A place for the wealthy
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1/25/2021
I was born in Seattle, WA in 1963, our family moved to three more states in my youth. My parents moved back to Seattle in the late '80s, my brother moved to Montana, and my sister and I moved back to Seattle in 1991. It was pretty crowded in 1991 but was still a beautiful place to live, Seattle was the hip place, Bellevue was dull on a weekend. In roughly the last 5 years it has progressively become a place I would not recommend to come and visit. The last 2 years have been the worst I have ever witnessed, and to top it off the cost of living has skyrocketed.
The police want to help but have their hands tied, due to the City Council that is still for some odd reason still calling the shots. I will not go near downtown anymore, it is dangerous not to mention depressing as hell.
All along the city freeways, in the city, the outskirts, you will see RVs & tents, people walking around out of their minds on drugs, the will attack and have killed at random as someone was just walking down the sidewalk, the other day a person was planting flowers downtown and a guy came up and kick her in the face (she ended up in the hospital with the front of her face crushed) and has been seen doing this to others as well. This is just one example, the police are leaving in droves as they have been told to not arrest people doing drugs (they can shoot right in front of a police officer), they can not arrest a homeless person for busting the windowfront of a business and then proceeded to loot and the list goes on. The City Council has been calling the shots for years and if they don't get the boot soon, the recovery of this city is going to take decades. Covid did not help but it was not the cause of the demise of Seattle.
If you are wealthy and want to bring about a change it is a beautiful place to live but make sure you have a home security system and stay away from certain areas, there are many these days.
Teresa | Seattle, WA