BluesLegend
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Breaking news today, Washington DC crime out of control, dozens of businesses closed, violent crime up 39% since 2022. MinTrut's propaganda thread just got bitch slapped.
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Seattle is magnificent, thriving, safe.Not just Seattle. Has spread up and down the Puget urban and suburban corridor from about Olympia to the Canadian border.
A 100% lie. I live here, this clown is trolling.Seattle is magnificent, thriving, safe.
The topic has greater scope than you realize or understand.You're not responding to the topic.
Are you unable to do so?
The threads content and extrapolations are beyond your mental grasp.So you have no reasonable reply to the thread's content.
Parts of it are, parts of it aren't.Seattle is magnificent, thriving, safe.
Why are so many conservatives invested in denying this reality?
I can't get an answer, but just a repetition of the falsehoods.
Why is this?
They don't want to talk about what's happening in small townsBecause they are liars.
Seattle is a gorgeous, safe city with incredibly high housing demand, but as almost everywhere, a slowing sales market due to mortgage rates.
EXCERPT:
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Buying into the expensive Seattle housing market has been a daunting proposition for many years, but, when mortgage interest rates were down in the 2% to 3% range, a person could take a deep breath and boldly leap into debt. Not so much today.
The COVID-19 pandemic drove up inflation to scary levels and the Federal Reserve responded by jacking up interest rates well past 7%. As a result, fewer home buyers could afford to buy and fewer sellers were motivated to sell, knowing they’d be taking on that high interest burden on their next home.
Right now, the Seattle-area market is running cold. The number of houses with “for sale” signs in the yard has taken a major dip, even as prices continue to rise. The median single-family home in King County sold for $885,500 in November, an increase of 7% from a year earlier, while new listings were down by 11% in the same time period.
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Even Santa can’t help Seattle house hunters | Horsey cartoon
Don't count on finding a set of new house keys in your stocking this Christmas.www.seattletimes.com
BTW, Horsey isn't fully on target here. The FED is only a small part of the equation. Market prices driven by regressive Left-leaning policies and Guv'mint in the city to state realm is the main cause of the PNW becoming unaffordable for any other than the upper-upper-"middle class" and above.
Well, I did encounter a dead rat...Bullshit !!!
I'm thinking about it, yes.Try living here in the PNW for a year or more.
Are you a licensed real estate broker or financial planner?Start with buying a home (not renting a condo) in the greater Seattle Metro area.
Are you the boss of me?Get back to me/us then.
Great!I've lived in the PNW and so have my family for decades (70+ years for me).
True that - the beauty and safety and incredible job market are great draws.This area is unreasonably expensive compared to the rest of the nation
Naw - it's supply and demand.and much is due to the regressive and Leftist politics and leadership that is trashing the affordability and livability of this area.
Affordable housing is a big issue everywhere, but the Great Boomer Die-Off is already underway, so relief is coming!Especially for the under forty generation and new families.
Fallacious/irrelevant.You are full of crap!
Did that.One only needs to start by driving I-5 through the heart of Seattle, North or South bound, to see the homeless encampments along the edges of that interstate freeway in the core of the city.
Thank you!PM me next time you are in this area and I'll give you the real tour of our area/city and drop you off some place "real safe" and full of "positivity" about midnight and leave you there until dawn.
We lived there and moved away, won’t live there anywhere near there again. Our company wanted me to take a promotion and work at the home office in Seattle and I turned it down. Crime, drugs, and homeless were all factored in to the decision. Some people like it, I don’t, just speaking for myself.You are full of crap!
One only needs to start by driving I-5 through the heart of Seattle, North or South bound, to see the homeless encampments along the edges of that interstate freeway in the core of the city.
PM me next time you are in this area and I'll give you the real tour of our area/city and drop you off some place "real safe" and full of "positivity" about midnight and leave you there until dawn.
