tigeress... please print out your posts in this thread... especially your long rant about Seattle and smog and such... and file them away. Take them out in 5 years and read them - and I guarantee you will be appalled... or maybe laugh your head off at the somewhat sanctimonious comments, the sneering, the generalizations... and so on.
Lastly, with regards to Seattle...it is quite smoggy, atleast compared with all the places I've been to and the place I live in. You also must know that prior to being in Seattle we were up in the cascade mountain areas in little towns in the middle of nowhere for a week. The air there was perfect and then coming to Seattle I noticed the change in air right away...like always. I live in an area with very little air polution, good airflow etc so I'm used to nice air. I don't know as though the smog was worse or better than Vancouver's smog problem but it was deffinetly noticeable.
There was probably an inversion. That happens in big cities
everywhere. Seattle - being on the coast, usually gets the air currents off the Sound that keeps things pretty clear. But no big city is immune to that particular problem.
I was also annoyed while we were leaving because it's so peaceful where I am, even in the cities nearby but the minute I stepped out of the car in Seattle all I could hear were cars driving around and honking.
OMG!! Traffic noises in the city!! Who'da thunk it! Traffic noise happens in every city. Even in Calgary. I should know - I have been stuck in traffic there enough. I am curious as to what you expected to hear...
*puzzled*
Another reason I was annoyed while leaving was due to the fact that the Seattle Aquarium was a very depressing place to go to...Many (not all) of the exibits were very poorly made, they were simple concrete cages with nothing but animal excrement in them...it was very disheartening
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The Seattle Aquarium downtown is old but undergoing renovations. I have NEVER seen piles of "animal excrement" on display... perhaps they were about to clean those areas when you were there....
I did things like that in Seattle and got very nasty looks as if smileing and saying "thank-you, please, sorry" etc is a forgien language! I don't think it's a beautiful city, and I find it a very irritating place to be BUT I will likely go back because they have fab shopping and I didn't go look around the whole city.
When you make shallow comments (and yes they are) like that ^^^ , you do yourself no favours.
Thank you, please etc. is not a foreign language here... far from it. Of course, if you met a couple of folks who were not what you wanted them to be - that applies to everyone in an entire area. The only city I have been to that approaches beautiful (but again, not all of it) is Vancouver.
So you hated the Aquarium. Did you go to the VERY nice Woodland Park Zoo? I doubt it. The EMP? Stroll through Pike Place Market or Fremont on a Saturday afternoon? Check out the houseboats on Lake Union? Visit Seattle Center when a big festival like Bumbershoot is on??
Probably not. Yet you feel you have the "experience" to slap labels on places and people...
If anything Seattleiites are known to be disgustingly nice, polite and PC to the hilt compared to most major cities in the US.
Triggy is right about this. In fact, Seattle is often criticized for being too PC, too polite, too laid back and not being "New York" enough... guess the coffeee does not affect us...
tigeress - you hated London?? Wow... I am sorry that the history all around you and the people did not have any impact on you whatsoever...
But then, it's all about the shopping.
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I am not being harsh with you -
you started this thread which was guaranteed to rile some people up - and then proceeded to lapse into sweeping generalizations and condemnations... and be exactly what you were complaining about. And youth is no excuse...
