YouTube Video: "The Seattle Freeze"
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=roC_nsdyi1I
Actually the comments were more poignant than the video itself.
A few things I noticed about the video:
1) "Seattle is a microcosm of a larger social trend"
WTF? Seattle isn't a microcosm of shit. Seattle is it's own little fucked up bizarro world. This woman clearly needs to get out of the Northwest more often.
2) "Seattle people are polite"
I haven't found the people here polite at all. For example if I say hello to one of my neighbors in my apartment building, more than half the time they don't even respond, they just stare in my general direction with this completely vacuous look in their eyes.
3) "Belltown used to be a socially thriving artist's community"
Translation: "It's all the transplants fault!"
Again, this woman really needs to get out of the Northwest and experience the rest of the world. Guess what, lady? Technology and the internet have exploded everywhere in the past 15 years, not just Seattle! People use computers in other places too! And in the rest of the world people still manage to act like human beings!