Pegged
18Feb2005 Filed under: ObservationsSummary of The Seattle Times: Pacific Northwest Magazine : Our Social Disease? We Seattleites are sort of socially retarded. Totally true!
You’ve just experienced the infamous Seattle Freeze. It’s the flip side of Seattle Nice. Welcome to Seattle . . . Now please go away.
Seattle’s long been described in contradictory terms. The weather: Is it mild or dreary or mildly dreary? The politics: Progressive yet torpid. Progressing toward torpor? The attitude: Tolerant — of all like-minded people.
But the dichotomy most fundamental to our collective civic character is this: Polite but distant. Have a nice day. Somewhere else.
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Hey there. I'm Ariel Meadow Stallings, a native Seattleite who's written my way up and down the Left Coast. Electrolicious is where I post daily randomata, but I also write for a living. My first book, Offbeat Bride, was published last year.
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Ariel v.
February 19th, 2005 at 11:24 am
Yes, it’s so true! I just had this weird experience last night that illustrates the point:
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.
Summer
March 3rd, 2005 at 5:02 pm
Let’s face it… SEATTLE SUCKS!!!!
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.