I hear Seattle has been Kalifornicated. Where else in the U.S. can you pay homage to Lenin? *
* Sunshine photo shopped
Imagine being a conservative in Seattle and being outed.
My childhood friend, best buddy and all that, never had a political viewpoint moved out there about five years ago. Now he’s flaming lib and won’t talk to me anymore. I’d advise against the move.
I’m moving back there in a few months after 4 years in NJ. It’s a fantastic city and a very pretty area.
I was stationed at Ft. Lewis, about fifteen miles removed from Seattle, fifty or so years ago - the city was just beginning to go squishy left about that time, but was still a great place to hang out on weekends - beautiful city of seven hills with lots of attractions like of course the Space Needle, waterfront market, good symphony etc etc depending on your tastes - your daughter might want to look to actually live a bit south of the city, maybe near a place like Tacoma, where she’d have more contact with military types from what’s now Joint Base Lewis-McChord, who are likely to be on the conservative side.....
We do have a few enclaves where Conservatives live ... when is she coming?
My son is stationed in Tacoma Washington very close to Seattle. He can’t stand the weather or the women there. Since it is an army base town they know everything about how much each rank is paid and when they are paid. He described them as it bunch of hippies that want peace, love and all of YOUR money.
Any chance she becomes a commie inside a year??
She should go live there. We need young conservatives to live in the belly of the beast; and see how they do things up close.
He isn’t young, but he is conservative, my nephew could use your help. That would make at leas two of you.
Seattle may be more liberal than gay Frisco and Portland. In early 1990’s a younger relative moved to Portland and his best friend moved to Seattle.
At that time they were both moderate independents. In a decade, both were very liberal.
During the next decade our relative started seeing the reality and the grim weather. He moved back to a conservative area near where he grew up.
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He is now a conservative. His former friend is a Seattle union thug liberal, and his wife is a left wing Eco freak, who makes a lot of money enforcing Eco economic terrorism.
For the first two years back here, our younger relative would go back to Portland for vacations or invite friends down. Now, he stays in this area and doesn’t invite his former friends to freeload off him. The one conservative he knew up there, an uncle of a former friend retired a couple of years ago and moved near our relative. Like our relative he has severed all relationships with former friends and relatives in the Portland area.
She could probably get a spot in one of the outlying Reeducation Camps. I’m not sure how long the waiting list is. Depends on what methods are being used to get the dissent’s minds right. Turnover is everything.
On a serious note, if you don’t mind the rain, it’s a nice place to live. I had an Employee who lived in a small community outside of Seattle. They loved it.
I hear Seattle has been Kalifornicated. Where else in the U.S. can you pay homage to Lenin? *
* Sunshine photo shopped
Imagine being a conservative in Seattle and being outed.
I lived in Seattle for over 45 years and left four years ago to a small farm in central KY I purchased 6 years ago. I have three adult daughters that live in Seattle. Two Downtown and one near lake city way near I-5.
Reasons I left:
1. Politics. You really give up your freedom to live there. And they ignore the will of the people. Even when there is a referendum (People voted to put Kingdome by southcenter. City put it south of downtown anyway. People voted to not build Safeco field. City built it anyway. Etcetera.)
2. Traffic. This is the biggie. I’ve had two separate friends visit and they both said the same thing: It looks like the city expands retail and living quarters and then says, “Gosh, should we build some wider roads? Naw, People will get used to it”.
You have to plan outings around traffic seven days a week.
I bicycle commuted in Seattle for a couple of decades but stopped because texting drivers made it too dangerous.
And one other thing, and a person from New York summed this one up really well. The people in Seattle seem friendly but that is not what it is. They are not “Friendly”. They are “polite”.
Now the positive: IT is a truly beautiful area and there are some great parks. One Christmas day my wife and I went to the tip of the Alki Beach area and watched Killer whales just offshore. There are some awesome little neighborhood communities. We liked to go Downtown at 6:00 on Saturday mornings and watch the Pike Place Market open up and see the people getting and setting up their booths. We’d walk around the Westlake park area and enjoy a Starbucks or Tully’s coffee as we walked around. We would leave before nine so we didn’t have to pay for parking or fight any crowds.
