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"I was flying coast-to-coast to Seattle and a few minutes after take-off the only other dude in my row asked if i could get his luggage and jacket from the bin for him once we hit cruising."
"Adam implies some kind of weird thing happened in Seattle at 39:30 of this episode"
"I just saw a video where a woman claimed that "a black woman invented grunge" because there was one Seattle punk band (among many) fronted by a black woman. Ahead of her time and under appreciated, sure, but it's insane to suggest that one person "invented" a genre with a pretty nebulous definition "
"I've lived here for years, went to their state school that was 30% Asian and go online to see self described 'alt' people in their early 20s talking about seattle like it's a racist hellscape."
"I mean block after block of people literally passed out on the sidewalk, people talking to themselves, people stumbling around, people shitting and pissing on the sidewalk in front of businesses. Many of the businesses have installed 10' tall fences with fucking razor wire presumably to keep these p"
"A year's worth of weekly meetings with the French team and the Seattle team."
"But somehow these apartment rents rival Portland and Seattle!! Who the fuck would pay to live here? Go 30 minutes outside of city center and you've got cookie cutter subdivisions with sparse little clusters of commercial space that rent/sell for so much that no businesses move in"
"Whether it's college students in New Hampshire or NYC art girls or a random house of roommates in Maryland, a house full of Asian techies in Seattle, or a summer camp in New England, why am I perpetually being socially rejected everywhere as a girl who's maybe a 5/10?"
"This was probably in 2006 or 2007. I was walking through the streets of Seattle during the early afternoon with two of my buddies. I really wanted a cigarette so I just walked up to a random middle aged dude smoking Marlboro Reds and asked him for one."
"I know my city isn't bad comparatively but how do people in like NYC or Seattle deal with this?? rents are like 4k there for a 1br.."
"I was scolded by a stranger for not wearing a mask outside. An acquaintance of my friend I met at a bar scolded me for not using neo-pronouns (I called some micro celebrity they when apparently they go by xir or whatever). The people there in general just seem so angry all the time."
"I know this has been addressed here in the past, but in all seriousness, there's no light in their eyes. Beautiful part of the country, but it's a city full of sims characters"
"the average american who is willing to visit a place like Rio is generally on the liberal side, young and probably from California, Seattle or NYC."
"Visited 4 times; 2018, 2019, 2021, and 2023. Each time got progressively worse. Somehow made Seattle look normal"
"I'm staying in Capitol Hill for a bit, in downtown Seattle. All I see are tech bros, rich Asians, and hordes of blue-haired people. I went to do tourist things after work, and all I see are rich Chinese flaunting their Loewe bags. It's like every corner I turn, there's a new Tesla or a group of insu"
"I've never encountered this anywhere else I've been. Almost every single place I went there charged a 20-25% 'service fee' on every bill with some nebulous comment about how it's going towards providing a decent wage for everyone working there, and then had the bartender or server let you know that "
"New York, LA, Chicago, Philadelphia, San Francisco, Seattle, Washington DC, Boston, Miami, and Minneapolis All the other "big cities" are either shells of their former selves and can no longer support urban life or are post-war suburban sprawl sunbelt cities."
"recently bought something from a secondhand website and had to file a return case and i was dreading it because the seller was from seattle and i knew i was going to catch an attitude even tho i was in the right. don't know if this is a statewide issue because I've only dealt with people from the se"
"it wasn't a fucking anarchist project and there weren't warlords or businesses being exploited, it was just a disorganized group of people who had no idea what they were doing occupying like four blocks of Seattle."
"Holy shit, *every single job listing* lists the salary ranges, benefits listing, and a clear description of what the job entails. Most of the positions I've been applying to are unionized too! The cost of living may be higher up there but I'm frequently floored at how reasonable the wages are too."
"Every time I visit my brother in Albuquerque though we've both noticed just how many California/Portland/Seattle libs are moving there."
"I swear every music video has like 20 top comments that are like: "As a gay, depressed alcoholic victim of child abuse living in Seattle, this song really speaks to me." or something like that."
"I know it's pretty cliche and hacky to talk about how much hipsters suck, but there is a very specific strain of cuntiness in the Seattle metro area that makes me desperate to leave."
"…was that he recounted the whole thing on his Monday Morning Podcast like it was just another gig in Seattle."
"Start of the movie with River walking about Seattle made me really nostalgic. That's how I remember it looking when I was a kid and would go visit."
"Maybe it just took an extra century for 'the closing of the frontier' to fully take effect, and maybe Silicon Valley + Seattle + Hollywood being the leaders of American culture and industry have destroyed what remained of its identity as a rugged place."
