I Hate Seattle

Over the course of my life I have lived in five states and at least eight cities. I’ve experienced life in everything from large, “world class” cities, to tiny, rural towns, and, in a strange way, I’ve not experienced anywhere as provincial as the greater Seattle area. I don’t mean “provincial” in the rural/anti-urban sense, but in the sense of being small-minded and having not experienced life outside of a particular area. In fact, sometimes it borders on outright xenophobia.

For example, the hating on Californians. Really? Honestly, throughout the past three decades, more people from Washington moved TO California than visa versa, and there was no hatred there. Not to mention the fact that it was actually MicroSoft and an improvement in Boeings business that helped the economy and allowed people to move here. Also, the “you’re not from here, so you won’t understand” attitude. Honestly, I’ve lived in large cities (Boston, Cleveland, Los Angeles) and even very tiny towns where I never had to face this all the time. It’s like a defense mechanism, but it fails in that it only pisses people off more.

Even when Seattlites (and people from the PNW) travel, I have noticed intolerance for other people’s customs. Several friends (from Washington) who visited me when I lived in the East Coast complained constantly about the pedestrian traffic, the noise, etc. They refused to ride public transportation and thought that “only poor people lived in apartments.” (Try explaining that one in Manhattan.) In short, everything that was not familiar (or different from Washington) was wrong. Lobster rolls, walking to work, the hot dog buns at Fenway, the subway, the architecture (with it’s lack of detached, single-family homes), all of it was labeled “wrong.”

The same is true for the constantly poking fun at the Midwest and making rather unpleasant assumptions about the South, the Southwest, and even California. It’s almost as if Western Washington is their entire world and they think everything else is crap.

Has anyone else encountered this? It makes it hard to fit in sometimes and can be really annoying.

"M.J., Seattle, WA
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For a couple of years I have been trying to identify the subtleties of Seattle milieu. While I'm not intending to relay all of my observations here, I would like to highlight a particular brand of solipsism (that is a bit déclassé if you're trying to be world-class, Seattle). Quite plainly, if you are going to own a dog you are responsible for its shit (literally).

IM EXCERPT

11:21 This girl takes her pit bull right infront of me and watches it urinate on the table in the public space on the roof...
…and starts calling it like "here honey, here baby"
So I start screaming at her . . . "YOUR DOG IS PISSING ON THE BAMBOO TABLE! THERE ARE NO DOGS UP HERE!'
She gets indignant about it, looks at me like I'm the piece of shit (curled up nose & narcy snear) and marches up to me and shrills "What do you mean of course there are dogs here all the time . . . "
So I point to the sign that says no pets (condescendingly)
"I don't know what kind of trailer park you crawled from, but this is not your personal urinal and shitting ground because you're too lazy to adequately care for a pit bull. Get the fuck over your passive aggressive ass coming up here letting your dog take a shit every few hours, piss all over the furniture and lie to my face like the mutt never happened . . ."
To Preface: Earlier in the day she came up (to the roof) and said "go potty honey…go potty"
and then does it AGAIN in the evening
this time right in front of me and tries to lie and that it wasn't doing anything wrong, and I'm the one with the problem because I'm "being rude" by reasonably calling her on her literal shit.
11:23: Are you kidding me?!
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Several blue-collar bourgeois try to "brand" Seattle as a progressive utopia, where in reality the practice is more of a dystopian nightmare. It's the progressive verison of hypocrisy for assholes. The experience is no less tangible than purchasing a massproduced 'version' of something else (don't forget Seattle's WAMU did want to be the Walmart of the banking industry) . . .

. . . but back to point . . . there's a certain kind of selfishness, disrespect, and lack of courtesy I experience from people pretending to be "somebody" (overcompensating narcissist) or "classy" (provincial) in Seattle. This should not be confused with other idiosyncrasies that complete the Seattle Freeze (social disease). It's as if the person believes they are somehow special and don't need to bother doing ____________ at all. Further, if you call them on this or point out the fallacy in their logic, you no longer carry any weight in their limited attention span and are completely ignored (as they run away posting a tweet on what a fuckwad you are). You simply do not matter, because the individual is so stunted they are incapable of anything other than their own idiotic bubble.

Regardless of your political persuasions (or socioeconomic class), it is simply TRASHY to use a public place as a litter box for your fucking dog---especially if you're living in a building that has condos on the market for $800k (get over yourself).

Yes, princess, I know that owning a big dog comes with its gross responsibilities; I know that having to use a bag to scoop up an enormous turd is icky. Perhaps you could get one of the many gentlemen you have over to fuck you be a gentleman (instead of talk on his phone ignoring the environment around him) and do it for you? Quit being a lazy bitch.

Brilliant idea!!!!

Another thing the fucking idiots in Seattle love doing.

Most people here talk about how great the scenery is.

What good is the scenery, WHEN YOU CAN'T SEE IT?

It's cloudy/rainy 90 percent of the time.

People here are such fucking idiots. ROFL

That's the entire seattle metropolitan area in a nutshell.

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Yesterday the owner of our building sent out a letter indicating that any improvements required under the Seattle Department of Development's ruling enacted by City Council bill number 116731, which requires bulding owners to measure, disclose and seek a 20% reduction in energy use, will be paid for my the tenants.
This is government mandating owners to spend money on paper work to support the city's agenda. And penalize them if they don't follow the mandate.
Public comment is quietly taking place, protest now.
This is another example of your tax money being wasted for self seeking politicians.
City Light has a budget of $20 M a year for energy efficiency, and has been the case since 1977. We do not need another waste of tax payer money that does nothing but place burdons on struggling property owners.
In the end tenants pay the freight!
Say NO to this waste! Complain to DPD, call 684-7846 and tell them you are against this waste.

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