It's Worse Than You Think
I've been here for six years. They have easily been the worst six years of my life. I came from Boston and have travelled and lived in a few cities in my 46 years. Seattle doesn't even rate, as far as cities go. It doesn't even qualify as a mildly entertaining tourist destination. It is a cold vacuum filled with druggies, drunks, transients, and from about 8:00 AM until 7:00 PM, boring clock-punchers with no conversational skills or sense of style.
But that's not the worst of it. The real problem is that Seattle and its populace are afraid and/or unwilling to face the issues that have kept the area stuck in some early 20th century time warp.
Criticism of the Northwest is frowned upon, ignored and turned against the critic as though he or she might have some kind of problem. This is, after all, a wonderful paradise, how dare you suggest that something is wrong with it? The reality is that it's far from paradise; the alcohol and drug abuse is amongst the highest in the nation, to say nothing of the suicide rate. But let's just keep pretending it's paradise and squelch any suggestions otherwise.
The public transportation is a sad joke. The lack of snow removal ("Hey, it never snows here!") is almost criminal. The drivers are the most passive and constipated of any I've ever encountered as they consistently drive under the speed limit to avoid a ticket by the outrageous number of traffic cops "keeping the streets safe". Ha! Where is the outrage? There is none. There is nothing wrong here in paradise.