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Old 10-31-2016, 09:24 AM
 
Location: In a perfect world winter does not exist
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Unless legally forced to no one should be subjected to Puget Sound and Seattle life.
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Old 10-31-2016, 09:49 AM
 
Location: Alamogordo, NM
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87112 - how are you digging Albuquerque? I've noticed you're posting on the New Mexico threads now and that you've moved over there.
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Old 10-31-2016, 09:54 AM
 
Location: In a perfect world winter does not exist
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Joke Joke
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Old 10-31-2016, 12:17 PM
 
Location: West Coast
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Unless legally forced to no one should be subjected to Puget Sound and Seattle life.
Yep, Seattle is a necessary evil in my life (for now).
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Old 11-04-2016, 05:17 PM
 
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Seattle is ..... full of lib tards and smelly hippies
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Old 11-04-2016, 05:22 PM
 
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Seattle is ..... full of lib tards and smelly hippies
That's right. Tell your friends!
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Old 11-05-2016, 12:12 PM
 
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I've thought, planned and wanted to at least try living in Seattle for about 15 years now. I've been there 50+ times and at one point I lived in Eastern WA for about 9 years. Now I don't know if I ever will be in a position to make that leap and I wonder if I do, if it will even remember the place I grew to love in my teens/early twenties. It's a very hard city to get a handle on.

When I was young, in the early/mid 90's, Seattle was this amazing, artistic place, full of dive bars, music everywhere, and tons of small business. People seemed open to everything. It was also a compact city with an energy. You could get from one side of it to another in about 1/2 hr.

Now? It feels more like a corporate city. I asked people in Capitol Hill where a good music venue was, and not one person that I asked even knew. Most said they didn't ever go out to hear music. There was a noticeable drop in creative, entrepreneurial vibe that the city had when I was a kid. I saw more frat looking kids with a planned urban look than I did genuine, blue collar class people. I remember a techno club in the U-Distric called the "Underground" that I use to go to. It's no longer there and nothing close to it seems to even exist anywhere in the city now.

I guess this is the way of all big cities now. The tech/corporate environment has driven the cost of everything up and driven the soul out of a lot of cities. If you desire that, it's almost best to find a up and coming small/midsize city and grow with it before it gets gentrified.
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