you forgot the masses of destitute poor who couldn't find jobs because there weren't any, and the vacant housing units becasue people couldn't afford the rents that landlords must charge.
Hey, don't rain on Joel "I'm trying to be more far left than Governor Queen Christine" Connely's socialist/fascist-promoting parade. You'll be hunted down by the PCP and "re-educated".
And please forgive Joel's temporary lapse from his normal left-wing insanity for even insinuating that leftist Seattle is anything but a worker's paradise! A veritable progressive Utopia. A Walden with a rather polluted Pond.