Posted on 10/09/2019 12:16:49 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
I hear you. Hubby and I moved to Seattle in the early 1980's. We went to do something downtown soon after we had moved there. It was at night and both of us commented that we felt very safe walking there at night. No longer. I have no desire to go there even during the day.
Hubby works downtown and he knows firsthand the problems down there with the "homeless". He told me that several years ago, when he was walking to work, he had to step over 5 men sleeping on the sidewalk in his short walk to work. That was when it hit him that something was terribly wrong.
Keep voting for the misanthropic Rats as they continue to gnaw at the foundations of our civil society.
Having lived in a 3rd-world country, that’s how I did my grocery shopping.
Walk up to a counter which 99% of the time was at the storefront sidewalk or just inside a vestibule. Tell the shop owner what you wanted and if there was more than one brand of a product, they’d show them to you. Rinse and repeat until you got everything you needed.
It was extremely inefficient and slow and it looks like that’s where we’re headed. I’ve noticed more and more shops like this in Seattle and Portland. The homeless have made many businesses put everything in locked display cases or only empty packages are out and you carry the empty package to the cashier. Weird stuff.
I live in a county that is now majority minority (45% white, 50% hispanic, 5% asian and black). Our two local Walmarts have recently isolated the makeup where you cannot leave the makeup area with product without paying right there. One store removed self-checkout. We were in that store two Saturdays ago and we must have been the only white people in the whole place. My wife commented that there were hundreds of single migrant men...no wives, no children, just hundreds wandering around in groups of 3-5 men.
According to the latest census, almost every town in one 60 mile stretch along the freeway is 95% hispanic.
But the ones who need to learn the lesson are other liberals. And they're just too obtuse and lazy.
We were downtown Portland earlier this year going to Powell’s Books and a small group of homeless had their belongings on a city curb and had attached a tarp from the curb to the adjacent building, creating a sort of cave. There was plenty of room to walk through the tunnel on the sidewalk but you would be surrounded by homeless and their things. Every passerby (including ourselves) walked out onto the street to avoid going through the cave. While we passed, one of the homeless loudly proclaimed, “You can walk on the sidewalk!”
Yeah right, like any vigilant person would do that...
People get the kind of government the deserve, and vice versa.
Fill your hands and prepare to defend yourselves.
Seattle isn’t nice. In fact, I’ve lived all over the country, and the most entitled, arrogant, rudest people in the country are in Seattle, WA.
Period.
This place is evil. Beautiful country, but the people here are for the most part evil.
Not really. I'm quite sure that that would be one crime they would prosecute to the fullest extent of the law.
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