I find Seattle to be one of the most foul and distasteful places I've ever been...and I have been in some sorry places in my time...
Detroit?? I currently live across from Tacoma (rural bedroom area near Gig Harbor). Seattle may be distasteful politically, but an economic disaster area it is not (or not yet, at any rate). Not my cuppa, though. I hope to make a move to Texas in the next year or two.