I live in NY State. It has become two completely different worlds between NY City and Upstate in politics, society and economics.
NY City and its politics dominate the State, which means high taxes, wokeism and ridiculous marxist mandates hobble upstate, while the City and downstate survive only on printed, fiat money, financial trading and debt.
Anything that diminishes the power of the Democrat money-power machine is a good thing.
Seattle is the same. The 3 counties that surround Puget Sound (King, Pierce & Snohomish) basically run the State due to population numbers.
When my husband & I moved to this State 43 years ago, it was a beautiful place. We could walk around Seattle at night and not feel at all unsafe. Now, I wouldn't go there during the day. It is a sin what the Left has done to this beautiful place. Homeless all over the sidewalks and parks (that are paid for by the tax revenues from the citizens who can no longer use the parks).