Once again, somebody’s been visiting another planet where the cities have the same names as those on Earth:
Somebody’s been traveling under the influence of Ambien, or something.
Or maybe this report was filed in 1988 and they only got round to publishing it now. Whatever, here are a few of the beautiful landscapes in Seattle:
…and I wasn’t even trying.
If someone visits Seattle as a result of having read this article, they should sue the stupid newspaper. Talk about fake news…
Have you seen the ads touting visiting Los Angeles !!
Playing on some ROKU channels talking abut all of the ‘fun’ things
one can do – unfortunately the sky high cost, homeless ‘areas’, some
quite LARGE, expensive EVERYTHING, crime and the traffic mess is
NEVER mentioned.
There are places in L.A. I wouldn’t drive through in an Abrams in broad daylight !
They must 1) be REAL short on ‘tourist’ dollars, 2) think NO ONE outside
of Ca. has ever been to L.A. before and 3) anyone who has never been to L.A.
would sell their soul just to LIVE in Ca., specifically in L.A
No thanks.
This is utter BS.
I lived in and around Seattle from the mid-90’s through 2011, and worked downtown for a good portion of that. Seattle was a much “cooler” in the 90’s than it is now, not to mention cleaner and safer. I used to love going to downtown Seattle and wandering around. Screw that, now I don’t go unless I’m forced to.
My company has an annual Management Meeting in December. We fly all of the senior management to one spot for the yearly recap and forecast stuff, two days of meetings and really good meals in the evenings. We’ve been doing it in downtown Seattle for going over a decade. This year, we moved it across the lake to Bellevue because Seattle absolutely sucks and nobody wanted to go there.
I’m so glad I moved away from Seattle, every time I pass through (on a pretty regular basis) I just get depressed looking around at how bad it is.
I think your sentiments apply to most any major American City. I’m from Baltimore, and when I look at it now on Google Earth street view, I rage at what the black Democrats have done to it.
I grew up there in the 40’s – 60’s, and it was a great city, with wonderful architecture, great food and friendly people, so much so, that at only ten and eleven years old I and my friends wandered all over the city, without fear, by bicycle and public transportation.
My ancestors lived there since 1819 and maybe earlier, and now when I see all the vacant lots overgrown with weeds where houses used to be, street after street littered with trash, old mattresses and soiled, overstuffed stuffed chairs in the gutters and on the sidewalks, mom & pop stores I shopped in gone, the burned out, boarded up, rotting, sometimes roofless old brick houses my family of masons, carpenters, tinners, foundrymen, stonecutters, plasterers and plumbers built and lived in for six generations and more, I can only weep, but deep inside I want to break western on the worthless turds now in charge.
It’s fucking tragic. I was at the University of Washington 87-92. The U District was quirky. Now, it’s dingy.
Downtown used to be a nice place to go for shopping or dining. Now, I’m in Renton and actively avoid going into Seattle. What they’ve done to a lovely city is criminal. Can’t wait to retire and move to South Dakota…
I used to like visiting a local city from time to time but now most interesting stores are gone. The great bookstore I used to love as a kid has moved into a smaller building. the shops in the city are largely gone that sold new and used records. The shopping area has been replaced largely with “upscale” apartments or condominiums. The regional department stores were both eventually bought by Macy’s who eventually pulled out of the shopping district in the city which is too bad.
LA, Seattle, San Francisco, Detroit, and other cities are even worse.
JQ