[SkyDancer]

I don’t go there anymore. It used to be fun but not with all the vagrants (I hate the term ‘homeless’) with their filth and garbage all over the streets. They’re druggies who should be in jail then to rehab like in Rhode Island as the video shows. The mayor says there’s nothing wrong. Totally clueless (D).

[cuban leaf]

I lived there for 46 years. I bought a 12 acre farm with new house in rural KY two weeks before the 2008 election and moved there permanently in 2011. four years ago I bought the adjacent 20 acres. It’s now a perfect bug-out site with two knobs, two hollers, two streams and a natural well.

But I did it because I had simply had it with Seattle. The politics and the traffic are what did me in. I bicycle commuted for almost 20 years, but people texting made it too dangerous, and it made my motorcycle dangerous as well. Once put in my car, I found the commute - or any other driving, just way too stressful. I-405 is a parking lot even on weekends, for crying out loud.

And my daughter lived in Ballard a couple of blocks off Market. The homeless camps just really got to them. They don’t live there any more. She and her husband moved to Louisville last summer. They love it here.

Seattle is in the predicament it is in because of the liberal politics. It’s just another example of what happens to a city when Democrats run it. It’s really sad. I was really proud of where I lived. I knew every nook and cranny of that place like the back of my hand.

I don’t miss it at all. It would be like missing your crazy ex-girlfriend. She’s not the girl you first met.

[Bonemaker]

“...but not with all the vagrants (I hate the term ‘homeless’) ...”

Stew bums.

[Trailerpark Badass]

I prefer the more apt term, “bums.”

[Steve_Seattle]

I live just north of Seattle in Shoreline, and the problem isn't as bad here, but it's worsening. The homeless are better hidden, but you do see the occasional tent or two, and some live in cars.

Other evidence of poverty and criminality include the increasing number of shopping carts abandoned on the streets (I counted seven on one street near me the other day), and increasing security in stores and fast-food restaurants.

My local Fred Meyer had to seal-off the alcohol section with a gate, and now all alcohol purchases must be made at a separate cash register inside the gate. General shoplifting is rampant, the store is now filled with security cameras, and shopping carts are now equipped with a feature that freezes the wheels if a security violation is detected when you leave the store.