    Hey, why doesn't Seattle just do whatever San Francisco's been doing?! Cuz that's been working!

    I honestly don't know what the solution is, but I don't think ANYBODY really does since SF's been trying pretty much everything imaginable since at least the early 80's and it's worse than ever these days. They've spent untold BILLIONS over the years, and well, here we are. It's certainly not for lack of trying, I'll at least give them that.
    There’s an app for that: https://www.newyorker.com/news/calif...-san-francisco


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    Quote Originally Posted by wooley12 View Post
    My daughter left Nashville because of all the overt racism and bigotry and moved to Seattle. She was raised right.
    Londonderry, VT would have been a better choice.
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    Quote Originally Posted by wooley12 View Post
    My daughter left Nashville because of all the overt racism and bigotry and moved to Seattle. She was raised right.
    ^How you know someone has never been to Nashville.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Yonder_River View Post
    Awesome! My friend who lives in S. Dakota can fly out too!

    Quick math lesson bs: Seattle Metro Population: 3.7 million. Nashville Metro: 1.9 million.
    Also, the homeless count you mentioned was from King County, not Seattle. It's one of the largest counties in the country too. They don't teach numbers too well in the south apparently.
    I just dont really care that much to investigate it. I just posted that Seattle was a shithole to rile people like yourself up.

    I was educated in New England btw.

    Little school called Vanderbilt here in Nashville. Buncha dumbasses.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Bobby Stainless View Post

    Little school called Vanderbilt here in Nashville. Buncha dumbasses.
    Hey, take it easy on those Vanderbilt people.

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    There’s 1 person here who thinks Nashville is better than Seattle on a ski forum.

    That’s truly what he needs to believe so who cares.

    Its like being the only atheist in a synagogue full of devout Christians.

    Nobody cares.

    Seattle sucks, stay away, don’t take that job and relocate here. You WILL regret it.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Buster Highmen View Post
    Part of the problem is prioritizing tax breaks for the wealthy over social programs. Amazon should have been taxed.
    I'm not sure the headcount tax was the right way to do it.

    Taxes are so completely fucked up in this state though (and generally in the country too)... far too regressive and nearly impossible to fix due to the ballot initiative system and Tim fucking Eyman.

    Quote Originally Posted by ill-advised strategy View Post
    If you can see the tall trees and the sparkling puget sound and Mt Rainier and think "this is a shithole"....you kind of suck.
    ^ this.

    Quote Originally Posted by gravitylover View Post
    Is that a disease or something else?
    A disorder of structure or function in a human, animal, or plant, especially one that produces specific symptoms or that affects a specific location and is not simply a direct result of physical injury.

    A particular quality or disposition regarded as adversely affecting a person or group of people.


    It's a disease.
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    Quote Originally Posted by AK47bp View Post
    Its like being the only atheist in a synagogue full of devout Christians.
    ...wearing a KKK outfit, singing negro spirituals, in Portland.
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    Quote Originally Posted by PNWbrit View Post
    Tim fucking Eyman.
    But my car tabs!

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    But my car tabs!
    Fuck car tabs, I have Dan Samas

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