A love letter to Seattle

[spitkitten]

Originally published at spitkitten dot com. You can comment here or there.

I was staring out the bus window this afternoon, staring harder than usual. I’d forgotten my earphones, so I was trying to drown out the cacophony of naked humanity-Seattle’s bus system can be, let’s politely say, gritty and colorful, especially on an unseasonably warm

Comments

[m_cobweb]

I've been here 13 years as of January 2010, and it's so strange to realize I've been here long enough to have history. Including Seattle history. And by choice, for the first time in my life.

[carolryles]

I loved visiting Seattle. The people, the bookstores, libraries, food and wild blackberries. It's a beautiful place for a home.

[ktsparrow]

Oh, Seattle. Those condos worry me, too. I dream that they'll be vacant for years and get squatted by the artists and troublemakers who got kicked out of Pioneer Square ten years ago.

[maudelynn]

They are slowly creeping up alki... and towards my neighbourhood, which makes me so sad as we are the greenest non park part of west seattle... for now...

[maudelynn]

You wanna go out into our weird city to the mourning market later? It could be mad fun. I can come pick you up xo

[rockstarbob]

I love this post and I love our city, too.

[photosexual]

I've been living in the city or just north of it for 44 years now. Seen a lot of changes. But lately they're the worst. The crash after the fame (mid-90's coffee/grunge) and nobody knows what to do with themselves after the taste of it, and all the tourists came scrambling here to provoke these multi-million dollar condos, and some bought them, but once they take a look at the vacancies and the slide that it's causing, I'm hoping they move to greener pastures to let the city settle back into itself, and who it used to be, or who it can be now. The past decade has been an odd one for me in observation of city growth and change, but it's grating on me hard compared to the good things here.