Seattle should be walled up and sacked. Out side of the city limits the puget sound area is really awesome.
Good, pile on the taxes-in fact limit income to 100k per year. That would be wonderful; they will be like Venezuela in a few years. At least there will be money to be made by smuggling toilet paper and toothpaste.
I moved away from Seattle (my home of 46 years) about six years ago. I just got back from a two week visit. My wife was afraid I was going to die of an anurism every time I got behind the wheel of a car.
I survived, but it will be a while before I try to experience that mess again. When I left, Mercer and westlake were bad. Now they are atrocious. And the bike lanes are insane. I say that as someone that bike commuted in that congestion hell-hole for almost 20 years.
That city is run by liberals who cut their teeth on 1960’s “brave new world” type of Sci-fi novels and are trying to speed up the city’s journey to those mindlessly stupid utopian dreams. Current generation be damned.
They should learn a lesson from the USSR trying to force culture’s hand. It will not end well, though there are a lot of cranes on the skyline as I type this.