The people here are unfriendly, socially-incompetent, shallow, uninteresting and just all around lame.

A shame, because the fact that Americans are generally very genuinely open and friendly is by far their most becoming trait. Unfortunately Seattleites have cashed in their chips in that respect, and all its left are ugly Americans with lots of emotional baggage.

I went out to Chop Suey alone, ran into a friend there and talked for a while. He then introduced me to several of his friends, who greeted me very warmly and entered into fairly detailed conversations with me. But every time I walked past them them rest of the night they wouldn’t acknowledge my nod/smile… it was like the conversations hadn’t happened! I’ve been noticing varying degrees of the greet-and-fuck-off pretty much every time I go out.