This is what it's like to live in the Seattle-Bellevue metro area (to buy, versus)

[Diana Holbrook]

I am sorry you fell and no one helped. I'd like to think I would help if I had seen it. I hope I would have! That's just basic humanity.

I really didn't expect the story to end how it did! But I thought the story was going to come back around to the bag of dog poo! I imagined maybe you were knocked unconscious, and transported to the hospital, and the funny part was that the hospital staff - being diligent to not make judgments or assumptions, had kept all your personal items for you and you realized when you checked out, that they'd catalogued and kept the bag of poo!

Sorry... but that's where my mind went, and I hope my version and visuals are amusing to someone besides me.

[CalWorth]

Originally Posted by jabogitlu

Eh. This whole thing smells like a boomer complaint post.

The nicest people I've seen here in my neighborhood (Capitol Hill) are the folks who don't have homes, don't have money, don't have anything. The snootiest and by FAR rudest people I've encountered in the metro area are the wealthy folks around the Lake Bellevue area.

Cut it with the boomer comments. What does that comment accomplish?

I'm also in disbelief regarding some of the responses. You people are COLD.

The OP is correct. People in Seattle are very inconsiderate. They are also extremely aggressive drivers.


OP, I'm sorry this happened to you. Sorry I didn't comment before. I hope you are better & that something like this does not happen to you again.

[Jess1175]

Originally Posted by usernametaken

If you ever drive in the East Coast, Texas, LA, Chicago etc. you will think that Seattle is the most peaceful and cordial populous place in the US.

If you look at homicides per capita, you will think that Seattle is the Japan or Scandinavia of the US.

I grew up in Chicago and the surrounding suburbs, and people do stop and help. I’ve lived here since 2017, and the Seattle freeze is very real. Chicago is a big city but people are genuinely friendly.

[CalWorth]

Originally Posted by Jess1175

I grew up in Chicago and the surrounding suburbs, and people do stop and help. I’ve lived here since 2017, and the Seattle freeze is very real. Chicago is a big city but people are genuinely friendly.

I have been to Chicago & agree with you.

[CrazyDonkey]

People have become even more desensitized than they normally are. Bothell can be pretty anonymous and strip-mallish, compared to places that are more of a community, compared to Kirkland, for instance.

[hindsight2020]

Well, anecdotal as it may, Seattle Freeze is the only antisocial dynamic pinned on a region proper, that happens to garner enough traction to have its own wikipage. If it walks like a duck. Don't shoot the messenger and all that jazz...

[Bluefox]

To be honest I might have thought, based on your description of the event, that you might have been homeless and/or mentally ill having an episode, IF I didn’t see you actually fall and only saw you when you were already down.

I had a very bizarre experience at the Fred Meyer in Shoreline a few months ago where a lady walked up to me and accused me of working for the CIA and tapping her phone and spying on her and went on and on and on in this stream of consciousness type of rant, something about Elon Musk, while following me around the store. I finally flagged down an employee who got the manager and they had to come and have her escorted out. Then she really started having a meltdown, throwing a tantrum and screaming about lord knows what. And the crazy thing was she looked like a completely normal, older woman, like she could be someone’s grandmother. Well dressed and well groomed, just shopping in the dairy section. So you really never know… but it was one of the few times in my life where I really felt unsafe even as a full grown adult male, just because her behavior was so erratic and unstable… like, what if she had a gun?

Anyway… my point is that there is a lot of that in this area for various reasons and I do think it’s had a bit of a chilling effect on the social fabric, unfortunately.

[Gaylord_Focker]

Originally Posted by usernametaken

If you ever drive in the East Coast, Texas, LA, Chicago etc. you will think that Seattle is the most peaceful and cordial populous place in the US.

If you look at homicides per capita, you will think that Seattle is the Japan or Scandinavia of the US.

I've driven everywhere. Seattle has some decent, friendly drivers.

[homesinseattle]

Originally Posted by hindsight2020

Well, anecdotal as it may, Seattle Freeze is the only antisocial dynamic pinned on a region proper, that happens to garner enough traction to have its own wikipage. If it walks like a duck. Don't shoot the messenger and all that jazz...

There are more: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Minnesota_nice

[jabogitlu]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bless_your_heart