I know you guys 'hate transplants...' but I'm moving your way next week! (Seattle: living, small town)

[angelenogirl]

Originally Posted by mkarch

There are 2 types of translplants people here hate. Those that moved here with little research based on some romanticized notion/fantasy created by the media, and Californians.

DC transplants are kind of novel. When people hear we moved from Virginia they assume I was in the military. They get a puzzled look when I explain we lived in the DC suburbs.

So you're intolerant of entire groups of people based purely on accident of birth? Got it. Too bad I'm not from DC, I guess.

I'll never understand why some people have a problem with others who love and cherish their city. I wanted to come here and contribute to this great place, and hopefully I am.

If you have a world class city, a fantastic city, people from everywhere will want to live in it. Growing up in California, I saw people from all walks of life flock to my city and state, and I never learned to hate those people. So is that hatred just taught here at a young age? I just want to make sure to shield my own children from it.

[Seacove]

Honestly, the only comments I've seen/heard against Californians is here on CD. We have employees moving back and forth all the time and it's never even mentioned. A lot of Californians love WA and I'd rather have someone like that here any day.

[angelenogirl]

Good to know, Seacove, thanks. I get kinda scared to tell people where I'm from! I hope it is just a CD thing, because I'm actually here because I want to be, and I really do love it.

[mkarch]

Originally Posted by angelenogirl

So you're intolerant of entire groups of people based purely on accident of birth? Got it. Too bad I'm not from DC, I guess.

I'll never understand why some people have a problem with others who love and cherish their city. I wanted to come here and contribute to this great place, and hopefully I am.

If you have a world class city, a fantastic city, people from everywhere will want to live in it. Growing up in California, I saw people from all walks of life flock to my city and state, and I never learned to hate those people. So is that hatred just taught here at a young age? I just want to make sure to shield my own children from it.

It's more of a long running joke at this point. There was a segment on almost live where they listed off characteristics of true Seattleites. One of them was "Doesn't just remember the mass invasion of Californians in the late 80's, but still has a head on a pike in their font yard"

[dc_tiger]

Originally Posted by Seacove

Honestly, the only comments I've seen/heard against Californians is here on CD. We have employees moving back and forth all the time and it's never even mentioned. A lot of Californians love WA and I'd rather have someone like that here any day.

I take it you haven't spent a whole lot of time on /r/seattle

Those folks haaaaaate the Californians. Even the seemingly recent transplants. I don't really get it.

[PollyGlott]

Originally Posted by dc_tiger

I take it you haven't spent a whole lot of time on /r/seattle
Those folks haaaaaate the Californians. Even the seemingly recent transplants. I don't really get it.

Well, FWIW, real folks (the live ones you actually meet and/or talk to) don't seem fazed by where people come from AT ALL. I've never had a single negative reaction to being from CA from anyone.

[Adrian71]

Originally Posted by mkarch

There are 2 types of translplants people here hate. Those that moved here with little research based on some romanticized notion/fantasy created by the media, and Californians.

DC transplants are kind of novel. When people hear we moved from Virginia they assume I was in the military. They get a puzzled look when I explain we lived in the DC suburbs.

You'd be surprised at how many of us fled here from D.C. (we were in Alexandria). Not a month goes by when I don't see someone on this forum saying they've either moved here from D.C., or they're thinking of doing so. It surprises me only because there's such a pronounced difference between the two places, in terms of climate, culture, attitudes, people, you name it. D.C. is rude, impatient, crowded, and in your face, where this area is much more mellow and non-aggressive. I guess it seems like a great place if you want to get out of the East Coast rat race (which we did).

Can't speak much to your claim about two types of transplants. We came here for the first time in the middle of a sunny, beautiful summer, but we also knew about the nine months of clouds and rain. I did tons of research, though I imagine a lot of people do get swept up in the fantasy of Seattle as some kind of Green Paradise. I love it here, and it's everything I expected it to be, but I can see how some people would get here, look out their window on a cold February morning, see it raining sideways for the fifth day in a row, and think, "I didn't sign up for this."

[Hemlock140]

People on forums hating Californian transplants (or anything else for that matter) is not reason to generalize that all feel the same way. It was the natives in the 80s that objected because they brought big equity and drove up home prices. By the early 90s that died down but by 2000 the natives were so outnumbered by immigrants that it became a non-issue except for a few vocal diehards. On our street of the neighbors we have met 6 families are from CA, two from Texas and one from Arizona. I don't know anyone who is from here, except one co-worker and he is from Moses Lake.

[SabrinaAne]

Lol...I had to chime in on this one because, for a while, we were planning a move to Portland. I hung out on the portland forum for a while. Wow! Talk about actively discouraging people from moving somewhere! I was stunned at how down-right aggressive many of the Portland posters were about not relocating to their fair city. Woe to the person posting that they were thinking about moving there or asking about jobs! Sheesh! When our relo shifted to Seattle, I switched boards. The first time I looked at a thread somebody posted about looking for a job in Seattle I expected to find the same kind of discouraging talk, particularly given how fond many Portland posters are of trashing Seattlites and bringing up the Seattle Freeze. Boy oh boy was I in for a pleasant surprise. Seattle posters actually responded with HELPFUL information. Time and again, as I read through the posts on this board, I am struck by the stark contrast between how a Portlander would have responded and how a Seattlite did respond. The difference really made me glad that we are moving to the Seattle area instead of the Portland area.

[Adrian71]

We were focused on Portland before we shifted to Seattle as well. Portlanders, in my limited experience, are very provincial. I also think some of them have an inferiority complex when it comes to Seattle. Portland never impressed me, nor did its people. It's like a wannabe Seattle.