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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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It's always been like this. Im about over it.
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.
Except there’s just twice as much of that shit and half as many police dealing with it. I stopped heading up to grab lunch at Saigon Deli. It’s just too much of a shit show. Someone’s car is always getting broken into and there’s always a bunch of homeless lunatics falling around on the sidewalks and in the streets. Aqua Verde will do just fine for when I’m down at UWMC.
He kept yelling at his knocked out friend….”WHY DID YOU MAKE ME DO THAT?”