I've never really liked Seattle and I've been here for years. Like a lot of places it's had its moments of of worthiness, just not very many of them. And the climate is dismal.
But the core of downtown Seattle is now a complete third world shithole. The state lockdowns and city tolerance of criminality have removed the economic base and emptied nearly every retail business leaving the downtown core a wasteland of deserted destitution, urban filth, and vagrant zombies.
There ain't no kind of V shaped recovery gonna happen there, no fucking way.
When I moved there back in the day I was surprised at how dirty and full of graffiti even the "nice" parts of the city were. 3rd Ave was always a shithole: all the busses run through there, so it's always full of unsavory people. Back when I lived in the city I always used to hate waiting for a bus there late at night. I can't imagine what it's like now after the lockdowns and race riots.
Seattle is the only city I've ever been shouted at and called a nigger (I'm white) by a homeless(?) drunk. Just trying to wait for a bus to get back to my airbnb after TI8.
Been to a lot of cities, but Seattle was far and away the worst for vagrants, surprisingly beating out NYC
The only time I've been to NYC was at the height of the Giuliani revival of the city right before 9/11, and I STILL got yelled at by homeless people in Times Square. I don't even want to imagine how bad it is now.
I've never really liked Seattle and I've been here for years. Like a lot of places it's had its moments of of worthiness, just not very many of them. And the climate is dismal.
But the core of downtown Seattle is now a complete third world shithole. The state lockdowns and city tolerance of criminality have removed the economic base and emptied nearly every retail business leaving the downtown core a wasteland of deserted destitution, urban filth, and vagrant zombies.
There ain't no kind of V shaped recovery gonna happen there, no fucking way.
When I moved there back in the day I was surprised at how dirty and full of graffiti even the "nice" parts of the city were. 3rd Ave was always a shithole: all the busses run through there, so it's always full of unsavory people. Back when I lived in the city I always used to hate waiting for a bus there late at night. I can't imagine what it's like now after the lockdowns and race riots.
Seattle is the only city I've ever been shouted at and called a nigger (I'm white) by a homeless(?) drunk. Just trying to wait for a bus to get back to my airbnb after TI8.
Been to a lot of cities, but Seattle was far and away the worst for vagrants, surprisingly beating out NYC
The only time I've been to NYC was at the height of the Giuliani revival of the city right before 9/11, and I STILL got yelled at by homeless people in Times Square. I don't even want to imagine how bad it is now.