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How about the likelihood that your governor will make a proclamation that will cost you money or your freedom...that's where I don't trust the Northeast anymore.
Aren't personal freedoms generally better protected in the Northeast?
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Originally Posted by Guineas
Bellevue is massively more economically powerful than Quincy, so very little resemblance to Quincy except that there are large Asian communities there. From an economic standpoint it's more like Cambridge, but from an urban core standpoint it's not really Cambridge. I can't walk from downtown Seattle to downtown Bellevue like I can with Boston to Cambridge. To me Cambridge is not a suburb, it's just an extension of Boston core. Boston without Cambridge really wouldn't be the Boston in our imagination. It would be a far less exciting and interesting city.
Perhaps Bellevue is like if you took Kendall Square and plopped it into downtown Quincy?
Bellevue is massively more economically powerful than Quincy, so very little resemblance to Quincy except that there are large Asian communities there. From an economic standpoint it's more like Cambridge, but from an urban core standpoint it's not really Cambridge. I can't walk from downtown Seattle to downtown Bellevue like I can with Boston to Cambridge. To me Cambridge is not a suburb, it's just an extension of Boston core. Boston without Cambridge really wouldn't be the Boston in our imagination. It would be a far less exciting and interesting city.
Bellevue is massively more economically powerful than Quincy, so very little resemblance to Quincy except that there are large Asian communities there. From an economic standpoint it's more like Cambridge, but from an urban core standpoint it's not really Cambridge. I can't walk from downtown Seattle to downtown Bellevue like I can with Boston to Cambridge. To me Cambridge is not a suburb, it's just an extension of Boston core. Boston without Cambridge really wouldn't be the Boston in our imagination. It would be a far less exciting and interesting city.
I agree on all fronts.
My question is, do you/people in Seattle view Bellevue as a suburb? I never did. It's not exactly Cambridge as far as connecting to the core of Seattle, but it is the Seattle areas equivalent for many other reasons.
Either way, my point in bringing up Cambridge, is that it's a far more apt comparison to Bellevue. You pick any random 95/495 town and compare it to Bellevue... And it's never really going to add up. Which is why I question the idea of comparing Wellesley and Bellevue.
It's a hybrid. Downtown Bellevue is the region's #2 downtown. It serves some of the roles of a regional downtown but not all (city hall, some arts, minimal some social services...). Bellevue overall has some urban spots but is mostly suburbia.
You could argue that the U District is our #2 downtown in urbanity, or that Downtown Tacoma is the #2 due to the roles it serves, though it's pretty small.
My question is, do you/people in Seattle view Bellevue as a suburb? I never did. It's not exactly Cambridge as far as connecting to the core of Seattle, but it is the Seattle areas equivalent for many other reasons
Yes, Bellevue definitely is a suburb of Seattle. One completely unscientific and anecdotal way of seeing this is there are two very busy Seattle reddit subs (one progressive wing, one moderate wing) full of people from both the city of Seattle and the suburbs. Meanwhile, the BellevueWA and Eastside subs are mostly dead. Secondly, Seattle and Bellevue are both in the same county, so have significant political, judicial and administrative overlap (even Cambridge, St. Paul, and North Dallas burbs are not in the same county as their respective primary city).
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