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Seattle-ERA!

SpartyCrunch

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Stinkles said:
Book brunch at the Space Needle - expensive but worth it and you get VIP access to lifts and observation deck and the food and bloody marys are great. Try a seaplane tour of the region, can be pretty bargain priced for what you get. Rent a kayak from Agua Verde and paddle around the houseboats, then have tacos and margaritas at the restaurant when you come back. Go to the Museums (Asian, modern art, pop culture etc). Go check out the Amazon biosphere building thingy. See if you can get a tour of it.
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Yes, this is my go-to recommendation, especially when the weather is nice during the summer!

Agua Verde also has some amazing homemade biscuits if you want to get one of those early in the morning before the main restaurant opens. Good way to avoid the crowds too. So my go-to plan is to book brunch at Portage Bay Cafe in U District instead, grab a biscuit at Agua Verde before kayaking, then walk to Portage Bay from Agua Verde after.
 
bjork

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Oct 27, 2017
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My dad was just up visiting for a few days. His desired targets were pretty easy:
Bruce Lee's grave
Jimi Hendrix's grave/monument
Jimi Hendrix statue on broadway
"the men throwing the fish"
Then I ran him by the Fremont troll and we just kind of hung out and drove around the rest of the time. It was good to see that dude. I could see him retiring in Kent or something and that would be just fine with me.
 
Le-mo

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Hey, fellow Seattelites. Over the weekend one of my friend's son was tragically gunned down at Martha Washington park. I started a gofundme with the approval of his family so if any of you would like to donate to the campaign I'd really appreciate it. Thank you so much.! https://www.gofundme.com/5n89anc
 
pantsattack

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fallingedge said:
Hello friends.

https://www.resetera.com/threads/heading-to-seattle-for-vacation-need-suggestions.48887/

Thread there but was pointed out to go here too. Want food places and bars for the night life. Looking forward to visiting your city!
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321 Battle is the local wrestling (punk and theater roots, they wrestled on a wooden bar stage for years) promotion. Every other Friday. They have FB and Twitter for information. Broadcasts on twitch if you're curious.
 
pantsattack

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I forgot to mention it to the thread, you inspired me to check out pinball places so I went to Flip Flip Ding Ding in Georgetown. Most everything I saw was 50 cents except one and they had a ton of good stuff. Star Trek TNG, Addam's Family, Pub Champion, Earthshaker, Black Knight 2000, Haunted House, Starship Troopers, Walking Dead, Robocop, Roller Coaster Tycoon, and on. A couple beers and a roll of quarters was a great time. Awful food selection (snack size chips, tiny packaged cookies) made better by grabbing a Ruben and fries down the street. Friday there is an amazing food and chips food truck outside Machine House. I'll have to combine those two things next time. There was also a pinball tournament that night so there was a good crowd with some skills to play the games the right way. I recommend it for sure.
 
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Trouble

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I was at the Brew fest yesterday and we were roasting. The sun was blazing with no breeze to speak of. Got a couple fans going when I got home and was just glad to be out of the sun.
 
True Underdog

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Someone broke into my building's laundry room today and busted open the change machine inside.

Building management said it's not being replaced. ;-;
 
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cdyhybrid

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Anyone know of a passable portable air conditioner that I don't have to window mount? I live in a small studio and don't have an actual window to mount an A/C in, I just have a sliding glass door in front of a sliding screen door.
 
Distantmantra

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cdyhybrid said:
Anyone know of a passable portable air conditioner that I don't have to window mount? I live in a small studio and don't have an actual window to mount an A/C in, I just have a sliding glass door in front of a sliding screen door.
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Nope. We've got two Delonghi units from Costco that require the venting hoses to be propped up in a sliding window. Maybe you could rig it up to somehow be tall enough for the sliding door frame.
 

Cybit

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Amazing quote I saw in the Atlantic

https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2018/07/nextdoor-american-communities/561746/

Takahashi echoes Wymer on noise complaints—talk of fireworks or gunshots (they are rarely actual gunshots) is common, she says. Sometimes these complaints have dramatic consequences. In Seattle, a post about a dog's bad reaction to some kind of cannon that was sounded during Seahawks football games led to an online dispute, and a neighborhood meeting at a library to talk it out erupted into a brawl. "Seattle is like the Florida of Nextdoor," Takahashi told me, referring to the Sunshine State's tendency to surface all manner of improbable events. Los Angeles is another source of good material: She's received a handful of submissions about unrest in parts of the city where YouTube stars live, as fans mob the streets trying to catch a glimpse.
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SpartyCrunch

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Pride Festival in Capitol Hill yesterday was excellent! My wife and I walked all up and down Broadway, through Cal Anderson park all the way up to Roy St., to Frankie & Jo's, great day.

Didn't make Pride today but this weekend is always so much fun!
 
Distantmantra

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What happens when you look at just King County? I feel like Snohomish probably skews the numbers more positively.