"If you had to choose out of Boston, L.A., Chicago, Seattle or Denver, which city would you want to live in?"
"I get on the light rail from the Amtrak station (photos from the train coming tomorrow) headed to the airport, where I'm sitting in a car with a couple of (presumably) she/theys with septum piercings and colored hair... I overhear another blue-haired septum-pierced wammin using therapyspeak and woke"
"Seattle and Portland are on the decline. Austin's had its boom. Denver is old news."
"Granted this was in Seattle, but still. Nature is healing."
"Or was he so 80s Seattlepilled that he just didn't know how hot he was"
"The guy moved out a short while after that, wound up in Seattle, and converted to transgenderism, so I have been misgendering him this whole time."
"In Seattle yesterday Ruth Dalton, an 80 year old woman working as a dog walker was murdered in a car-jacking. There was a small dog in the car with her that was also stabbed to death. The suspect has 8 prior felony convictions including one for vehicular manslaughter."
"The Flaming Lips played in Seattle on Saturday night. Today, I saw a post on r/Seattle that the guitarist's 16 year old daughter has been missing since Saturday morning. She's a teenage girl who went missing over 48 hours ago in an unfamiliar city, and they JUST released a missing person's poster."
"Me and two other guys are trying to find a reasonably priced place around the Seattle Metro area and it's fucking impossible. We all work between 40 and 50 hours per week, and we would still barely be scraping by."
"Seattle would be good because a lot of my family is there; I also am possibly considering Denver."
"As a kid I would always hear the news talking about Capitol Hill, so I thought that Bill Clinton lived in Seattle."
"Million dollar gorgeous house in Ballard with giant picture windows and it overlooks an encampment with people openly shitting on the sidewalk. Nimbys need to work harder this sucks."
"Fuck Seattle. Yes, it Hendricks gin, but still how the fuck can you justify asking for $27 for a simple gin martini? Fuck this no good town. You can't even get a late night taco here. This town has no character. Yeah you had the grunge revolution, but that was fucking it, Seattle. Just keeping holdi"
"And good lord the covid stuff is obnoxious here. I'm vaccinated and generally for the vaccine but having to have everyone in my group pull out a bunch of documents and show them just ruins the rush of going into a bar."
"Around this time Portland was quite unfashionable and the best labels and bands seemed to be from Seattle and Olympia, and Boise seemed very distant from everything but had Built to Spill."
"another guy who had a biz inspecting soil of golf clubs in Palm Springs and Seattle and told me about all the fab gays he gets to hang out w, very jealous"
"I saw Patti Smith with Sleater-Kinney opening on the Seattle waterfront ages ago. She played this song and the crowd chanted the chorus. It felt really weird that 5000 mostly white people were doing this. I am sure the crowds outside the venue could hear that. Looking back it probably looked like a "
"i spent a summer in seattle with these techie-types last year, and i was really depressed throughout all of it because it seemed like their lives were so ... consumptive??? like they were focused on "consuming" the best possible exercise routine (whether that's barry's or training for a marathon or "
"Another downside is that a lot of these Asian kids have pretty cultureless hobbies like consooming a la one of those hiker rock-climbing bros who, according to rsp, are currently in the process of shitting up Denver and Seattle."
"1. First 48 2. Iron Chef 3. Hard Knocks 4. Kitchen Nightmares 5. Taxicab Confessions 6. Antiques road show 7. Nova 8. Real World (only the 90's ones like Seattle and San Francisco) 9. Cops 10. Dirty Jobs"
"Sure it's an 'extremely online' strategy, but I went to BLM protests both peaceful and less so for most of last year in Seattle and the end result has been a reinforced democrat status quo, a gold-rush for both race-essentialist grifters and the alt-right, and everyone feeling more divided and scare"
"I got offered a role that'll pay $60k a year, which isn't a crazy amount but it's almost double what I was making in Indiana so I'm psyched - I start Monday. Like I said in my last thread, I feel like you ppl truly shouldn't how pro-worker this city is for granted."
"I went to Minneapolis, Portland, Seattle and Kenosha to see for myself what was going on. I'll be honest, I was outraged (like I think most of the country was) for George Floyd. That's why I went out there. But as time went on, it became clear just how much of a joke the entire thing was."
"Born and raised in western Washington State, I've been to northern Michigan quite a bit to visit family but I just visited Detroit for the first time and I have to say, it seems WAY safer than Seattle, San Francisco, Los Angeles, or Portland."
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