Every city is becoming a hell hole.
I was born here, and I’ve lived here (in the area, if not the city proper) all my life, long before Seattle became what it is now both politically and socially. I stay here because of my family, my children and grandchildren. I can’t stand the FR bigots who judge me because of where I live.
Just watch the tv show ‘Frasier’ based in Seattle.
I wonder if the show would have been if shot today?
Under the viaduct in seattle back then.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=o7h5KfJxeQE
Seattle was not all great then, the heroin was starting to flood in
As nice as it looked, Ted Bundy and the Green River Killer were on the loose.
It seems downright quaint at this point.
Years ago I had hoped to someday visit Seattle and Portland; I guess CHAZ got that completely out of my system.
“Catch the elevator, an outrageous two dollars!”
In 1980 my Seattle cousins were still wearing bell-bottom corduroys with their flannel shirts. I thought they were so backwards. Then ten years later, everyone was wearing flannel and corduroy.
In 1973-1974, I worked a lot in Seattle, Tacoma, Everett…and further south in Longview, further west in Port Angeles, and further East in Wenatchee. I really enjoyed my time in the PNW back then. I went back to Seattle for a business trip around 2015 and was so saddened to see the changes, all for the worse. We drove through Portland last year and it was worse than ever. Homeless camps extending 10 to 15 miles south of the city on I-5.
Take note of the body styles of the people.
Most people are much thinner back then.
I was assigned with the Air Force in Spokane WA from 1976-1980 and made several trips to Seattle during that time. Seattle was a beautiful, clean city at that time. Ditto for Portland. Very sad what’s happened since.
WOW! Seattle really does look like it was a nice place to live about 40 years ago. Its a shame to see what far Left wackos have done to it and San Francisco and LA all of which used to be gorgeous.
and I’ll add I’m also amazed at some here parroting the Globalist/Corporate Media talking points that Ukraine is a democracy!, Zelensky is a Churchillian figure, the government in Kiev certainly hasn’t been shelling those two eastern provinces thousands of times for years on end and we must get involved militarily to save the New World Order.
When I first came to Seattle in 1963 it seemed a magical place - I can’t tell you why it seemed that way - it was just my thought at the time. I lived for a month on Queen Anne Hill in a run down apartment which I fixed up in exchange for rent.
Work was hard to come by and I ran out of money so I drove my VW bug back to the East Coast with my last $10 and a Texaco credit card, with one stop in Salt Lake City to get the bug’s burned value replaced at a Texaco repair shop.
When I returned in 1972, it seemed much the same. You could walk around without problems anywhere. There were no homeless camps that I saw. I lived in an apartment a block south of the zoo.