Attitude and livability
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10/4/2008
If you are thinking of moving here, I would highly advise against it. Seattle is or rather used to be a fantistic place to live, before "Sunset" magazine reported what a great place it was. Ever notice when someone is telling you of all the great places to live, it is never where they live? That's because it is like giving some place the "kiss of death". Yes, we do have a better than normal educated population. {After all, we've always known what a great place we were living in}. The majority of the poplation were natives and it was very friendly, yes, even to outsiders! After Sunset's artical however, it seemed like every low life, opportunistic, or developement crazy started to move here, especially Californicators and East Coast Snobs. They all talked about the terrible things they had left behind and immediatly started trying to change it back into that exact place, all the while making a dollar off of every thing in sight. Yes, we have/had wonderful a natural enviroment all around us, and the rest of the state as far as that goes, what's left that hasn't been been paved over, developed, torn down or cut down to improve view's for some over priced developement. The night life, musical enviroment and entertainment opptions were great. Several famous musicians used to visit here to relax and several other's got there start here. Prices were very affordable and many of the amenities,public and other wise were free, {I grew up on Green Lake and used to walk through Woodland Park Zoo on my way to and from school}, till outsiders started crying about what ecnomic opportunities were going to waste and how all the housing and land were underpriced, I used to own a rental and every time I put it up for rent I had several calls wanting to buy it or manage it by raising the price. There are so many reasons I would advise against moving here, expenses, food, housing, transportation and there are not as many jobs as they would like you to believe, we are an labor union state, and a still primarily democratic population. So if you want to come here to change us or to turn us into New York or L.A. or to make your fortune by walking over others don't bother you're not going to be happy and it's probably not for you. And if you don't want to be told to back where you came from, change your license plates and don't brag about how great it was back there. As a lot of natives will tell you, "If you don't like it here, why don't you go the hell back where you came from?", and we've gotten so we're not too shy about it, either. Good luck finding a place you love. Somewhere else!!
Nik | North Lynnwood, WA