It's Getting to Me--GREY! After 4 generations, we
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6/22/2006
Cost of living high, but, so what. People were distant, but, now they're simply rude and insincere. It's a city totally stuck on itself but unable to substantiate any true claims to fame other than it's previous "Best Places" recognitions. I'm almost 50 and a fourth generation Seattlite (family came from Scandinavia and Britain in late 19th Century). There are many good things about Seattle, but, #1 thing going against it now is: GREY! Used to be I could take it, and I've lived in Honolulu, Anchorage, NYC, San Francisco but most of my life in Seattle. It's soooooooo greeeeeeey! Family always said, "We left a cold, dark depressing place for another cold, dark depressing place." It's not rain that bothers me, it's the lack of definition. No shadows, no definable clouds (they're up there somewhere), no rain, no sun, just that eerie, bleak, "blues-inducing" grey. Sorry all you new comers, but it's not the rain that'll get you, it's the monotony of monochromoatic blah.
Einar | Mill Creek, WA