” I just don’t get it.”
Neither do I. I left Seattle in the mid-80’s. If I go thru there today (and I don’t if I can help it) all I see is highrises and traffic jams. The house I bought for 25K in 1975 had a for sale sign on it - priced at a low 400K. Oh, and the whole place is now governed by commie/socialists.
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>> “Oh, and the whole place is now governed by commie/socialists.” <<
And when was it not?
Seattle was palpably Marxist in 1960.
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It’s a wonderful place to live, if you can ignore that commies and perverts of every bizarre sexual fetish.