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Old 09-30-2017, 03:55 PM
 
Location: Northern California
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No he has a point. The jungle Amazon built in SLU is soulless as well as all the new condos that replaced the character filled old homes that were in Ballard, Beacon Hill and North Seattle. Its not all rosy going foward. Everywhere tech people invade they don't add much flavor to a city.
The OP just seems like a whiner, but you do make an important point, 87112. Has any dimension of life in Seattle been improved by the tech influx?
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Old 09-30-2017, 04:36 PM
 
Location: In a perfect world winter does not exist
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The OP just seems like a whiner, but you do make an important point, 87112. Has any dimension of life in Seattle been improved by the tech influx?

Lots of khaki pants sold, I have no idea. I have been to San Jose, Redmond, Denver and some other tech hubs. Never wanted to go back really except if some money was waiting for me there. OTOH poorer places like Tijuana, Small towns in Poor countries, have soul and I go there for visits.
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Old 09-30-2017, 05:19 PM
 
Location: 98166
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Sure would be nice if the people complaining about Seattle would quickly relocate to another location. Why suffer when a better place can be found? We are growing ridiculously fast, with cranes everywhere. The midwest will be cheaper and maybe they will have a better chance finding a date. If New York or Chicago is preferable, by all means, go to there. Life is too short to be so unhappy.

Seattle once again nation’s fastest-growing big city; population exceeds 700,000


"For the first time, Seattle is adding more people on average each year than during the post-Gold-Rush boom years. We’ve never grown this fast, and we’ve never been this populous."

https://www.seattletimes.com/seattle...xceeds-700000/

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Old 09-30-2017, 06:41 PM
 
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We enjoy Seattle all around. Our families like coming here and we la la luv Whidbey.
Agree. I like Seattle and other cities.
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Old 09-30-2017, 07:35 PM
 
Location: WA Desert, Seattle native
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Change is constant. Just ask those who lived here in the early 20th century. Of course, you can't. But I think trying to bring Seattle back to another time is pointless. Move onward and upward. Oh, I guess this was the theme of the 1962 Worlds Fair, too. I wonder how many thought Seattle was soulless in the 1910's, 1920's, 1960's, etc. Adapt, or move somewhere else. Time marches on.
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Old 09-30-2017, 07:48 PM
 
Location: Edmonds, WA
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Sure would be nice if the people complaining about Seattle would quickly relocate to another location. Why suffer when a better place can be found? We are growing ridiculously fast, with cranes everywhere. The midwest will be cheaper and maybe they will have a better chance finding a date. If New York or Chicago is preferable, by all means, go to there. Life is too short to be so unhappy.

Seattle once again nation’s fastest-growing big city; population exceeds 700,000


"For the first time, Seattle is adding more people on average each year than during the post-Gold-Rush boom years. We’ve never grown this fast, and we’ve never been this populous."

https://www.seattletimes.com/seattle...xceeds-700000/
Well I think that's part of the problem. South Lake Union IS boring as hell.

Amazon's failing efforts to build a neighborhood could be a bad omen - Business Insider

The consolidation of tech tends to have a very sterilizing effect on the host area. So we can talk about how quickly Seattle is growing or how much it's "booming" but long term I think we have to ask ourselves what sort of city do we want to be?
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Old 09-30-2017, 08:06 PM
 
Location: WA Desert, Seattle native
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Well I think that's part of the problem. South Lake Union IS boring as hell.

Amazon's failing efforts to build a neighborhood could be a bad omen - Business Insider

The consolidation of tech tends to have a very sterilizing effect on the host area. So we can talk about how quickly Seattle is growing or how much it's "booming" but long term I think we have to ask ourselves what sort of city do we want to be?
That is indeed a good point. There definitely is a sterile feel to SLU. Back in the late 80's there was a plan to make SLU into a grand "Central Park" concept, but for whatever reason, never happened, (but probably due to developers losing potential future revenue). However, if that plan had come to pass, imagine what it might have looked like today. A grand park with high rises around the edges. Sound familiar to anyone from a city called NYC?
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Old 09-30-2017, 09:37 PM
 
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homesinseattle, absolutely love your post. My wife and I are considering moving to the Seattle area from the Midwest and are terrified as we don't know anyone or anything about the area. What you just described is a dream for us. We truly enjoy diversity and experiencing other cultures. The only travel we've had outside of the Midwest has been to Paris, France and we absolutely fell in love with the culture and way of life there, which seems very similar to what you described.


Cant wait to have a chance to visit the area and find some hole in the wall places!
I've been to all of the 40 largest cities in the U.S. and, IMO, Seattle is the most naturally attractive (and I'm an SF Bay Area native). If I moved to Washington, I would prefer a different part of the state (for living), but I enjoy visiting Seattle, and Seattle is obviously going to be far more like Paris than any other place in Washington.

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Old 09-30-2017, 10:04 PM
 
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How can there be "not enough women" (that perennial complaint), when there are hospitals full of nurses all around town, three universities and several community colleges, not to mention the schools, all staffed by women?
This I don't get.

I haven't noticed a big imbalance in terms of numbers between men and women.
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Old 09-30-2017, 10:55 PM
 
Location: Northern California
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Change is constant. Just ask those who lived here in the early 20th century. Of course, you can't. But I think trying to bring Seattle back to another time is pointless. Move onward and upward. Oh, I guess this was the theme of the 1962 Worlds Fair, too. I wonder how many thought Seattle was soulless in the 1910's, 1920's, 1960's, etc. Adapt, or move somewhere else. Time marches on.
don't you think the people who live in a city ought to be able to decide what kind of changes they want? (provided that's not done in a discriminatory way, of course)

All those boxy new buildings aren't just degrading SLU aesthetically, they've flooded the area with more traffic than its streets can accommodate. Had they been offered a chance to vote on this, wouldn't the people of Seattle have said no?
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