For those who have left/are planning to leave Seattle: What prompted your decision?
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Originally Posted by skidamarink
1. Lack of available jobs in my field (I'm not in IT) combined with tight competition due to the highly skilled transplants that tend to move here.
2. Boring social scene. I realized upon living here that I do NOT like reserved, aloof people who don't know how to smile. I used to think I was an introvert, but I still enjoyed meeting new people and I still knew how to carry on a conversation. Great city for a hipster, LGBT person, or a socially inept nerd but not for me.
3. I personally think Seattle is not as cosmopolitan or diverse as other large cities. The sense of diversity here doesn't go far beyond a visible population of northern European whites, unassimilated refugees from Southeast Asia or Ethiopia who keep to themselves, some wealthy Asians here and there, and the LGBT community. And these groups self-segregate way more than what you see in other cities. I'm white but I desire more diversity than this.
The rising cost of living doesn't make any of this worth it to live here. I'm leaving next month.
2. Boring social scene. I realized upon living here that I do NOT like reserved, aloof people who don't know how to smile. I used to think I was an introvert, but I still enjoyed meeting new people and I still knew how to carry on a conversation. Great city for a hipster, LGBT person, or a socially inept nerd but not for me.
3. I personally think Seattle is not as cosmopolitan or diverse as other large cities. The sense of diversity here doesn't go far beyond a visible population of northern European whites, unassimilated refugees from Southeast Asia or Ethiopia who keep to themselves, some wealthy Asians here and there, and the LGBT community. And these groups self-segregate way more than what you see in other cities. I'm white but I desire more diversity than this.
The rising cost of living doesn't make any of this worth it to live here. I'm leaving next month.
I am reserved, aloof, and smile at no one I don't like. I am certainly a nerd, highly socially-adept, but truly do...not...care what others think if they insist on marching into my space uninvited.
Diversity for its own sake is meaningless. We are stratified, not on race, but on socioeconomic status and intelligence. I am a northern European White. Was having a chuckle this evening with my African American and American Indian professional peers prior to leaving the office. No one cares about any of that: irrelevant as long as we delivery top-quality product. We sure do self-segregate: people with good incomes can afford to live on the Eastside, South Lake Union, other places with a good overall standard of living. No one in my peer group is interested in living in a ghetto based on the chimeric idea that somehow that alone will lead to greater "enlightenment." Most believing otherwise have not even begun to be enlightened.
I was born to live here. Thus, not surprisingly, here I am: nothing happens to a man he is not fitted by nature to bear. Anyone has a problem with the place, well: adios!
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