How come Seattle isn't a world class city? (appraisal, education)

[Citislicker]

Also UW is among top 10 in research of accounting, my friend told me - he's an accounting professor in UMN.

Originally Posted by iskray917

And outside Berkeley, UCLA, Virginia, Michigan, the best public university in the country.

[Jennibc]

Best Colleges - Education - US News and World Report
If you give credibility to these list, UW ranks pretty high. It tied for 11, while UConn was 26. Having lived on both the west and the east coasts, there is a big difference between the public schools on the two coasts. Typically the east coast elite attend private or Ivy League schools while the west coast elite are willing to attend public universities. I'm not sure of the reason behind it. By elite, I mean the top students academically, not the wealthiest.

[jr75]

Originally Posted by JiminCT

"Most of the locals are Californians."
NO...not native. The native provincial Seattle locals hate them for what they have done for their ****** heaven villa. Beneath that skyline is a native population that is seething...

"Your statements are completely ridiculous."

Do tell...in 30 miles we have Yale, Wesleyan, UCONN, and Trinity...yet we dont need to tell the world how literate we are. Besides, most of the "literate" folks Seattle seems to brag about probably are from somewhere else. Your big university is University of Washington. Around here....thats about on par with UCONN. Dat taint world class sonny. Most of your other schools are borderline community colleges...

"A white trust funders paradise?--you are in CT are you not?"
Yes and they move to very white wealthy places like Seattle, Portland, and Vermont. Why bother with our high taxes...at least we know out limitations out here.

"I think you're looking out your own window."
West Hartford pales in comparison to what you are thinking.

"No one is saying Seattle is comparable to NYC - we are the 25th largest city in the U.S."
And the term world class isnt reserved for copycat cities. Name five regional food dishes invented in Seattle. Even grunge music is a offshoot of Neil Young....everybody knows that. BTW...fish balls and salmon cakes dont count.

Wow, you seem to have it all sewn up tight. You don't need to tell the world how literate you are YET in your reply you're doing exactly that by name checking all your nearby colleges. Where in your mind did you get the idea we are trying to tell everybody how literate we are. The talk about the UW was about how highly ranked the medical school is and how it's ranked against UBC. Where did I say in my previous posts Seattle is world class? Go reread the last couple of pages before you go spouting off. BTW rock and roll is an offshoot of blues--so who cares? I don't see your point. Certain elements came together in Seattle and surrounding area that gave rise to grunge. There's a new book about it with text by Thurston Moore you might want to READ.

[Ira500]

Name five regional food dishes invented in Seattle

1. Seattle hot dogs. They may be disgusting, but they're ours. The bun is scmeared with cream cheese before the hot dog fills the bun.

2. Aplets and Cotlets.

3. Geoduck chowder.

4. Dutch Baby pancakes...

4 out of 5 ain't bad.

[JesseJB]

Regional food dishes? I'll call and ask Tom Douglas while I'm ordering my Vivace espress that was roasted today 20 feet away from where I'm standing. And while you wait, enjoy your farmed Atlantic Salmon. mmm!!!!

[JiminCT]

Altantic Salmon...you must mean the wild Nova and Gaspe that any legit Jewish deli has? Oh wait....Seattle wouldnt really know anything about that....either points.

Tom Douglas...a nice Delaware kind...but you mistaken high priced national celebrity chef with good.
Especially that lame attempt at a pizza (oh...but it must be good because the oven has been lovingly fed with applewood...LOL!). Leave the nest and come to New Haven....you dont even need to go to NYC.

"I'm ordering my Vivace espress"
So a faux Italian coffee bar is somehow a Seattle creation....since when was coffee invented in Seattle??

"Dutch Baby pancakes..."

A German pancake that my German mother has been making since I was a toddler is somehow a Seattle creation? Bzzzzzzt. Try again.

Seattle's original gifts to the culinary world: Apple candy and chowder....

"I'll call and ask Tom Douglas"...
And will he answer?
Lola...sounds cute, but we'll go to Cavos...real Greek run by real live Greeks. "Serious" Pie? Even our Luna in Hartford (run by a rastaman from Bensonhurst) does dances around that place.

"Where in your mind did you get the idea we are trying to tell everybody how literate we are."

Local News | Minneapolis ousts Seattle as most literate city | Seattle Times Newspaper

Seattle? Mostly contrived....

[JiminCT]

"If you give credibility to these list, UW ranks pretty high."
Best Colleges - Education - US News and World Report

No one asks the real question if US News and World Report is a credible magazine....

[Ira500]

No one asks the real question if US News and World Report is a credible magazine....


....and nobody asks if JiminCT is a credible human? And why he has this hardon to put down Seattle?

I'll grant you that new Haven makes great pizza. Pepes is one of the best in the US.

[JiminCT]

"There's a new book about it with text by Thurston Moore you might want to READ."

Just MHO...but grunge was pretty depressing music....quite messy stuff actually. Bleak...

Moore? I don't read...really.;p

[JiminCT]

Ira...I actually dig Seattle. Quite a bit. Its a great setting...but after my trip last month (last visiting in 96)...its quite obvious the place is rapidly losing its soul....much like what is happening here in the east in NYC Boston and DC. Gentrification has a good element...but its not healthy when the costs to live in a city start sucking the creative lifeblood. Its quite evident in Seattle that is happening...
Lots of these places are bringing in the faux-cultured joints to cater to the upper middle class that have come in. Tom Douglas is Exhibit A....

The REAL cities that are going to have a vibe are smaller places like Asheville, Kingston (Ontario), Amherst-Northampton, Portland (Maine)...
I'm all for robust business...but its obvious that there is a culture/economic war that is killing our once-great cities.

Seattle is well on its way to sterilizing itself like Manhattan is doing....
I spent 10 months working out there...it was a great opportunity to see the NW. I'm just pointing out that Seattle is highly overrated for the price to live there...Boston is a very fair equivilant...Boston is the most overrated city in the east.