1) How can a city that hosts the headquarters of Amazon, Microsoft, Starbucks, Expedia and Weyerhaeuser (just to name few) die? 2) In my humble opinion, the Northwest is the most beautiful place on this plant next to Zurich, Switzerland! Here one can go hiking, mount claiming, skiing, river rafting, boating, salmon fishing and camping just by driving less than 75 miles outside of the city limits. Stop watching and believing the Fox idiots!
Yeh, well, no one denies that Seattle is a great city now, once you get 75 miles out of it. Except most people living in Seattle don't live 75 miles outside of it. Ironically though there is more camping going on in the city limits of Seattle now on the sidewalks and under the bridges than in the rest of Washington State combined.
Today, there are more building construction cranes in down town Seattle than almost anywhere in the country! Furthermore, Seattle is the ninth fastest-growing metro in the nation. There are more than 1000 people moving to the city every week. The homelessness (Thanks to the republicans for short funding mental health hospitals and human services and giving tax breaks to the oil companies and the one percent) is part of Seattle growing pains and I think the issue will be solved as soon as we put the criminal and his cronies behind bars
Jackson Hole is much much prettier and far less riff-raff. Seattle certainly has a 'culture' though, that's for sure. I guess the riff-raff helps with that.
I thought Weyerhaeuser was based in Federal Way? Coffee is bad for people (Starbucks) Amazon is a monopoly and Microsoft sucks. So tell me again why these companies are good? Seattle is a dying city. Watch the documentary on it. And now Seattle is one of the BLM capitals of the world even without a black killed by cop. Imagine what will happen in the city if that does happen.
Oh, we got it. Things are fine in New York, Chicago, Portland, and Seattle. Very Trumpian of you though, to point out how the building construction in the city is an indicator of how well everything is going. The reality is that the long term residents who helped to make the city what it is/was are very discontented and many are leaving or are staying but just don't like the City anymore which makes it a different atmosphere. It is true that there is a new breed of cat that moves in to camp on the sidewalks or to build corporate headquarters which can be used by you and your ilk to argue that all is well. That rap is used to defend San Francisco too. Except all is not well. The "progressives" have "improved" these cities to the point where everything is great except they are not liveable anymore. It's a question of how many people die in a Summer of Love in Seattle these days.
The Seattle homelessness is a direct product of Democratic control and that isn't changing for quite some time, so get out while the getting is good.
There is a reason the owner took the Seattle Sonics out of Seattle. He knew there was no one left to go watch the games. Please do not defend Seattle, just leave like the other 2 out of 3 people born there. Cut losses and run.
Just another ridiculous thread where the riff raff of ET dump on cities they cannot afford to live in and would have very poor prospects to get a decent job in. The US economy would be in serious trouble without the West coast dynamos in IT.