Every time some older gen Xer wearing a Seattle SuperSonics hat takes the time to explain to me how bad the city is compared to whatever time in the past when they were in their mid 20s, it always confuses me a bit. I’m from Texas, from which me and my brother had to flee for a variety of reasons including “trans” and “the collapsing climate”. I know that my bar is low, but Seattle might as well be Tokyo to me
Seattle has some of the best public transit in the country, and is actively improving it. There’s a solid arts scene, tons of outdoor activities, you essentially never have to be bored in Seattle. While there’s often visible homelessness, I feel that people who complain about that here fail to realize 1. Just how much safer Seattle still is and feels compared to most cities 2. The fact that that problem has gotten worse everywhere else in the country at a similar rate.
The nature here is beautiful, the weather is perfect (even the rain isn’t even real rain most of the time) people are friendly or at least pretend to be to my satisfaction, it’s a great place
Like yeah the city’s not perfect, but it’s better than most places you could live in the US right now. Like yeah ok, I get that there used to be more thrift stores, and SLU was like different or something, but it’s hard to escape the feeling that a lot of these complaints are frankly hipsters trying to feel like they got a cool and special experience that they get to hold over people’s heads. Seattle is a great city, it’s wonderful to live in, and I hope its residents broadly understand how fortunate they are to be here
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