Can't stand my red state! (Seattle, Snoqualmie: rent, houses, unemployed)

[PollyGlott]

Originally Posted by NorthwestRepublic

I agree with freebird stay in Kansas most of Washington does not need or want you. All the people who will encourage you to move here are likely transplants who are also not wanted are liked by the locals.If you need a break from kansas come visit, but just remember to go home.

This response is disrespectful, mean-spirited, and total baloney.

[Cinebar]

Originally Posted by PollyGlott

This response is disrespectful, mean-spirited, and total baloney.

Pathetic, huh?

I've lived in Washington since 1975 (after having grown up in Oregon). I wonder if that makes me a "transplant?

[Inkpoe]

NorthwestRepublic lives in Alaska. Talk about irony.

[Cinebar]

Originally Posted by Inkpoe

NorthwestRepublic lives in Alaska. Talk about irony.

LOL

I'm not sure how you know that, but good catch anyway.

[NorthwestRepublic]

Tell that to all the farmers, loggers, and fishermen who have lost their lively hoods do to the "economic progress" that all the transplants have brought.

In the past these people would have been able to live comfortably doing as they always have. Now they are stuck working at walmart and mowing your lawns just so that they can afford to keep living in run down apartments and trailer parks.

[pw72]

You have to understand the underlying culture of Seattle. There was once a famous columnist in the P.I, named Emmett Watson, who created the "Lesser Seattle Movement". He was quite clever and influential in the 70's and 80's. Please google this. His ideas, though dying, still resonate with some Seattle natives, AND newcomers, ironically. The basic idea he had was please visit but don't stay. He wanted the area to stay smallish, while still taking advantage of the tourist dollars. I have always disagreed with his premise, but I will admit he was very influential and his ideas, as I said, are still being tossed around. BTW, he was always tongue in cheek, as an above poster here probably was as well. In fact, if I didn't know better, I would have guessed NorthwestRepublic was actually the ghost of Emmett Watson.

[Seacove]

I'm with Cinebar in not wanting the beauty overwhelmed by a heavy population and traffic but a level of growth will invariably happen. As Inkpoe noted, NorthwestRepublic actually edited his location, which is Juneau, Alaska. First he said they could not afford to stay, then he said he was just going to school there. It's not important except he made a half dozen posts telling everyone to stay away when he doesn't live here himself.

[eskercurve]

What's not to like about public transport?

Anyways, it would seem you would be happier here, so go for it is what I say. Only one way to know if you like it here or not.

[Lamplight]

People are always going to move to other areas of the country, regardless of what anyone else wants. I moved here from Tennessee because I hated living there and I love it here. Why should I stay somewhere I hate, being miserable, if I don't have to? In my home town there were many, many transplants, and I didn't mind. When I was a kid (in the 1980s) my town had 30,000 people. When I left last July, it had roughly 108,000. Naturally there were some negative aspects to this level of growth, but overall I think it was for the better. If my town hadn't grown that much, some other town would have, just like any other place. Some natives leave, some transplants move in, and the overall population of the country continues to rise. For every transplant who arrives here, how many natives and other transplants move out? If a city is appealing to a lot of people, it only makes sense that a lot of people will want to move there. If you want to live somewhere that doesn't attract many newcomers, you'll either be looking for a town that sucks, or hope your taste is very different from the majority.

[rainforest338]

I would think that a person would want to move to an area because they like the area and would hope it would stay as is. My thought is you sort of give up the old place and become part of the new when you move, more than trying to make the new place like the old place. Some examples, people I know on the Olympic Peninsula have moved up from California and one of the first things they did was to clear off all the trees on their land---so they could have the views from all directions. Another, (again view related) was to enact a local ordinance that prohibited hay bales over X feet tall and couldn't be covered with blue tarps. All kinds of rules for pets. I realize an area will have a certain amount of change just because of expansion or new regulations, but if someplace else is so much better because of a food chain/dog law/tax process/liquor store set up/etc, then maybe go back to that place.