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June 21, 2020 at 8:07 am #981330
aaParticipantLast few years if anyone tells me they are thinking of moving to Seattle I tell them not to do it. Crowds, crime, cost of living, homelessness, garbage and abandoned vehicles everywhere. It all feels sad that a city I moved to 25 years ago has gotten to be so beaten down.
Downtown streets are quiet because of the virus leaving garbage, tents, homeless and mentally ill people fill the sidewalks.
Honest political protest degrades to police abandoning their precinct, a Mayor who lets people take over city streets?
Roads crumble due to lack of funding to repair.
I am a Democrat and I can honestly say I can’t remember the last Seattle mayor I had confidence in.
How can a whole day go by without hearing from the Mayor after human remains come ashore in bags and a person is shot and killed on Capitol Hill?June 21, 2020 at 11:45 am #981332
gxnxParticipantWhat do you expect? Seattle was mentioned numerous times during the Trump’s rally in Tulsa yesterday.
You might not like Trump, but he is correct about the leadership(or none of it) ….poor leadership!!
Look at Chicago(Southside) and Detriot(all Democrats), every weekends there are shooting deaths. Seattle is already up there…June 21, 2020 at 5:16 pm #981350
GracianoParticipantThe City Console should have a no confidence vote on the Mayor, But it would be hard to vote the Mayor out, when the Console is part of the Problem…
The last four Mayors have FAILED Seattle..
Greg Nicholas
Mike McGinn
Ed Murray
Jenny DurkanTalk on the internet..
Come July 4th @ 12pm, the CHOP will be CHOPPED!June 22, 2020 at 7:09 am #981380
Michael WaldoParticipantI was ambivalent about the CHOP until there were two shooting two nights in a row and one man killed and crowds not letting the police through to the body and interviews with actually residents of the street wanting their streets back. Time to close it down.
June 22, 2020 at 9:19 am #981381
newnativeParticipantI honestly don’t understand the obsession with complaining about one’s own residence, as if it’s any worse off or that it’s especially worse off than other cities. I have lived in several places across the country and maintain contact with people in those places, and they say the same exact things, “this town is terrible, unsafe, dirty and all the homeless are here”. Well, guess what? There has been a nationwide epidemic of drug addiction going on for a few years now. There has been homelessness due to a scarcity of affordable housing and income insecurity. Healthcare costs have been skyrocketing, which causes bankruptcy, medical neglect and sometimes job insecurity. This has been happening all over, Seattle isn’t special. You don’t like the trash on the ground? Pick it up. You don’t like your local leaders? vote them out. I didn’t vote for Jenny Durkan, she’s acting exactly as I knew she would. The qualities that brought me here are still valid and I know I’m better off here than where I came from.
June 25, 2020 at 8:07 pm #981651
bluefalconParticipantTell that to the Duwamish Tribe ask them how they feel about Seattle I’m sure Chief Sealth is looking down on us and shaking his head!!!! 25 years is that all try 54 years here west Seattle has gone to hell
June 26, 2020 at 8:39 am #981668
heartlessParticipantActually he’d be looking up at us, what with him being underground and all.
And as for the rest of you: yikes. You like complaining so much you need to go and invent things to complain about, and that says a lot.
June 27, 2020 at 8:27 pm #981813
aaParticipantWait, is heartless complaining about people complaining?
June 27, 2020 at 8:58 pm #981817
heartlessParticipantNot a complaint, just an observation! I enjoy perusing the forums, so I’m generally in favor of posts (even when they are a bit silly).
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