The Tragedy of Seattle
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I moved to California in revenge
It's now MAGA country -
I can tell you guysm from my own internal polling, the majority of current or would be Seattle home buyers aren’t all that phased by CHOP or Defund The Police. They seem to think it’s progress. There would have to be a massive uptick of violent crime in Madison Park, QA, Ravenna, etc before folks think there is a big problem.
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Detroit West.
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The lessons of the 60's and 70's failed policies are here to make a comeback. Urban decay will be the new gentrification.
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The white flight from Seattle already happened decades ago.UW_Doog_Bot said:Detroit West.
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YellowSnow said:
The white flight from Seattle already happened decades ago.UW_Doog_Bot said:Detroit West.
Demographics aside, it's about capital, business, and nice middle class people like you. There's plenty of shitty majority white Midwest cities. -
I graduated 2007, and I remember articles how it was the first time a starting salary out of UW wasn’t really enough to cover cost of living in Seattle. I probably remember that because I took my electrical engineering degree and basically same starting salary to Texas.
It’s nice to visit Seattle but every time I hear friends or family piss and moan about Seattle I remind them they don’t have to live there. -
Point being the Detroit analogy doesn’t really fit Seattle. Anyone who kept their Seattle real estate post bussing vs moving to Bellevue still ended up in a good spot.UW_Doog_Bot said:YellowSnow said:
The white flight from Seattle already happened decades ago.UW_Doog_Bot said:Detroit West.
Demographics aside, it's about capital, business, and nice middle class people like you. There's plenty of shitty majority white Midwest cities.
Thus far, most middle class people in Seattle are not yet very troubled by what’s going on up here. I’m clearly in the minority. -
Another myth of Seattle is how international and metropolitan it is. Yes you like “real” sushi even though your favorite place is Korean owned, and you know the difference between north and South Indian food. However, you’ve fucking never traveled and you see the world through the lense of your bullshit groupthink neighborhood espresso house friends sharing TED talks and npr articles.
I have way more international friends in Dallas fucking Texas than my friends back in Seattle. It’s geographically a great hub
for international business between South America and Europe. Most my friends are in Europe or Asia 2/3 times a year for work, and we can discuss much of the world first hand.
This cultural arrogance Seattle has is so infinitely unwarranted or earned, there’s a reason the only time you come up in the news is to be laughed at. -
How white UW was was a real shock to me coming from Southern California and it was always crazy to me that my friends at UW from Washington talked about how diverse it was.LoneStarDawg said:Another myth of Seattle is how international and metropolitan it is. Yes you like “real” sushi even though your favorite place is Korean owned, and you know the difference between north and South Indian food. However, you’ve fucking never traveled and you see the world through the lense of your bullshit groupthink neighborhood espresso house friends sharing TED talks and npr articles.
I have way more international friends in Dallas fucking Texas than my friends back in Seattle. It’s geographically a great hub
for international business between South America and Europe. Most my friends are in Europe or Asia 2/3 times a year for work, and we can discuss much of the world first hand.
This cultural arrogance Seattle has is so infinitely unwarranted or earned, there’s a reason the only time you come up in the news is to be laughed at.
