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July 13, 2015 at 5:05 pm #825773
StumbledoreMemberBreeders put you here, Anonyme.
Boomers are your parents or grandparents.
You called out about 70% of this blog for being responsible for the end of days in one fell swoop.
Enjoy what time you’ve got left on this planet, and don’t worry so much about things you cannot
control, like the weather or climate :-)
@Yes2WS – Welcome to West Seattle. Now look what you’ve done haha.
July 13, 2015 at 5:36 pm #825774
anonymeParticipant1: Shocking! Say it ain’t so!! I thought I got here through immaculate conception!!
2: Actually, I AM a boomer.
3: Yup.
4: Who said I was “worrying”? Just stating the facts. BTW, climate is (or rather, was) something that we absolutely could have, and should have, controlled. Weather, no. Climate, yes. It’s now well past the point that a few Hail Mary’s can fix, and denial won’t save anyone.
July 13, 2015 at 6:06 pm #825775
clulessinwsParticipantAgree with a lot of what other posters have said: people don’t like change, government has done a bad job of regulating growth and infrastructure (traffic). I would just add that there are probably some people who are mad about the whole supply and demand thing. They are getting priced out because it was, until recently, sort of a secret – living cheaply 4 miles from downtown with water views and good schools (at least the schools used to be good now they are overcrowded). See previous comment, disgust with government “managing” growth..
July 13, 2015 at 7:15 pm #825776
tttParticipantI am a native western washingtonian and although I welcome new comers, I also cringe at all the new growth. I remember when it took only minutes to drive into Seattle from miles away instead of hours. I remember when there were more trees in the city than people, I remember when picking up in your neighborhood and keeping our city nice was the norm. i agree with Northwest. Welcome to our neighborhood, but please pick up after yourself and your kids at the park, please plant some trees on your parking strip to keep the shade and keep our city cool in the summers with all this sun (and where did the rain go?!) sometimes it is difficult to welcome in change and growth when you have such fond memories of what it used to be like…
July 13, 2015 at 7:56 pm #825777
clulessinwsParticipantWell said ttt.
July 14, 2015 at 5:28 am #825778
trickycooljParticipantHey Northwest, my family has been here longer since the 1800s pre statehood. Settled in Olympia, we even have a historic road sign in Lacey. And just like my grandma and grandpa that couldn’t wait to get out of that hick town in the 1950s and came to the big city and settled in West Seattle, so did I. Left Lacey for UW in 2003 and refuse to go back to that hick town. Great-grandma and grandma had so many siblings I was finding unknown 2nd cousins in English class in High School so clearly there’s no dating prospects for me there! Too bad the crime rate of High Point drove my family away in the late 60s I could have also been a WS native and been allowed to complain about new comers.
July 15, 2015 at 5:32 pm #825779
clulessinwsParticipantJust something I have been thinking about recently – West Seattle / Seattle doesn’t seem as friendly as it once was. I’ve been in the area or close by for 40 years. Maybe it’s just me but I feel like until recently, Seattle and the northwest in general was such a fun, cool, place with nice people and no road rage, very little crime and it’s done a 180. It is still a good area with decent community minded people but something has definitely changed. Can’t put my finger on it though – weather, more people?
July 15, 2015 at 5:42 pm #825780
wakefloodParticipantThe “it’s all about me” dynamic has taken root and amplified some of our more base instincts.
Surely there’s good community work still being done and that’s a very much needed element to balance out the fact that we’re being force fed a steady diet of consumerism, self-absorption and navel-gazing that has us all more circumspect of “the other guy’s motives”.
It’s not just here – it may even be less here than many other places but we are not immune.
July 15, 2015 at 7:13 pm #825781
datamuseParticipantJuly 15, 2015 at 7:21 pm #825782
melissaParticipantI moved here over half my life ago, in 1989. I’m lived in West Seattle since ’97. It’s changed hugely and not always for the better. I’m less bothered by the growth than I am by the lack of availability of housing and transportation for working people. I love my neighbors, my neighborhood, and my environs.
I try to take a walk each morning, as I find that it improves my mood greatly, in part because I’m outside and in part because I run into people who smile and say hello. Try it, Crankypants Changephobics! It’s good for the soul.
And yes, I’d like more rain and less traffic. But getting dark and fatalistic isn’t going to help me or anyone else.
July 15, 2015 at 8:20 pm #825783
LackingStyleParticipantIt’s a small community that is on a fast rise, all in all West Seattle is full of decent people, but with anything change can be hard.
