Memoir of a 20 something Las Vegas Transplant to Seattle

[Swigchow]

Originally Posted by ladyluckinseattle

Gripes- I have never seen so many homeless people in my life. I cannot for the life of me understand why there are so many here. If anyone can shed some light on this, I'd love to know. But it's very disheartening to see so many homeless all over the city, not just downtown.

I think there are more homeless in Las Vegas. It is just that they are out of sight in the tunnels during the day.


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[apocalypse0915]

Haha...

@eskercurve, I guess I kinda feel like that quirky brother because those characteristics kinda describe me...which is why I feel I don't belong out here, but rather somewhere out there

[Casportsfan]

I would advise you to keep advancing that education, because where I am from Seattle is actually considered a cheap alternative to the Bay Area. The job market will only get tougher in the future with the advances of technology. I'd agree with you on Belltown and the nightlife overall there. I really liked it the last time I was up, but maybe that is because I am 34 now and I don't need as much of a "scene". What Seattle had was enough for me. But if I was still in my 20's? LOL, no way I would conisder that nightlife. There's like a couple streets and that's it.

[toughguy]

Originally Posted by Casportsfan

I would advise you to keep advancing that education, because where I am from Seattle is actually considered a cheap alternative to the Bay Area. The job market will only get tougher in the future with the advances of technology. I'd agree with you on Belltown and the nightlife overall there. I really liked it the last time I was up, but maybe that is because I am 34 now and I don't need as much of a "scene". What Seattle had was enough for me. But if I was still in my 20's? LOL, no way I would conisder that nightlife. There's like a couple streets and that's it.

If you think there are only a "couple" streets in Seattle where nightlife is present, you are sadly mistaken.

[W & C]

I suspect he meant a couple of streets in Belltown, not Seattle as a whole

[agentdm007]

Love the post! I think the dreary weather would depress me too. I grew up in Salt Lake City and the pea soup inversions that would fill the valley skies during winter were enough to drive me crazy. I also didn't realize how bitterly cold winter can be until after I moved away from Utah. After living in Las Vegas for the past 5 years, I've grown to embrace the desert with all of it's beauty. Red rock canyon, valley of fire, lake mead, mt charleston, and the closeness to southern california are all things I love about being here. Not to mention the cost of living is cheap and no state income tax.

[Xanathos]

The rain season is the pill.
The summer is the candy coating.

To live in this area, you have to be willing to say you can put up with that period of dreary gray in order to obtain the payoff of 4 months of the most amazingly wonderful, absolutely perfect weather in the country. Is it a fair trade? On its own, not exactly. But when taken with all the other things this area offers, absolutely. This is one of the few cities in the country that truly feels alive. You can almost feel it pulsing. It's got a real personality. Cities like Vegas (which I've also lived in) are contrived and shallow and dead. They're fun to live in for a few months, even a year maybe. But eventually those bright and shiny lights stop dazzling you. Cities like Chicago feel angry. Everybody out there has an angle, everybody out there has to be on their guard. People out there are just too caught up in being their own little individual centers of the universe. And, of course, the further east you get, ,the more hostile and cutthroat it becomes.

The west coast is definitely where it's at for me. San Fran is a better city, but it's too expensive and the state is out of control. San Diego's great but you can't make a living there unless you want to work for the military or some other branch of government. LA's a joke. Portland's full of vigilante hippies who are out to save the world and don't care how much of YOUR money they have to spend in order to do it, or how many of your rights they have to infringe upon in order to exert their own.

That leaves Seattle. And maybe Anaheim. Seattle wins.

[fromv2s]

lol, it is so nice to know that there are actually people from Vegas in Seattle. I moved to Seattle from Vegas 3 months ago. It is so funny when people checked my ID and told me they had never met anyone from Vegas before!