If we're to be honest with ourselves, 95% of Seattle neighborhoods are total trash (Bellevue: apartments, rental)

[KonaldDuth]

If I were to take a map of Seattle and highlight which areas are actually "nice" -- meaning that the yards and home exteriors are maintained and sometimes it even looks like someone lives there -- it would be just a couple small areas:

* A few sections of Lake Washington Blvd
* A few sections of Magnolia
* Laurelhurst
* A few tiny sections on the West side of Sand Point Way
* A slice of the perimeter of Green Lake (the innermost row of houses on the Southeastern side)
* A couple blocks between Ballard and Phinney Ridge
* NE Ravenna Blvd between 17th Ave and 55th St

You need at least $10,000,000 to afford a house in those tiny areas, and the rest of the city is a complete dump. You don't realize it if you've been here for too long because your standards lower.

[Neerwhal]

Do you seriously think that people who live here don’t leave Seattle and that we don’t have tourists?

Are you a troll or clinically insane? Trash?

Million dollar homes? Have you ever even been to Seattle?

[homesinseattle]

Duth, you know very little. Have you actually been to neighborhood streets in Wedgwood, Mount Baker, Phinney Ridge, Sunset Hill, Admiral West Seattle, Madrona, Queen Anne, Washington Park, Bryant, Montlake, Broadmoor, Madison Valley, View Ridge, North Beach, Blue Ridge, Seward Park, Windermere, Hawthorne Hills, Madison Park, Wallingford? I could go on, and on, and on. You are so wrong. Shall I take you on a tour? Wait, on second thought, I'm not sure I'd want to be in the car with you. You sound pretty judgmental and myopic. This city is filled with beautiful neighborhoods, I see them every day.

[RotseCherut]

When I lived in Ballard a few months ago, I actually thought the area of Ballard north of 63rd Ave and above was very nice and upscale. Most of the homes were the older Cape Cod, Craftsman an Victorians and they all had nicely kept yards, beautiful gardens and the neighborhood was very clean. If you go down closer to Market St, Ballard because more grittier and that is where the homeless people live and reside. However, there is still charm in some neighborhoods like Ballard.

Wedgewood is a very upscale neighborhood and the Ravenna area is pretty beautiful with many older luxury homes and well established gardens. Some parts of Ravenna around Ravenna Park almost seem like they would be befitting of an upscale neighborhood in London or Paris.

With that being said, Seattle has a lot of dingy, gritty and run down spots around the city. High end neighborhoods can be bordering really scuzzy and low-class neighborhoods. However, some of these once run-down neighborhoods are becoming gentrified and being sterilized with mass produced condos and apartments that have no character or class. They rip out all the old gardens, trees and landscaping and replace them with sterile stone landscaping or small nursery aged plants that look like they don't belong in such a lush and old city.

I actually prefer some of the grit and scuzziness to the sterility, lack of character and soullessness that is emerging in many Seattle neighborhoods including Fremont, Ballard and Green Lake.

[flyingsaucermom]

How funny... my husband are looking into possibly buying a rental outside the area and were checking out homes on Zillow last night in four different cities (Mephis, Austin, Colorado Springs, Little Rock). Of the four only Austin consistently had homes with nice exteriors.. but inside... my God... super overdone and super... well... super "Texan"...

So. Much. Oak.

I guess the whole saying of "you can take the girl out of Texas, but you can't take the Texas out of the girl" just doesn't do it for me...

But that's a different conversation..

Nearly all the other homes in the three other cities were completely void of "character". If the homes had faces they each would look so depressed you would recommend they take antidepressants.

And it led to an interesting conversation between my husband and I... he basically said, "well, there's how you get Donald Trump in office". It was an exaggerated statement, but there is definitely something to it. When I walk around Seattle I feel like everything is still up and coming. I can feel the Amazon money pouring over downtown (Seattle, Bellevue, Kirkland, Issaquah, etc..) and it's grabbing and gentrifying nearly every nook and cranny of anything that's outside of Puget Sound, Lake Washington or Lake Sammamish.

Have you seen our homeless population? Even our homeless wear North Face...

I would gladly take a home in Ballard, Queen Anne, Leschi, Madison Park, parts of Columbia City, Crown Hill, Greenwood, West Seattle, etc..

[mhays25]

This guy is inventing crap for his own amusement. Or his own therapy based on his posts.

[pnwguy2]

Don't feed the troll. He is hungry for reactions. Won't get one from me.

[Ruth4Truth]

Originally Posted by KonaldDuth

If I were to take a map of Seattle and highlight which areas are actually "nice" -- meaning that the yards and home exteriors are maintained and sometimes it even looks like someone lives there -- it would be just a couple small areas:

* A few sections of Lake Washington Blvd
* A few sections of Magnolia
* Laurelhurst
* A few tiny sections on the West side of Sand Point Way
* A slice of the perimeter of Green Lake (the innermost row of houses on the Southeastern side)
* A couple blocks between Ballard and Phinney Ridge
* NE Ravenna Blvd between 17th Ave and 55th St

You need at least $10,000,000 to afford a house in those tiny areas, and the rest of the city is a complete dump. You don't realize it if you've been here for too long because your standards lower.

You don't seem to know Seattle very well. Do you even live in Seattle? lol

All of Maple Leaf and Victory Heights. All of the Ravenna District. Parts of Greenwood. The U District between the university and Ravenna Park, Capitol Hill near the park. Madison Park. Much of West Seattle. Wedgwood, Wallingford.

[KonaldDuth]

Originally Posted by Ruth4Truth

You don't seem to know Seattle very well. Do you even live in Seattle? lol

All of Maple Leaf and Victory Heights. All of the Ravenna District. Parts of Greenwood. The U District between the university and Ravenna Park, Capitol Hill near the park. Madison Park. Much of West Seattle. Wedgwood, Wallingford.

You have your "Seattle blinders" on.

I live near Ravenna.

Here's a corner on Ravenna:



Looks like it could be Flint, MI.

Greenwood? The "Land of many sirens," as it is called? I lived there too. One of the dumpiest areas of Seattle Proper.

Keep in mind that I'm talking about the residential neighborhoods. Obviously a "neighborhood" in the larger sense of the word seems nice if you live in a new apartment near upscale/trendy bars and restaurants.

[thatguy950]

Bruh it’s not 95% let’s be real













It’s more like 97%