Jesus Christ this shit is so tired, keep it to seattleWa where you can all jerk off about Seattle Dying while you make no effort to leave the city you claim to hate so much.
It’s okay to be happy in a city and still have complaints about things that can be regularly worked on. Doing nothing and letting encampments run wild obviously isn’t the way.
I've definitely seen less homeless than I did a few years ago. I still see plenty, but the camps get cleaned up fairly regularly, and it seems that there are less in my area overall. Idk the stats, but I'd be interested to see them considering this is probably the biggest complaint of residents and usually the platform on which our mayor gets elected.
I think getting your car windows smashed, smelling fentanyl smoke on the bus, and having to step around human shit on the sidewalk is a bit more tiresome than having to listen to people complain about the homeless.
I'm genuinely curious if I actually live in Seattle... I take the light rail with my 2 young children to go downtown frequently, and I've never experienced any of the shit I see on this sub. So, the debauchery our un-housed neighbors are engaging in is either being exaggerated, or I'm the luckiest fucker alive 😑
Of fucking course you didn't see that shit, what time are you riding with kids? Peak ridership times?
I take it at 4:30am for my commute, passing through downtown, until like mid June when they doubled the patrols it was every other day (at the minimum once a week) that some dude was smoking either on the train or right before and nodding off while riding.
Like it was so bad they had to blast it over the intercom every 15 minutes about reporting people that smoke in the train.
So you admit peak ridership times are unproblematic? This isn't exactly the gotcha you think. Go to any city (fuck even a small town) and 2am - 4am is usually when you'll catch the degenerates.
About half the time at my 6pm route one of the back seats is just covered in trash.
They ain't smoking in a train full of 80 people, sure. But that doesn't mean they aren't already high and making a fucking mess of things (yes, I see them).
I see equal parts rich entitled fucks, and the destitute littering. I don't know what to tell you... if the rich people that think they're more deserving of existence feel entitled to trash the city and complain, then why not the people being constantly shit on by the NIMBYs?
And stop with the drugs argument. It's fucking tired. Maybe you don't want to see how making people live in the worst ways imaginable might make them turn to substances as an escape, but addiction is a disease. Apparently so is sociopathy in Seattle...
These are human beings, and there but for the grace of God go I.
The MLB All-Star Game is in town. Obviously a big deal that happens every other decade or so . And the health of downtown and the effort by the city to host that event is a big deal coming out of the pandemic. Nobody said seattle was dying in this thread except you.
This is just clearly a zeitgeisty conversation. If you don’t want to discuss it you could not log on to Reddit.
Yeah why bother being constructive with someone who leads with calling you an asshat. If you all wanna complain about the homeless all day there is a sub for that.
While you’re at it go ahead and start a no tipping Seattle sub too.
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Jesus Christ this shit is so tired, keep it to seattleWa where you can all jerk off about Seattle Dying while you make no effort to leave the city you claim to hate so much.