What is Seattle like?

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Grew up in Seattle until I left for Ireland in 1999. I really enjoyed my time there as a kid, growing up in the NW suburbs. It turns out being a kid makes you practically retarded because I went back this year and it's a hellhole. I now live in Minnesota, and it's a world of difference.
 
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Shmidty Werbenmanjenson said:
I mean I've already spent years living outta tents, but there usually is good reason. Felling contract, brushing contract, working beeyards, burning mountains, hunting, searching for meteorites, I can't imagine doing it in a city.

Where do you shit? The best part about being in a tent is you are absolutely alone, often to the level of it being a hazard to your health. A Tent City seems like an oxymoron.
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Thank Fuck For Evil Otto said:
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There's a difference between being "interesting" and "all my family members are genuinely insane, I had no chance for any sort of comfortable survival, and I somehow managed to lowcrawl through a sea of glass to get this far".
 
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To answer the OP's question: "It's like a first-world city and a third-world city had some kind of Star Trek transporter accident." As far as an unheated barn goes... well, one of the reasons that there's so many homeless people there is that the weather is livable all year round.
 
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Kacho said:
Seattle is a fucking hellhole, bro. The price of being in Seattle is constant vigilance. Be on the lookout for piles of shit, used needles, roaming herds of hobos, gang members, deranged danger hairs, and smug bicyclists.
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Are there any cities in the US left that aren't like this?
 
Syaoran Li said:
Given that it's fucking Seattle, I can't say I'm surprised one bit.

Portland was crawling with Neo-Nazis in the 80's and 90's, and even though Rose City Antifa rules that city with an iron fist, I wouldn't be surprised if a lot of them simply went ghost and are simply keeping a low profile. In fact, I'd say Antifa's control over Portland has likely increased the population of closeted far-right and white nationalist sympathizers.

The Aryan Brotherhood got started in California, as did their main "recruitment farm" gangs, the Nazi Lowriders and Public Enemy Number 1
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I would say that West Coast people are just natural tyrants (it's their Yankee blood) which makes them inherently shitty. It's just that their shittiness manifests itself in different ways. The only way to fix the country is to feed all Pacific-Americans to the wildfires.
 
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Growing up I definitely used to feel pretty envious of city life and disliked that I lived in "flyover country"

But today I feel the opposite, I'm quite thankful I don't live in a city.

Maybe there was a time in which city life was pretty cool, but that was before Clownworld.
 
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Dom Cruise said:
Growing up I definitely used to feel pretty envious of city life and disliked that I lived in "flyover country"

But today I feel the opposite, I'm quite thankful I don't live in a city.

Maybe there was a time in which city life was pretty cool, but that was before Clownworld.
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Having experienced both ends of that and all in between I cannot imagine why someone would choose big city life.

Ughubughughughughughghlug said:
I would say that West Coast people are just natural tyrants (it's their Yankee blood) which makes them inherently shitty. It's just that their shittiness manifests itself in different ways. The only way to fix the country is to feed all Pacific-Americans to the wildfires.
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I liked walking around downtown in 1999 when I visited. I imagine with the trends of the last 20 years it's probably much worse now though.
 
I stayed there a couple years ago in Chinatown. The Chinatown area was quaint, but surrounded by cracked out homeless. In a short walk, I visited a locally owned hipster coffee place, a locally owned gunpla building store with displays, and a locally owned retro games store. I then went to a small park to sit down and eat my bagel, and was approached by a strung out drugged up woman who had a very one-sided conversation with me. It put a damper on the whole morning, but at least the weather was cozy.

Seattle is weird in that way, there is a community of locally owned hipster businesses (some of which that have existed since the 80s) struggling to survive against the horde of liberal policies tanking the city. The actual citizens of Seattle are friendly and overly-accepting. Every business owner I talked to had a great story about their life's work. The most touching was the gunpla store owner, who moved from japan in the 80s and opened his store just in time for Gundam to become big in the USA. He now has a dedicated customer base that hangs out at his store and pays him for kits and builds. I don't even like gunpla that much but it was such a cool community to see firsthand. This is the positive vibe of Seattle that is being lost to crime and drug abuse, a community of people with niche interests gathering together.

Seattle also does not feel innately gay, queer, hippy, or hari-krishna drug-loving like San Francisco. It has a classic 2012 Hipster vibe. The skinny guy with the big glasses and stupid tattoos. This is a quiet, strange looking person, who is not in your face showing off their cock at the pride parade. Seattle's drug reputation comes from the flood of already drug abusing homeless who were bussed there and allowed to stay. If anyone does not know, red cities and otherwise smart blue cities will give homeless people bus tickets to move West and get out of town. The Western cities are dumb enough to keep them.

The city is a homeless sanctuary, with easy weather and pushover citizens. The homeless wander around and scare everyone, but never face violence or a real threat. The real citizens hide away and find refuge, but will uncomfortably try to remove a homeless man from wandering into their store.

TLDR: Overpriced coffee hipster vibe being consumed by the homeless drug abusing parasite that flourishes in the West Coast. Good luck finding down to earth people your age. Enjoy the craft beer and coffee. I have some good food recommendations for anyone visiting.
 
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