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.
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.
I will mention Spokane too.
Having lived in Tennessee, we often went to the Carolinas—beautiful, but whether she would just set off to an area where she knows no one, I am not sure.
Thanks for the information :)