Avoid Seattle
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7/22/2006
I've lived in Seattle for over ten years and I am glad to be moving away from it.
Seattle is a very clean city, has fresh air, little crime, and the people are polite. However, IMHO Seattle is a boring place to live
and although people are polite they tend to keep themselves to themselves and I would descrive them as "politely unsociable".
It is VERY difficult to get into any social circles here. Most people I've talked to only have, at most, two friends outside
their family unit. Most socialization is within the family unit and rarely extends outside of this.
Where I grew up I knew all the people down my street. You could wave to them and say good morning and they would wave back.
However, if you try and do that in Seattle, they would think you're crazy and give you a strange look and speculate what criminal motive
you have. Seattlites are extremly paranoid and afraid of eachother.
Seattle drivers are bad. They never seem to bother to indicate which direction they want to go and expect you to yield for them. Seattle drivers, when they see an amber traffic light
slam on the gas and hope to beat the red light. In bad weather, when there is poor vision,
Seattle drivers actually drive faster, don't ask me why ??? Also in the busy rush hour traffic, if you are nice enough to let someone into your lane they rarely thank you.
This is the same behaviour everywhere. If you are in a mall and open a door for someone, most of the time Seattlites will walk straight through and will not thank you or even look at you.
Seattle predestrians are not that good either. They would walk right in front of oncoming traffic without first looking, with their heads bowed down.
Seattle predestrians say they have the right of way; and this may be so, but if you are run over by a car you could end up dead.
Overall Seattle is full of arrogant, self-absorbed, inconsiderate people.
In summary, if someone was to ask me if I would recommend Seattle as a place to live I would say NO. Seattle is only good if you are unsociable in nature and and want to live the life of a hermit.
If you are looking to make new friends in Seattle, you might as well give up now (yes, it is that hard).
Sai | Sammamish, WA