Why are people in Washington so pissed off? (to live, military)

[Botev1912]

Originally Posted by bad apples

You have proved nothing, please go back to yammering about the Seattle climate. Nobody cares. I did move but I will be posting in the Washington forum when it relates to something I wish to debate.

you have proved that your posts shouldn't be taken seriously.

[bad apples]

Originally Posted by Botev1912

you have proved that your posts shouldn't be taken seriously.

How so? Just because you don't like my opinions doesn't mean they aren't valid. I have read a few of your posts and I disagree with them but I don't say they shouldn't be taken seriously. High muckety muck!

[bad apples]

Originally Posted by nowhereman427

people in Washington state who own homes could also be very angry about their property taxes going up 30% in one year and losing their house.

It is extremely expensive to live there. Even in the rural areas.

[bad apples]

Originally Posted by thatguy950

That certainly sounds like the antithesis of Seattle. This area's smugness got to me faster than the poor weather, cost of living for what you get, and traffic/drivers. I am lucky (more like worked my a$$ off and used my negative experience as motivation) I am able to move like you did, I swear sometimes I think people up here enjoy being "mad" at the world, rather than simply changing their situation.

Very well said in my opinion, glad you had means to leave as I did. It gets old listening to the rhetoric.

[bad apples]

Originally Posted by Blackhawk4440

Bad Apples:
I've brought this same point up with people who complain about the weather here, and that the weather contributes to the bad attitudes. I know people who've moved to Alaska---where the climate is way worse and they say that Alaskans are friendly, there's a small, but vibrant social scene in Juneau and there's nothing like the sheer meanness and hyper-uptightness that you encounter here.

Yet the Seattle apologists will always come back with: 'The problem is with YOU' and "It's like that EVERYWHERE!"

No, it certainly isn't.

While I would say the weather may have a small role to play, I think it is more about the smugness like ThatGuy stated. It is not like that everywhere at all. You get dirty looks in that place just for appearing different, like forgetting to wear your required piece of North Face clothing or buying coffee at McDonald's.

[Yeledaf]

Bad weather makes people resentful and unhappy.

[nutleynut]

Originally Posted by dolph09

I'm from Texas (home of the original pissed off man with his bumper stickered pickup, loaded gun, and no-nonsense stare, the type of man you don't mess with). I've been all over the country.

I've recently worked some assignments in Vancouver, twice, and I've been to Seattle and the surrounding area both times. And I have to say, I have never encountered such pissed off people as in Washington. Which I am bit disappointed by because I love Seattle and have long thought of it as my ideal city to relocate to.

What is it? The weather? Bad economy? The sheer distance from everywhere else?

It's also a difficult place to get a feel for. Are the people liberal or conservative? Are they intellectuals or roughnecks? This too is surprising because one would think that, lacking the diversity of other places, Washington would have a particular culture. But if there is, I certainly didn't find it.

I get the suspicion that, underneath the superficial flag waving, people in Washington secretly despise the rest of the country. I wouldn't be surprised if some day the PNW forms its own country.

They grew up in America and now as adults realise they were lied to the whole time and can't figure out how to fix that because of the fake education they were given and the economic stranglehold they are held in that forces them to have to cut their fellow mans throat to "get ahead" which is only really a less awful place to be by shallow and petty measurements than the one they are in now.
Yea America!

[PollyGlott]

Originally Posted by bad apples

Very well said in my opinion, glad you had means to leave as I did. It gets old listening to the rhetoric.

Yes. Bad Apples, it does get old...
So, when are you going to start posting some positive things in the forum of your new happy home, wherever that is, and stop returning here like a jilted lover to reiterate the same things over and over and over?
Sigh.

[Olympian2]

I must say that I have never encountered multitudes of pissed off people in Washington. Typically, I am the one who is pissed off by the "safe drivers" blocking up the lefter lanes. I've just assumed that the need to drive so safe and slow in the left lane was some subconscious political expression.

But then I rarely venture east of Olympia, and I've only been east of the Olympics and north of Sea-Tac once.

[bad apples]

Originally Posted by PollyGlott

Yes. Bad Apples, it does get old...
So, when are you going to start posting some positive things in the forum of your new happy home, wherever that is, and stop returning here like a jilted lover to reiterate the same things over and over and over?
Sigh.

I will stop posting when others stop starting threads on the topic. Keep in mind I never started any of these complaining threads. So clearly I am not the only one. Washington survivors need to know they aren't alone.