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The problem with Seattle is that housing/rents are skyrocketing, to the point where a small 3 bed home runs up to 3/4 of a million, or the average rent is almost 1800 per month.
Sure you could live 1/2 to hour away for affordable housing, but then you'd have to put up with horrible traffic on I-5.
There is more. Seattle geography. Seattle has a similar problem to San Francisco. Water and mountains in several directions. That leaves a small amount of land to build on. Not enough room considering there are 2,188,649 people in King County (and counting). Alot of people want to move to Seattle, but there's not enough room. Demand exceeds supply.
I live in Olympia, WA and that video is also incredibly accurate to the problems we're facing in our town of 45K people.
Long story short:
Let's call the homeless problem, a homeless problem.
Let's call the tweeker/junkie problem, a tweeker/junkie problem.
Seattle, Tacoma, and Olympia have a tweeker/junkie problem. Those tweeker/junkies also like to camp wherever they want since the rules don't apply to them.
The homicide rate of Seattle is a low 3.74 murders per 100K people. About the same as Colorado. And lower than Montana.
The murder rate has been low here for as long as I can remember. But it has been inching up. 2018 was a 10-year-high. But the police still do aggressively investigate murders. The real problem is property crime, which is essentially no longer investigated or prosecuted. Seattle has one of the highest rates of property crime in the nation: https://www.seattletimes.com/seattle...motor-vehicle/
The murder rate has been low here for as long as I can remember. But it has been inching up. 2018 was a 10-year-high. But the police still do aggressively investigate murders. The real problem is property crime, which is essentially no longer investigated or prosecuted. Seattle has one of the highest rates of property crime in the nation: https://www.seattletimes.com/seattle...motor-vehicle/
BentBow's comment was, "The Democrat Killing Fields," so I demonstrated that there isn't a whole lot of killing in that democratic field.
"Worth watching. Free-attle: Another beautiful American city the Left has destroyed."
America is starting to look like a third world country. So sad.
I lived there for 13 years. Got just a few seconds in and my jaw is dropping. WTH happened in Seattle that there are tent cities along the I-5 like that? I know exactly where that is, those were never there when I lived there.
And even more: At around 1:50ish it shows another tent city. Seattle has always had homeless, usually around Pioneer Square and around 1st, 2nd, and 3rd Avenues downtown, (a lot was near Pike and Pine on each of these streets although you could always see others along those numbered avenues), but that tent city was never there when I was there.
And even more: In Ballard?!!?!?!
Seattle has always been a very expensive city to live in. In the 90s, it was one of the most expensive cities in all of the U.S. putting out even top cities that others think of before they would ever think of Seattle. In the 90s, CA threw up and splattered some of its residents in to Seattle and the surrounding area, and there was a 1% vacancy rate for awhile. Rent prices went out of control during that time. Still, it didn't look like this.
Some time ago, I went and looked at the website for the very first apartment building I lived in when I moved there. It used to be a very community oriented place, where people got along really well, we had a laundry room where people would put stuff they no longer wanted (but in good condition) for any other resident to take if they wanted. People were considerate, people were nice, people were friendly - and there really was a community feeling in the entire area of First Hill. The prices were also affordable.
Now? The prices are unreal. I even looked at the photo gallery, found the exact apartment that I lived in - those were their example photos of their apartments - the very one I lived in - and I know that by what is outside the windows. That studio apartment did get a kitchen makeover - the kitchen does look a whole lot better than it did, and it looks like the stripped the flooring and redid it, or just entirely redid the flooring, but with the same type of material. Everything else in there is exactly the same. And the price on that thing is insane, even when factoring in the rise of cost of living and even factoring in that of course tenants always pay for improvements via rent - it's still way over priced.
And that's not abnormal. The food is more expensive than almost any other place I've lived, including major metropolitan areas that are much bigger than Seattle. The rent has always been insane, even when I lived there, but it was doable even with a job when you're just starting out in life, getting ready to go to college - but that quickly changed.
Yep, there's always been homeless. When Clinton went to Seattle, they rounded up all the homeless and took them somewhere - I don't know where, but everyone who lived in Seattle knew that they did that. But the homeless were never this much. The homeless were never in tent cities spanning the length of a sidewalk, or living out of grocery carts in Ballard, of all places, nor living in trash and tents along the I-5.
What happened since 2003? It is not the city I lived in for 13 years. What did these idiots do to that city?
There is more. Seattle geography. Seattle has a similar problem to San Francisco. Water and mountains in several directions. That leaves a small amount of land to build on. Not enough room considering there are 2,188,649 people in King County (and counting). Alot of people want to move to Seattle, but there's not enough room. Demand exceeds supply.
I lived there for 13 years. Got just a few seconds in and my jaw is dropping. WTH happened in Seattle that there are tent cities along the I-5 like that? I know exactly where that is, those were never there when I lived there.
And even more: At around 1:50ish it shows another tent city. Seattle has always had homeless, usually around Pioneer Square and around 1st, 2nd, and 3rd Avenues downtown, (a lot was near Pike and Pine on each of these streets although you could always see others along those numbered avenues), but that tent city was never there when I was there.
And even more: In Ballard?!!?!?!
Seattle has always been a very expensive city to live in. In the 90s, it was one of the most expensive cities in all of the U.S. putting out even top cities that others think of before they would ever think of Seattle. In the 90s, CA threw up and splattered some of its residents in to Seattle and the surrounding area, and there was a 1% vacancy rate for awhile. Rent prices went out of control during that time. Still, it didn't look like this.
Some time ago, I went and looked at the website for the very first apartment building I lived in when I moved there. It used to be a very community oriented place, where people got along really well, we had a laundry room where people would put stuff they no longer wanted (but in good condition) for any other resident to take if they wanted. People were considerate, people were nice, people were friendly - and there really was a community feeling in the entire area of First Hill. The prices were also affordable.
Now? The prices are unreal. I even looked at the photo gallery, found the exact apartment that I lived in - those were their example photos of their apartments - the very one I lived in - and I know that by what is outside the windows. That studio apartment did get a kitchen makeover - the kitchen does look a whole lot better than it did, and it looks like the stripped the flooring and redid it, or just entirely redid the flooring, but with the same type of material. Everything else in there is exactly the same. And the price on that thing is insane, even when factoring in the rise of cost of living and even factoring in that of course tenants always pay for improvements via rent - it's still way over priced.
And that's not abnormal. The food is more expensive than almost any other place I've lived, including major metropolitan areas that are much bigger than Seattle. The rent has always been insane, even when I lived there, but it was doable even with a job when you're just starting out in life, getting ready to go to college - but that quickly changed.
Yep, there's always been homeless. When Clinton went to Seattle, they rounded up all the homeless and took them somewhere - I don't know where, but everyone who lived in Seattle knew that they did that. But the homeless were never this much. The homeless were never in tent cities spanning the length of a sidewalk, or living out of grocery carts in Ballard, of all places, nor living in trash and tents along the I-5.
What happened since 2003? It is not the city I lived in for 13 years. What did these idiots do to that city?
Liberalism happened. Removing power from police happened.
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