Seattle is just one example of a Blue city so successful that you're astonished by the disparity between its safety/beauty on the one hand, and the bizarre apocalyptic narratives attached to it by conservatives on the other:
Seattle is a victim of its own success | Horsey cartoon
This once middle-class town is getting too expensive for the middle class.www.seattletimes.com
But Seattle's not alone in the reality/false narrative gap; both New York City and Los Angeles rank among the 20 greatest cities in the world in a recent Conde Nast survey:
These are officially the best cities in the world for 2023 â and Dubai is up there
In fact, there's only one city that ranks higherwww.cntravellerme.com
I mention Seattle only because a recent visit there revealed an amazing, safe, thriving city whose biggest problem - as with many US cities - is affordable housing due to the influx of newcomers clamoring for its emerald beauty.
So what gives?
Part of the explanation may be that conservatives are so hungry for a return to power that they seem unable to refrain from saying whatever it takes to sell a less than truthful narrative regarding our greatest cities in particular, and our country in general.
But there may be a deeper cause, as explored in this article:
The science behind why conservatives are so easily triggered
Curiously, it is the same reason why they are best equipped for the meme warswww.salon.com
What is the cost - to both conservatives and those exposed to their false narratives - of insisting on apocalyptic myths of societal decay contrary to the reality of blossoming urban areas?
What can be done to turn away these troubling false narratives and embrace the beautiful truth?
Surely some conservatives are not honest, but the cause may be deeper, and may define conservatism in some regards.“Why are conservatives embracing false narratives of urban decline…”
Because conservatives are for the most part dishonest and liars.
“…what can be done to encourage embracing social/political reality?”
Confronting conservatives with their dishonesty and lies.
^ Straw man.so you visited there and that makes you an expert on the city?
It was an extensive visit, but why do you think conservatives embrace false narratives about decay in the face of blossoming?.....did you go to the poor side of town in that visit?
Amazing..........what about the quality of life there?
Being poor can be awful anywhere......so the rich are going good,what about everyone else?...
Some good points.Cities in America are undergoing gentrification. Those conservatives kids are living in apartments in those gentrified areas, while going to college, and after for easier commutes to their jobs, where public transportation is available, and bicycle, and EV commutes are more affordable.
You know where those kids aren't going?
Back to the rural country, where there is no opportunity, or availability. Those areas are exclusively relegated to the tired old bastard society. And kids today don't give a rats ass about hunting, fishing, or farming. And as the tired old bastards die off, their land is being sold to developers, when the kids inherit it.
You are full of crap!
One only needs to start by driving I-5 through the heart of Seattle, North or South bound, to see the homeless encampments along the edges of that interstate freeway in the core of the city.
PM me next time you are in this area and I'll give you the real tour of our area/city and drop you off some place "real safe" and full of "positivity" about midnight and leave you there until dawn.
Seattle is just one example of a Blue city so successful that you're astonished by the disparity between its safety/beauty on the one hand, and the bizarre apocalyptic narratives attached to it by conservatives on the other:
Seattle is a victim of its own success | Horsey cartoon
This once middle-class town is getting too expensive for the middle class.www.seattletimes.com
But Seattle's not alone in the reality/false narrative gap; both New York City and Los Angeles rank among the 20 greatest cities in the world in a recent Conde Nast survey:
These are officially the best cities in the world for 2023 â and Dubai is up there
In fact, there's only one city that ranks higherwww.cntravellerme.com
I mention Seattle only because a recent visit there revealed an amazing, safe, thriving city whose biggest problem - as with many US cities - is affordable housing due to the influx of newcomers clamoring for its emerald beauty.
So what gives?
Part of the explanation may be that conservatives are so hungry for a return to power that they seem unable to refrain from saying whatever it takes to sell a less than truthful narrative regarding our greatest cities in particular, and our country in general.
But there may be a deeper cause, as explored in this article:
The science behind why conservatives are so easily triggered
Curiously, it is the same reason why they are best equipped for the meme warswww.salon.com
What is the cost - to both conservatives and those exposed to their false narratives - of insisting on apocalyptic myths of societal decay contrary to the reality of blossoming urban areas?
What can be done to turn away these troubling false narratives and embrace the beautiful truth?
That's correct.
I toured alleged trouble spots, and found nothing but positivity.
Great city, like so many other Blue gems in the US.
Why do you think you're so invested in falsely claiming otherwise?