First impression upon first visit to Seattle (Rainier: hotel, neighborhood)

[Beat02]

Holy shnikeys!

Beautiful, amazing, awesome. Looking forward to moving out there later this year.

[SaltyDawg]

We can use some more positive folks around here

[AcroJimmy2]

Glad you like it! It took a while for Seattle to grow on me, but now I love it.

Give us more details about where you went, what your specific impressions are, etc...

[Gentoo]

Originally Posted by Beat02

Holy shnikeys!

Beautiful, amazing, awesome. Looking forward to moving out there later this year.

Tell me about it

[satchseven]

i came here from st louis to work on a temp contract and fell in love with the area and plan to stay.very underrated city by rest of the usa

[Gentoo]

Originally Posted by satchseven

i came here from st louis to work on a temp contract and fell in love with the area and plan to stay.very underrated city by rest of the usa

When I was there, a guy in the hotel lobby was talking to a group of us and to the hotel staff. He referred to Seattle as "one of America's best kept secrets". Forget where he was from. Even the British guy who was just traveling accross the country made a similar remark.

[SeattleWA]

Great! I'm sure you'll have a wonderful time buying cheap property and finding a job.

[eskercurve]

I moved from St. Louis to Seattle about 4 years ago, originally from Chicago. In that time, I've gone on amazing road trips through natural beauty, found the love of my life, advanced in my job, and met cool people in this cool city.

Yeah, housing will cost you 3x as much here. Yeah, cost of food is 2x here. Yeah, the hills are a challenge when you drive manual and the roads are terrible. But I wouldn't want to live anywhere else.

St. Louis has Laclede's landing, riverboat casinos, nice malls, the City Museum, an amazing arboretum with a surrounding cool neighborhood, the french quarter, dogtown, and the Budweiser brewery, but Seattle just blows it away. No more City Museum, a trip to Pike Place suffices for that. We've got no huuge brewery, but make up for it with dozens of smaller brewers (with infinitely better beer), nearly every neighborhood is cool in some way (even Rainier valley has its ... uniqueness), and let's not forget, we have similar demographics of white people to everyone else, but have much more diversity in my opinion (i.e. minority groups have bigger impact here, and the white folk come from all stripes).

If you're different in St. Louis, that's a bad thing. Best be gettin' to your Cardinals game, drink some Bud Light, play some poker, and play some golf on a 96 degree day at 100% humidity.

You will love it here.

[Zippy7fo]

Originally Posted by eskercurve

I moved from St. Louis to Seattle about 4 years ago, originally from Chicago. In that time, I've gone on amazing road trips through natural beauty, found the love of my life, advanced in my job, and met cool people in this cool city.

Yeah, housing will cost you 3x as much here. Yeah, cost of food is 2x here. Yeah, the hills are a challenge when you drive manual and the roads are terrible. But I wouldn't want to live anywhere else.

St. Louis has Laclede's landing, riverboat casinos, nice malls, the City Museum, an amazing arboretum with a surrounding cool neighborhood, the french quarter, dogtown, and the Budweiser brewery, but Seattle just blows it away. No more City Museum, a trip to Pike Place suffices for that. We've got no huuge brewery, but make up for it with dozens of smaller brewers (with infinitely better beer), nearly every neighborhood is cool in some way (even Rainier valley has its ... uniqueness), and let's not forget, we have similar demographics of white people to everyone else, but have much more diversity in my opinion (i.e. minority groups have bigger impact here, and the white folk come from all stripes).

If you're different in St. Louis, that's a bad thing. Best be gettin' to your Cardinals game, drink some Bud Light, play some poker, and play some golf on a 96 degree day at 100% humidity.

You will love it here.

great post.....i'll be visiting in 2 weeks...

[pw72]

I love threads like this...newcomers discovering the joy of se...

...attle.