Seattle! How is it now? Are there jobs? Should I move there?

i got obsessed with manintree at 1:30 am and saw on periscope a drone, drunk people yelling at him, and a dude show up with a bb gun and get arrested

Light rail has been around for, like, 6 years! We just got another 5 miles and 2 stops added. Another 100 miles of track and we'll be on par with...every other major city, half a century ago.

how about this weather

Pretty common to have strong storms like these in November and December. October is a bit early, but not unheard of. It's just nasty when you lose power and there are fallen trees all over, but it's not like these are hurricanes or anything.

hellof leaves on trees still gives this another dimension
came into seatac today. buumpy! 3/4 of outgoing flights were delayed, never see that.
and yeah not hurricane but 50+ winds is no minor thing. love a storm prep when it's not too cold and the weekend get flashlights get blazed get hunkered

Lakes everywhere

Cafe Racer is up for sale. This city can be real depressing sometimes.

not sure why i started thinking about this last night but
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dRqteDXb3Yk

bonus: giant Marlboro ad

Welp

right?

ugh

https://thecisforcrank.com/2017/04/07/morning-crank-i-have-four-kids-and-a-wife/

ok then

http://www.thestranger.com/slog/2017/04/11/25069906/doctors-report-shows-mayor-ed-murray-does-not-have-a-mole-on-his-genitalia-as-accuser-claims

Every time I see a picture of Ed Murray I think of the meme of the dog who was terrified of cupcakes:
https://media1.fdncms.com/stranger/imager/u/original/25069910/1491952854-1491517862-1465827512-o-3825.jpg
http://i.ytimg.com/vi/4-6Gb4AzgUk/hqdefault.jpg

Why are there always 20,000 people who are willing to vote for Goodspaceguy?

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/08/09/opinion/smoke-heat-seattle-climate.html

This shit will leave tomorrow maybe? Walked out of the library this evening and felt my eyes burning. Really don't enjoy the sense that I'm endangering my health by biking to work.

My partner who is from San Diego assures me it could be much worse

It does suck majorly though, and I assume it will only get worse in years to come.

Lived in eastern WA for a decade until this summer, didn't know "fire season" was a thing and absolutely don't miss it.

a couple of years ago the smoke in vancouver was so bad for a few days in the summer that you could look directly at the sun in the sky at noon and the entire town smelled like a (gross) campfire. there also was a silty film all over the ground from where the ashes were lightly falling.

with climate change i really think that it will cease to be pleasant to live here soon enough

It's just ugly, it hasn't affected me physically. I bike 16-25 miles commuting to and from work every day and it hasn't been an issue. It's just ruining the joy I get from seeing those perfect blue skies and the mountains in the disatance.

Cafe Racer closing for good on Wednesday.

Racer was the place I told visitors and recent transplants to go to in Seattle, because it would unfailingly give you good vibes about the city. Whether or not the Seattle Freeze exists, people would talk to you there. And the people there endured one of the more horrifying events in recent local history, and had the strength to come back and reopen the place, and it's a real punch in the gut that it won't be around anymore.

fuuuuuuck Tim Eyman.

Washington State voters are like Sideshow Bob stepping on Tim's cunningly laid rakes.

hope this one goes down in the courts as well.

Kshama's gonna pull it out with late ballots though I feel it in my guts

Washington State voters are why I want the USA to reorganize into city-states

Wife and I got in one last Washington absentee vote before moving to AZ this month where our blue votes will count for so much more.

Given the deteriorating streets/roads around here, sad that people would be short-sighted on this one. Not to mention the dozen repeal/maintain advisory votes on the ballot that are also Eyman-related.

Seattle died last night.

shitty election

the local stuff gets a bit lost in the shuffle of the virus threads, but Tom Douglas just closed all his restaurants for the next couple months and laid off 800 employees with no severance pay.

Inslee has reached the Not Fucking Around stage, reportedly public schools in King, Pierce, and Snoho will be ordered closed until at least April 24

Closing the libraries for a month.

Now that there’s less ambiguity than there was a week ago on what the response here would be like, I’m fairly sanguine about how this will all go here in the next few months, at least healthwise. Wrenching for performance groups, will be fatal for an unknown number of restaurants.

Anyway to check in on the questions in the thread title, Seattle is fine tho anyone who has lived here even a little bit longer than I have could justifiably say it sucks now; there’s jobs of certain kinds and low unemployment but as a loathsome computer person my perspective on jobs is irrelevant; and you should move here bc the weather is perfect 400 days a year.

Your weather is crap

The whole west coast needs to grow a couple of seasons like a real biome

We have two seasons! Wet and dry.

Both are good.

The Stranger just laid off a bunch of staff, pausing print distribution.

literally every good reporter who worked there in my 7 years here is long gone at this point and transphobic asswipe K***e H****g is among the laid off and T*m K**k is a big ol piece of shit in general and I shed no tears for this institution

genuinely pleased K H is unemployed

JoeStork and I have a good friend who just got laid off by the Stranger today (not KH, obvs), so maybe cool it with the schadenfreude?

:/ I’m of course sorry for your friend’s circumstances in this troubled time.

Very hard not to take pleasure in KH’s tbh, I’m p vindictive on this score. Though of course she’ll probably end up coming out ahead on the terf lecture circuit. Assuming that’s a thing.

I’m sure she’ll score a gig at Quillette or the Atlantic or something. The Stranger still had some good arts writers and if it goes completely under a big source of promotion for local music/film/art disappears.

anyway sorry, really, for being so blasé about people who are not KH losing their jobs, obviously justice would've been better served by her being fired for being bad

not sure if there’s a more active all-purpose thread about Seattle (there’s about 20,000 user-specific FAP threads in the archives and i didn’t want to create another one) so sorry if this isn’t the best place to ask this BUT:

i will be coming up to Seattle in a couple weeks (the 20th through the 24th). it is my second time visiting, but my first time was for a conference and i didn’t get to do much exploring then. anything fun/cool going on around that time? shows, events, exhibitions, etc? any particular restaurants/food that i absolutely must try? good record stores? ftr i am staying downtown and will not have access to a car.