Posted on 11/11/2021 11:17:55 AM PST by algore
Tourism was a big part of Seattle's revenue. I don't think you wife is alone in her expectations. I have seen other people interviewed who said something similar.
A beautiful city brought low by incompetent Dems and their politics.
The force is down 350 pre-covid firings.
Great old newspaper cartoon of Frank and Ernest.
They are walking on the sidewalk downtown and see a police car going by.
“They say this is the most dangerous part of town.”
Police car has sign: Officers Carry No More Than $20 In Cash.
Seattle = SHITHOLE
These Dem controlled cities are no more dangerous than a guerilla fighters’ battle zone in a Middle East civil war.
Wear a Kevlar vest and a metal helmet and get over it, Dems.
Seattle City Hall, the King County Administration Building, and the King County Courthouse are all in the “government” section of downtown, the southern end near where there are a lot of homeless encampments, some right on sidewalks, others in parks and the freeway corridor. It’s what my son calls a “sketchy” area.
My parents live in Everett.
Dad died in January, and I flew out to spend some time with him.
It had been a few years since I was last there, but downtown looked like a war zone.
So long as there are more statues to Lenin in Seattle than in Moscow, expect more of the same.
I presume people still vote Democrat there.
I remember playing tourist about 30 years ago, took my family to a hotel just outside Pike Place Market. I was horrified at the conditions there, and the criminal element that came out at night. My kids thought it was "cool". Vowed to never visit Seattle again. So now it's worse? Yikies.
What are the crime stats in the suburbs? Are they effected by the city crime wave?
I just remember going to Pioneer Square, at night, raining, alone and female, just enjoying the ambiance of the evening. Nobody bothered me. I’ll never forget that great time but no more. When I get back from my flights and dad picks me up, we go the long way round past Olympia on I-5 rather than even driving past Seattle on I-5 to the ferry.
Seattle voted for this.
I went to a conference in Seattle close to 10 years ago. That was my opinion then.
I worked a lot in pulp & paper all over Washington and Oregon in the early 1970s. It was a magical, idyllic place. Extreme liberalism does this everywhere and the solutions the pols always propose is “we need more extreme liberalism.”
( got a 68 4001 rickenbacker bass at one for $375)
Those days are indeed gone!
But cities other than SF have done worse. Seattle, Portland, Philadelphia, Wash DC, Atlantic City, San Diego, etc. look much worse. East-coast cities run by Democrats are scary as hell, and much worse. They have let crime run rampant in downtown and tourist areas.
My wife, daughter and I used to spend a couple thousand a year on Seattle tourism. Ball games. Dinners. Art museums. pre-Christmas week end shopping. Theatre. Hotel.
No more.
Multiply that by who knows what and that is the impact on casual tourism that has gone away. Including us.
Just don't stop in Oly. On a per capita basis, possibly worse than Seattle. 500 cars in the county stolen through October. There is no petty shop lifting. Just legalised looting. Vagrant camps every where there is green space with a vagrant camp related murder or two a week in the county ;-(
We stay on I-5 and don’t get into town, just loop around it to get to Hwy 8 then to Hwy 101.
Issue employees a handgun. Let them use it.
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