For me, it’s that Seattle is a small town.
It feels like a big city because it’s so dense and metropolitan, but in many ways it functions like a small community.
Word travels fast, and if you’re not careful or simply a dickhead, you can ruin your reputation and social life very easily.
Or, doing things like renting a car on the weekend or finding a doctor; there aren’t endless options like there are in cities with one million people+ within their borders – in other words places with over a million people before you include the metro area.
We also get skipped by touring artists a lot more than I expected.
And the biggest thing that makes it feel like a small town is how sheltered PNW people can be. It’s difficult to describe, but people who have spent their whole lives here seem very mentally protected from how shit the world can be. One small example is how much y’all hate Bellevue or call Lynwood a car-centric shit hole lol.
In much of the country the suburbs don’t even have local bus service. And Bellevue is very corporate and sanitized, but it’s also home to a vibrant immigrant community and amazing restaurants, so I can never hate it.
I’m curious about things y’all have realized after being here for a few years.
submitted by /u/ILIKETHECOLORRED
[link] [comments]