I’ve lived in the city off and on since 1980. Back in the day Seattle was just our own little grimy rainy thing that had its own character and charm. Then in the 90s it was the musical creativity capital of the world and that seemed like it was going to stick, like a Nashville 2.0 sort of thing, but with grunge and punk, etc.
It feels like the city made a turn into Bay Area 2.0 about when Amazon was getting huge and taking over retail globally. Now when walking around downtown, I could just as well be in San Fran walking around downtown.
If a bloke can’t stumble into Dick’s late at night and getting puking-levels of stuffed on Dick’s Deluxe Burgers for under $10, then what is the point of this city existing? Might as well just push it into the Sound and build a city of Dick’s burger joints.
If the super rich moved out, hopefully from the state, and property prices came back down from the moon across the board, it would really help to bring back some of the charm this city once had before the corporate soulless takeover. I also even see it creeping into the communities around Seattle that are losing all character and turning into the same crap.
Anyway, commence the usually-Reddit replies from people who moved here from somewhere else, mad that I dogged on their home city. /s
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