The house next to mine is currently available for rent. Only $1,200 more than my mortgage! SMH
 
Distantmantra

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I'm all for density, but I'm also for preserving some single family neighborhoods.

Build around the stations, transit lines and urban villages, don't just nuke neighborhoods like Wallingford, Crown Hill and Sand Point because it makes you feel better.
 
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leder

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Tripling residential density with upzones will also reduce the number of starter houses to buy as they're snapped up by developers. This shrinks opportunities to achieve true, long-term affordability with ownership.
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lol dude there aint no starter homes left.

Justification for radically altering Seattle neighborhoods is evaporating. A surge of housing construction in recent years created a rental glut, with about 5,000 new units vacant regionally and 26 percent of downtown Seattle apartments empty.
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So upzoning is working?

This comes as Washington's population growth rate slows, according to new state data. Seattle's comp plan says it already has plenty of capacity under current zoning to accommodate forecast growth through 2035.
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*clicks on link*
*sees title of study is "Strong population growth in Washington continues"*
...Alright then.


So why jam this through? Is there institutional bias against the lifestyle of those living in houses?
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Give me a fucking break...



Times editiorial board has always been trash. It pains me that I still subscribe to this paper, but having no paper reporting on city hall at all would be worse than having this garbo one unfortunately.
 
cdyhybrid

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leder said:
lol dude there aint no starter homes left.


So upzoning is working?



*clicks on link*
*sees title of study is "Strong population growth in Washington continues"*
...Alright then.



Give me a fucking break...



Times editiorial board has always been trash. It pains me that I still subscribe to this paper, but having no paper reporting on city hall at all would be worse than having this garbo one unfortunately.
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Their actual journalists/columnists seem pretty good at their jobs (aside from Geoff Baker), it's just the editorial board that has their head up their ass.
 
leder

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cdyhybrid said:
Their actual journalists/columnists seem pretty good at their jobs (aside from Geoff Baker), it's just the editorial board that has their head up their ass.
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Eh, disagree. Westneat is 50/50. The politics writers mostly fall back to "he said she said" bullshit, and have absolutely no teeth in their interviews. That one neckbeard dude (edit: Talton) who I'm totally blanking on is also awful. Pretty much everything else is syndicated columnists. Then the ST continuously embarrasses itself with godawful corporate puff pieces like https://www.seattletimes.com/busine...f-the-people-behind-seattles-tech-juggernaut/.
 
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SpartyCrunch

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I'm honestly baffled what some of these people want to happen.
  • They don't want more housing
  • They don't want more taxes even though state tax revenues are at recession-level lows
  • They don't want income taxes which only affect millionaires
  • They don't want a tax on hours worked which only affect successful companies because Amazon is going to leave the state or whatever
  • But they don't want more Amazon because it's changing the city too much??
  • They don't want more property taxes even though their houses are worth multiple times more now than they when they purchased them
  • They don't want more apartments because there's not enough parking
  • They don't want more light rail because there's not enough parking by light rail stations and even though traffic is getting worse every year
  • They don't want more rights for service workers or a higher minimum wage even though it's an overwhelming success that subverted all of the worst expectations
  • They don't want homeless people all over the place, but they don't want to fund shelters and mental health clinics

Just once I want to hear these people actually contribute some ideas which aren't trash instead of just saying no to everything like children.
 
leder

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It is completely absurd. The ideas I've heard from that crowd are things like "put all the street people in jail".
 
BreakyBoy

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Distantmantra said:
That's frightening.

I'm never selling my house.
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I literally just closed on a condo downtown last night. I got what feels like a pretty good deal considering the market and location, but it would have likely been 100k cheaper this time last year.

My biggest regret so far is not doing this last year when I originally planned to. My biggest concern is I don't understand how anyone working downtown, and not making a six-figure salary can afford to live anywhere reasonably close.

I'd be very much in favor of a state, or even city income tax, but that doesn't seem likely.
 
Distantmantra

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BreakyBoy said:
I literally just closed on a condo downtown last night. I got what feels like a pretty good deal considering the market and location, but it would have likely been 100k cheaper this time last year.

My biggest regret so far is not doing this last year when I originally planned to. My biggest concern is I don't understand how anyone working downtown, and not making a six-figure salary can afford to live anywhere reasonably close.
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We bought a 1932 brick Tudor in Green Lake back in 2007 at the height of the real estate market prior to the economic downturn. We thought we were crazy back then, but now we were just lucky. Our home's value continues to increase and I'm sure we'd have no problem selling, but then we'd have to try and successfully buy something else. It's really depressing seeing how much houses are now going for around us. The middle class is really getting pushed out of the city. It's crazy to think how much the people around us make that are just now purchasing on our block.

Fortunately I love our house and where we are. I've done a lot of work on the place and I'd be happy living here forever. Two and a half more years until Roosevelt station opens five minutes from us. That's gonna be awesome.
 
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