Review of Seattle, Washington


I loved it but I'm leaving
Star Rating - 3/1/2021
I moved to Seattle in 1990. It was just changing from a mid-sized town to a more cosmopolitan city.

Pros: Fast paced. Good for young professionals who want to have a high paying career. Close to Canada. Getting to Hawaii or California is easy. Natural beauty, with snow capped mountains overlooking wide blue water. It is green, with plant life everywhere. Orcas and Sea Lions. Great food. Great coffee. Rich artistic community. Liberal. Diverse. Accepting. Well-educated populace. Adequate (but overrated) healthcare. Many options to do what you like to do, many groups to join.

Cons: Traffic - if you want to take a hike just outside the city, you will be in traffic for about 3 hours total. Incredibly expensive housing and entertainment. No warm nights, you will always need a jacket. Even days rarely get hot. The waters are gorgeous, but too cold to swim in (exception is Lake Washington, which is tolerable but still chilly). People can be superficially friendly, but hard to get to know...partly because it's so hard to get around. Seeing friends is a time commitment if they aren't in your neighborhood. Lot's of homelessness, and they camp everywhere, indicating we are not doing a good job of caring for our most vulnerable. The UW has some very archaic hospital policies, and is in the middle ages as far as health care goes.
Suzanne | Seattle, WA
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The homelessness situation is because you are providing welfare instead of solutions to provide work a living to the homeless.
David | Weston, FL | Report Abuse

You forgot a few things. The city allows anarchists to hold hostage areas of the city, while telling police to stand down because the anarchists demand it. Seattle is being sued for the death of a protester because after he was shot within CHOP, CHAMP, or CHIMP...whatever they called themselves, he died potentially because officials were not allowed to enter the maze of animalistic miscreants. Educated people you say? Are they the ones who sand by and say nothing about streets riddled with refuse, drug addicts, drunkards, mentally ill and homeless people? Because of the Seattle's "liberal" ideologies, the place has become a haven for the worst criminals who have become empowered to escalate their crime due to the Mayor's policy of bashing the law officers, promoting "defund the police" and "abolish the police"...mottos which are insanely dangerous for law-abiding people of that city. Seattle told the SPD to evacuate their precinct as low-IQ animals stormed it and committing arson, while other animals looted from store owners who were trying to make a living. Seattle and their liberal anti-police movement has make enforcing the law nearly impossible there, and as well has resulted in placing targets of good officers trying to make your community safe. Many have died because of this trough violent attacks. Let me know when the well educated liberals in Seattle can make it less a crime infested cesspool, remove the homeless and their refuse, and maybe a few thousand dirty needles and syringes from liberal addicts...then maybe I'll find your assessment a little more plausible and accurate. So you love Seattle? Would you love it alone and unarmed on Jackson street at, say, midnight? When assessing something, it's easy to conveniently disregard the bad, which in Seattle's case, is the most pressing.
Paul | Sequim, WA | Report Abuse

Boy, you sure can't be FAIR in your reviews of this city, can you? You talk about snow capped mountains yet fail to mention that the downtown core has been RUINED, that all the department stores and many other business are gone and/or boarded up thanks to the liberal crap the City Council and Mayor allow to happen! You don't mention the police are handcuffed; that people crap on the streets and do drugs on every corner, pitch their tents in city parks where families used to enjoy an afternoon. You don't mention you don't DARE go there after sundown. Boy, you could at LEAST have been a little bit honest! Shame on you. I hope people considering this city will read the REAL reviews. I grew up there, so I know from whence I speak. My state is being RUINED. Bunch of horsesh*t to put it MILDLY.
Margo | Belton, TX | Report Abuse

This was helpful and touched on a number of areas of interest for me. Can I ask where you are heading?
Michelle | Philadelphia, PA | Report Abuse
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