You’re being downvoted, but this is an entirely accurate view of Seattle. I just left that hellhole after 22 years.
The last five years have been consistently hell.
Nobody wanted to do anything that will actually help people in the city; just things that allow them to humble brag on Facebook.
Ya, Seattle has died before and came back (and we are actually still growing right now because of the hot economy, as opposed to back then which was a full out recession).
I already know the answer to your question: It is a great city with a lot to offer. I'm happy to own a house nearby for the time being.
Also happy when people like the GP leave this place altogether.
Moreover; whether youre talking about Detroit, London, NY, Baltimore, SF, Seattle, Dubai - _whatever_ - claiming a place where millions of real people live their lives is "dead" or a "shithole" or whatever, is an entirely graceless act. Nobody is forcing you to live here, move on with your life, or I'm going to assume you have some sort of weird insecurity that causes you to do behave this way. Presumably that is why the GP created an account just to make this claim; they didn't want it associated with their other internet identities.
You know millions of people don’t live in Seattle right? In fact, not even a single million people live there. Unless you count all the posers that claim they are from Seattle.
I bet you do. Since you love the city so much, but can’t be bothered to live there.
When people refer to cities it tends to include the immediately surrounding suburbs and exurbs, but honestly I shouldn’t have to explain this to you. Just because you don’t live in shoreline or Renton or whatever doesn’t make you special at all. Have a nice life.
The last five years have been consistently hell. Nobody wanted to do anything that will actually help people in the city; just things that allow them to humble brag on Facebook.
Seattle is dead.