> > > All of these responses are perfect examples of what I'm talking about. > > > Seattle is cold fish, bad sex, and grumpy people. Nice views, but > > > the people are intolerable.
> > Strange phenomena my wife pointed out to me. Seems the nicer the natural > > scenery, the less nice the inhabitants...
> Horseshit.
> Live in Salt Lake City for a couple of years and get back to us, hmmkay?
TrueWest wrote: >>like any other city there are all kinds of people. If you like the people >>where you live now, you >>will like the people in Seattle. What you experience in Seattle will depend >>much more on you, than >>on the people of Seattle.....
> I couldn't disagree more. Seattle is the most passive-aggressive > place I have ever lived. People are cold, distant and self-righteous. > In other places, the majority of the people have grown up there. In > Seattle, everyone has run from someplace else, except the locals who > are continually pissed off about having people move there.
> In other cities, people LIKE talking to strangers. In Seattle, > they'll lock up their wheels to let you cross the road, but they would > NEVER talk to you in line at the grocery store. Polite as hell, but > impersonal and dead.
xxxx Try eating hot peppers. They do wonders for digestion. Or find a mineral bath house that does colonic irrigation. Or do both. HTH,
>>>All of these responses are perfect examples of what I'm talking about. >>> Seattle is cold fish, bad sex, and grumpy people. Nice views, but >>>the people are intolerable.
>>Strange phenomena my wife pointed out to me. Seems the nicer the natural >>scenery, the less nice the inhabitants...
> Horseshit.
> Live in Salt Lake City for a couple of years and get back to us, hmmkay?
> Jim
xxxx Perhaps you could tell us about the difficulties you had there?
TrueWest wrote: > All of these responses are perfect examples of what I'm talking about. > Seattle is cold fish, bad sex, and grumpy people. Nice views, but > the people are intolerable.
> Glad I'm gone and back in the world where people act like humans, not > robots.
xxxx Back when we were making the B-17 and B-29 we were on the look out for spies. Word was " Loose Lips Sink Ships ". That kind of mentality has hung on over the years as we still do some military work. True Seattleites love the fall with the foggy days when it's so quiet. The fog acting as a sound deadener allows us to listen to ourselves for a while and no jets flying gives the feeling of silent isolation. Traffic slows way down and people go indoors or walk in it.
We're not a people town and never will be. For that head for NYC where just about the only entertainment *is* other people. Here on the Left coast we have too many outdoor distractions to be much interested in cosmopolitan city life. 29 .-)
> > > > All of these responses are perfect examples of what I'm talking about. > > > > Seattle is cold fish, bad sex, and grumpy people. Nice views, but > > > > the people are intolerable.
> > > Strange phenomena my wife pointed out to me. Seems the nicer the natural > > > scenery, the less nice the inhabitants. We're both well traveled, and after > > > thinking about it, damned if I didn't have to agree with her.
> > Beauty is in the eye of the beholder so it says more about you than the > > people you've met along the way.
> And, what do you know about the way my eye beholds beauty and the people > I've met along the way?
> > > People like you ought simply to be wiped from existence. I'd pay any > > > amount of taxes to make that happen. > > > Charlie
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I appreciate your pointing this out. I like websites like this. However, I believe that TrueWest and I are using the 3rd definition of "city" at www.dictionary.com as our usage. Although from the gazetteer site, we might use "metropolitan area" and be more acurate. Although we have a 'city council' and we don't have a "town council" or "metropolitan area council". We do have town meetings ! (^:
> I appreciate your pointing this out. I like > websites like this. However, I believe that > TrueWest and I are using the 3rd definition > of "city" at www.dictionary.com as our usage. > Although from the gazetteer site, we might > use "metropolitan area" and be more acurate. > Although we have a 'city council' and we don't > have a "town council" or "metropolitan area > council". We do have town meetings ! (^:
> > > > > All of these responses are perfect examples of what I'm talking about. > > > > > Seattle is cold fish, bad sex, and grumpy people. Nice views, but > > > > > the people are intolerable.
> > > > Strange phenomena my wife pointed out to me. Seems the nicer the natural > > > > scenery, the less nice the inhabitants. We're both well traveled, and after > > > > thinking about it, damned if I didn't have to agree with her.
> > > Beauty is in the eye of the beholder so it says more about you than the > > > people you've met along the way.
> > And, what do you know about the way my eye beholds beauty and the people > > I've met along the way?
> Just to further my point: Look at this newsgroup. It's a bunch of > angry fruit loops who are so busy being smarter than everyone else > they can't even have a civil conversation. I lurked on > seattle.general for years. Now I lurk on ri.general and you know > what? Everyone on that group is respectful...they know a bit about > each other's personal lives, even tho they haven't met in person. > They seem to *gasp* get along with one another.
> In seattle.general, you've got a bunch of idiots screaming at each > other. blech. Seattle is full of self-righteous buttheads, both > liberal and conservative.
What a coincidence. I hang out in both these news groups too : )
> On 18 Oct 2002 08:44:53 -0700, george.ngu...@sea.ddb.com (George) > wrote:
> >I'm looking to live in downtown. A lot of friends that I have spoken > >to have very nice things to say about the city, but they have not been > >able to articulate to me what the attraction is. I have received > >responses so far which give me an idea of politics and such, but don't > >'color' in the picture for me. What do you see as the benefits in > >coming to live in Seattle? Did you come for the city or for the job > >and the city was a benefit?
> Seattle is a waterside shantytown overlaid with tedious American > construction of recent vintage. The traffic is as bad as you have > heard and it will soon make you want to kill strangers or possibly > yourself. Seattle has the highest suicide rate in the nation, in part > because it is the northernmost major U.S. city and the winter days are > short and dreary. The dark, confining climate for six months of the > year helps explain why people in Seattle tend to be cold, distant, and > passive-aggressive.
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