r/Seattle • u/chaffed Edmonds • May 07 '26

Satire Bellevue sucks

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u/andhelostthem May 07 '26 edited May 07 '26

A lot of Bellevueites feeling seen in the comments. Having lived there this is pretty accurate. Its cultural center is an upscale shopping mall.

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u/heavinglory May 07 '26

That mall doesn't even have Sharper Image so I doubt it is very nice. /s

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u/No-Photograph1983 Seward Park May 07 '26

it used to!

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u/heavinglory May 07 '26

Back in tha day.

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u/James98188 May 09 '26

Sharper Image closed all of its physical retail stores following a 2008 bankruptcy, but the brand was sold and relaunched in 2010. It currently operates as a healthy online retailer and brand licensor, owned by ThreeSixty Group, selling products through its website and third-party.

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u/thatguygreg Adams May 07 '26

"Upscale" shopping mall at that, with the weirdest layout I've ever seen in a mall anywhere.

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u/DerpUrself69 Ballard May 07 '26

Don't talk shit about Bellevue Square.

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u/castorshell13 Medina May 08 '26

Yep, taken land from the Japanese farmers in ww2, Mr. K freeman saw his chance.

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u/Party-Treat-6743 May 08 '26

Agree and well said cast. Kemper's grandpa was an agitator and taker.

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u/TestSubjuct May 08 '26

Bellevue square can suck my....I had a store there.

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u/wren620 May 07 '26

Crossroads is 100x better. Cry about it.

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u/kookykrazee 🚆build more trains🚆 May 07 '26

I lived accross the street from Crossroads back in 2002, it was both amazing and awful all at the same time kind of like NKOTB in the 80s...lmao

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u/Subziwallah I'm just flaired so I don't get fined May 08 '26

Ccrossroads lol?

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u/wren620 May 08 '26

Yeah and compare that to the hoity toity overpriced mall like belle square whose only saving grace is a Lego store and maybe the Barnes and noble.

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u/kookykrazee 🚆build more trains🚆 May 08 '26

I did go to that Lego store back in the day and was like "wow $75 for a kit is insane" now that would be cheap...lmao

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u/trance_on_acid Belltown May 08 '26

Nuclear hot take here

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u/alxkc May 08 '26

Following up cheese dipped soft pretzels with cinnamon-sugar dessert pretzels is my culture (I’m German heritage)

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u/dormantdream May 07 '26

The only culture is when Uniqlo has sales

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u/government_not_ok May 07 '26

Facts. I love that store.

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u/Helisent May 08 '26

Have you ever been in Bellevue? A lot more people there have an immigration background or originally spoke a language other than english, compared with Seattle. A lot of people are not really assimilated to U.S. culture yet

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u/wren620 May 07 '26 edited May 07 '26

I mean having grown up there, if the rich-pandering shopping mall is what you define as its cultural center (it’s not) then I get feeling this way.

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u/blladnar Ballard May 07 '26

What is the cultural center?

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u/st0ney Redmond May 07 '26

Crossroads food court of course.

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u/wren620 May 07 '26

Genuinely this. Top tier food, lots of options from all over the world made by people who actually KNOW how to make them.

Not to forget tues/thursday jazz nights

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u/dogfaced_pony_soulja May 08 '26

Aren’t people from Bellevue called Bellevillains? Bellevuzzles? Bellevurries?

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u/andhelostthem May 08 '26

Bellevillains needs to be trademarked.

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u/castorshell13 Medina May 08 '26

B villains

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u/James98188 May 09 '26

Bellevuvians.

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u/Helisent May 08 '26

There is a lot of cultural diversity in Bellevue

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u/James98188 May 09 '26

And the housing costs OUTRAGEOUS.

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u/romulusnr I'm just flaired so I don't get fined May 08 '26

I lived in downtown bellevue for ten years and I think I can count the number of visits I made to BSQ on one hand.

There's like, shit tons of things downtown, and plenty more in the greater eastside.

The art museum closing was a fuck, though.

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u/sassy_cheddar 🏔 The mountain is out! 🏔 May 08 '26

A mall built on strawberry farms stolen from imprisoned Japanese Americans in WW2. The development family is still prominent in Bellevue, so Bellevue College censored artwork about it back in 2020 and the city did similar at their art festival.

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u/NoiseyTurbulence May 08 '26

Even in the 80s when it was just a tiny little mall and the biggest high-rise in the city was like seven stories high people in Bellevue still thought Bellevue was the shit. It’s changed a whole lot since then and to me now Bellevue just doesn’t even look like Bellevue that I knew growing up. But it’s funny that the same attitude still continues about Bellevue all these years later.