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The Ave
sinceredawg
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Went there last month - I like to visit when I'm in town but it had been a while. WTFH happened? It's grafitti, busted windows, crazy homeless fucks camped on the sidewalk screaming with all their shit spread out... it's embarrassing honestly. If I came on a campus visit I wouldn't choose that for my college setting. UW has never had a strong campus community, but it's gotten repugnant. What the fuck is the University doing? We are so bad at optics.
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Are you new to Seattle?
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I must be. The city I fell in love with only had the same grim chicks.PostGameOrangeSlices said:Are you new to Seattle?
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I just got my car window smashed at the fucking Interbay driving range.sinceredawg said:
I must be. The city I fell in love with only had the same grim chicks.PostGameOrangeSlices said:Are you new to Seattle?
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You should leave. I highly recommend it.PostGameOrangeSlices said:
I just got my car window smashed at the fucking Interbay driving range.sinceredawg said:
I must be. The city I fell in love with only had the same grim chicks.PostGameOrangeSlices said:Are you new to Seattle?
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Is there still a 7-11 on the Ave??
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The Ave is a total shithole. It’s a joke. It used to by just fine now it’s filth. Way to go Seattle
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It’s Seattle on the whole
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The Ave has always been a shithole. Sounds the same as 20 years ago when I lived at The Malloy.
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I only remember pretty busy places and no empty storefronts with broken windows. Other than that it pretty much sounds like the Ave of the early 90s.
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I was in the U-District 2013-2018. It varied on and off with how dirty and how overrun with the homeless/Ave Rats it got, but it wasn't noticeably worse than any other busy neighborhood in Seattle. Generally though, more empty storefronts = more dirty because of more spots for the homeless to spot up and loiter/camp.
Amazon killing the small retail store market already took out so many businesses on the Ave in the last decade that it created a situation of more storefront supply than demand could fill. There's a limit to how many restaurants can actually be successful and turn a profit on the Ave, so there's insanely high turnover in that genre. I'd say over 50% of the places that were open my freshman year don't exist anymore. Some storefronts changed to different restaurants 3-4 times over the course of my time as a student. It's a brutally competitive scene.
I went back to the Ave a few months ago, and it was pretty evident that COVID plus a whole year of no students on campus completely fucked over the businesses on there. So naturally, with so many dead and empty storefronts, it creates an environment where it's dirtier and more overrun by the riff raff now than ever before.
