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Wish I'd read the Shmeng B4 moving out there!
Posted by: xavier |
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Whatever appealing &/or positive info you've heard about Seattle, forget it!
The reasons why I moved to Seattle are as unclear to me now as an
alzhiemer's patient trying to focus or remember anything.
However, here are some random fading memories, make of them what you will:
Talking about the weather has been well noted. Bring your anti-depressants,
you're gonna need 'em.
The city is not a city at all, but rather a large village filled with over-weight
people dressed in their best Salvation Army attire. A sharp contrast to the newly arrived Yuppies, elegant & well-heeled, driving pass the riff-raff in their
mercedes & hummers. Was 18th Century France like this?
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The social scene fails. Clubs, they're all jokes. Theater, a bygone memory.
The museums are second rate. The restaurants, like the people, are pretentious to the nth degree. Bars are few & far in between. Oh yeah, the town pulls in the sidewalks early, I guess the fat pig of a mayor likes his beauty sleep. Nice hair-do, yer honor!
Speaking of the mayor, he's a fat freak. A real control freak making power grabs every damn week! Close the strip clubs, build some muti-billion dollar sub-terrainian tunnel right next to the Sound, ask permission before wiping your ass......
The peter principle thrives in this town, especially the politicians that can't govern. It seems every few weeks there is a referendum ballot in your mail box asking the taxpayers to decide to vote with proposals from twiddle-dee or
twiddle-dumb. For example, the city was suppose to have a brand new sparkling light weight rail system by 2006, but through ineptitude & general incompetency manifested in the political equivalent of beating dead horses, nothing gets done....nothing ever gets done in the hellhole. The city reeks of knee jerk liberals banging heads with the cowpoke neo-cons in the state Gov't.
Nothing ever gets done.....
The beggers! "Give me your filth, your toothless idiots, hooked on Meth &
shitting on the streets like dogs!" I liked the junkies, complete with tiny red gasoline cans, bullshitting with these bon mots, " 'cuse me, listen my car just ran outta gas, and if you could give me a few dollars for gas then I could make it home for my grandmother's 92nd birthday party in Renton..." However, the best are the total wastes of humanity that camp out on every street corner with
their crayon written signs, "Hungry Vet, please give, God bless you", "Homeless
mother of 5, thrown out of Apt., plese help! God bless you", " Cancer patient, no
medical insurance, please help, God bless you" .....and many. many more.
I hadn't been in town for more than a few days when I asked for directions on the street. A very cordial, plump woman assisted me, and then said, "
you're new in Seattle? Here's a piece of advice, the people here are often polite
, but nobody is really friendly." She was right.
I arrived in the summertime, and could not believe the sheer numbers of the
drug-addicted, mentally unstable & the homeless. Who knew that the wretched consider Seattle their summer vacation spot. Some disappeared at the summer's end, but the number remaining was legion.
The culture was a foreign to me as if I were living in Pakistan, and I do a diservice to Pakistan by saying this! Does this pig sty of a pseudo-city have a clue about how its absurdities? Everybody believes the place is so hip & trendy,
yet it is the most controlling city in the USA. Watch the puppets come to a stop on every street corner's red light, regardless if there is traffic or not. No smoking 50 feet from any Gov't building, bus stop, or particpating private business, and the laws RE: the right of way for pedestrians requires a Phd. to understand.
The place is dirty. Seriously, it makes NYC look tidy.
Look, I could go on, but anybody out there who's reading this, do us both a favor, don't go to Seattle. You'll regret it, boy, will you regret it.
P.S. Sorry about my poor spelling, but If I could spell properly, maybe I'd be working for Seattle's gay pulp trash alternative paper, The Stranger!
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Re: Wish I'd read the Shmeng B4 moving out there!
by evil_jackass on Aug 06, 2007 - 05:31 PM
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Good post. I was also surprised (given its reputation) how seedy Seattle and its suburbs are. You can't even escape the seediness by living in an over-priced suburb (although you can have 1-2 blocks of new houses -- you still always have scumvilles less than a mile away)..
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Re: Wish I'd read the Shmeng B4 moving out there!
by evil_jackass on Sep 06, 2007 - 06:11 PM
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As a side note: I also wish I'd found/read Seattle Shmeng before I made the choice to move up here. Although, at the time, I was so set on moving here that I'm not sure I'd have believed everything I read.
Needless to say, I've learned my lesson about this place and will be leaving it as quickly as I can. I think I noticed that things were broken here from day 1, but rationalized that it was just a few bad experiences. Once, having settled, I realized that this area is just dysfunctional in general, I'll never believe what the locals or chamber of commerce have to say about a city again.
It's dumb how people insist on "advertising" and promoting the city to people who've already lived here and decided for themselves that it ain't all it's cracked up to be. Sort of like getting spam emails that you know are bullshit, would never respond to, but somehow still pile up in your email.
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