And Freemont is a fun place. There is a place called the White Rabbit. On monday nights the Michael Shrieve band plays there. Michael was the drummer for Santana at Woodstock. The most amazing clip from the movie is his drum solo. He’s gotten better his whole life and his band matches him. They are a serious treat - assuming they are still doing it.
The red hook brewery is also west of Freemont. It’s fun.
Oh, and south lake union has become totally Amazon territory. I think they hire a lot of cheap young people that populate all the apartments in that area. It’s very “hip” there. But at my age (61) I’ve been there, done that. I like to watch the subtle young professional pompousness as a sort of comedic side show. They think they are so “smart and worldly” that it really is kinda fun to watch. Like a living Woody Allen movie.
And then there is the stuff outside of Seattle. Hiking, biking trails, etc. But I ramble.
Frankly, I like Kentucky even more, but if you are young and really want to soak in the urban life and what it has to offer, Seattle is one of your best choices. I like Louisville better but that is because I like its size. Frankly, Knoxville TN might be even better. But both are “just right”. I like to say that, size wise, louisville is to seattle what seattle is to chicago what chicago is to new york.
But the key is that Louisville really doesn’t have the traffic issues (It has them, as do all cities, but not much) and the government is MUCH less intrusive than it is in Seattle.
Oh, and there is no income tax in Seattle, but the sales tax is over 10%.
The scenery is beautiful, but this is literally bluer than any place in the US. It is irretrievably liberal, and every aspect of it defies both logic and the conventional rules of capitalism.
Every major industry in Washington State is backed in whole or in part by Uncle Sugar. They are all massive companies protected in their positions by friends in government.
As for all the venture capital, only 0.4 percent is going anywhere. My Dad showed me a start up (2010) the other day - Nextdoor.com.
This one is based in SF, but it has major Seattle money behind it. It’s facebook for neighborhoods. You join on behalf of a neighborhood. You get the other people in your neighborhood to join. They verify you are actually a part of that neighborhood.
For free, you can chat amongst yourselves, alert each other to crime, let someone you know you have something to give away or sell, etc. Nobody else can see it but folks in your neighborhood.
You can’t use an alias.
Guess what they just came out with?
Neighborhood for Government Agencies!!!!
Huge money is behind it. Nobody pays a nickel, including, they say, the government types, and there is no advertising.
Yet they just got another infusion of huge money last year.
It’s all bad up here.
We still make amazing planes, and we have Airbus on the ropes, but without the Export/Import bank, the whole thing would fold.
The papers all came to their senses about Jay Inslee being governor, and the ALL, every one of them EXCEPT the one in Olympia (the black heart of it all) endorsed Inslee.
He won anyway.
We are a gangrenous limb. Boeing is in the process of moving to South Carolina, but it will take another decade for them to fully pull it off. They are the ONLY thing propping the place up for the middle class.
There is so much stupid money pouring into all these startups it boggles the mind. It’s like nobody cares if any of it hits or not.
The reason for all the robots is because when Boeing leaves, nobody but robots will be able to afford living here. Rent on a studio apt in Seattle is now over a kilobuck.
If your child is mercenary, this is the place. Get in, make a buck, and get out. Else head for Oklahoma, South Carolina, or Kentucky. Beautiful places to live, and the people still have their heads screwed on straight.
I’d leave in an instant if I didn’t have my inlaws slowly dying here. It’s one of the meanest places I’ve ever lived in, and that’s after living two years in Manhattan, a year in Florida, most of my life in CA, and four years in CT.
I thought CT was bad. Western Washington is horrible. Now, you go east for just one hour, maybe two, and everything changes completely. It’s literally the polar opposite. I love Eastern WA. Even Spokane.