We don’t have the great infrastructure to support the growth as well, so we will all need to be patient.
Much like the secret got let out Nationwide that Seattle is the place to be, locally the secret got out that West Seattle is the place to be.
There will be good and bad with the growth, and those of us that have been living here for decades will need to adjust to sharing our secret with many others.
I would also take blog comments with a grain of salt, and focus more on the folks you encounter in real life.
July 16, 2015 at 2:17 pm #825784
JoBParticipanti don’t think we should be patient about waiting for the infrastructure to support all of this growth..
waiting for the infrastructure is what created the parking lots known as I-5 and hwy 99
July 16, 2015 at 3:27 pm #825785
LackingStyleParticipantJoB – we don’t have a choice but to wait, the people are coming faster than we can prepare for it.
I agree that we need to move quickly now, but our bureaucratic process moves about as fast as JanS, while crossing the street while some Cretan is honking at her :-)
July 16, 2015 at 4:21 pm #825786
JoBParticipantSave_US_WSB
we don’t have to wait.
We can tie infrastructure into development fees..
Sure.. they will make less but not enough less to stop them from developing…
and we can insist on low income housing as part of that package
we get what we demand
and we aren’t demanding much
July 16, 2015 at 4:37 pm #825787
LackingStyleParticipantJoB –
Let me know where I can yell..I would like to start with revisiting the new bus lanes in and around the Alaska/Fauntlerory junctions. IMHO the amount of confusion and lane changes in that area make it worse than what it does to promote speedier buses :-)
One thing it might be good to wait for is the new people to help pay for those development fees.
July 16, 2015 at 4:49 pm #825788
JoBParticipantSave_Us_WSB
LOL.. do you mean we should wait for the new people to complain about the development fees they didn’t think they would have to be paying because they weren’t in place when they bought in?
if we are counting on them to agree to after the fact fees we are still going to be sitting on I-5 wondering when the idiot in front of us is going to stop blowing on their horn ;-)
The time to yell is now.. and the place to yell is every venue in which the new development guidelines are being discussed.
even this one :)
July 16, 2015 at 4:53 pm #825789
StumbledoreMemberFauntleroy junction can be the worst, depending on the time of day, thanks to the bus stopping in the street and leaving no place for cars to get around it.
July 16, 2015 at 4:59 pm #825790
LackingStyleParticipantJoB – what i mean is, all this cost is going to hit all of us, whether we like it or not.
Perhaps the meeting should be held in White Center so everyone can chillax with Stumbledore.
Squeaky wheel gets the grease, I know you subscribe.
July 16, 2015 at 5:37 pm #825791
StumbledoreMemberJust stand outside the marijuana “farmer’s market” and take a few deep breaths. That should initiate the chillaxing phase.
“A little dab’ll do ya.”
July 16, 2015 at 5:47 pm #825792
JoBParticipantStumbledore..
i don’t know whether to hope you have a steady supply to chillax every time you get in your car to leave the island or to pray that you don’t.
my brain just hit overload thinking about it
July 16, 2015 at 5:48 pm #825793
JoBParticipantSave_US_WSB
the question is whether we will pick up the tab for well planned development or for the mess that poorly planned development leaves behind..
which includes picking up the tab for this city’s homeless the most expensive and least effective ways possible…
it’s our choice. Either way, we are either moving or picking up the tab.
July 16, 2015 at 5:55 pm #825794
StumbledoreMemberJuly 16, 2015 at 6:04 pm #825795
LackingStyleParticipantJoB – I am not arguing, so #youwin?
July 16, 2015 at 11:45 pm #825796
JoBParticipantSave_Us_WSB
i wasn’t aware we were arguing.
i was clarifying my point.
and you?
i’d suggest we hold hands and jump in the sound
it seems to be that hot out
but for the life of me i can’t figure out whatever induced me to do that as a kid…
i vividly remember coming out of the water blue
and blue is not a good skin color for me
can we hoist a cool one from across the hood?
the lemon cucumbers have started ripening and i have lemon cucumber infused water…
i would suggest we join Stumbledore with some medibles.. but i gave that up in the 70s :(
LOL.. somehow i think my husband would object if i grabbed onto the back pocket of whatever pair of jeans walked by and followed them out the door ;-) yup.. i’m sure he would.
and these days i think they would too ;-)
July 17, 2015 at 2:23 pm #825797
LackingStyleParticipantUmmm……
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