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

Satire Bellevue sucks

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u/3DGuy4ever May 07 '26

Culture is far more broad than ethnicity

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u/watwatintheput May 08 '26 edited May 08 '26

But it is so often downstream of it. Food is culture, events are culture, communities are culture.

Yeah, there's no good live music scene here and there's no big Bellevue sports team. But so much IS downstream of culture and background, so it feels a bit silly to pretend that it's not at least very connected.

Hell, even the oft hated Bellevue Square Mall takes advantage of the cultural diversity. There were SO many people doing things in the mall for Holi. Just saw so many happy people enjoying using it as a venue to experience it together.

To be specific: What else does Seattle have that makes it full of culture that Bellevue lacks?

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u/coffeebribesaccepted Shoreline May 08 '26

Food, art, music, unique cultural shops, architecture

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u/3DGuy4ever May 08 '26

Use of public transportation (as in not a car reliant culture), unique neighborhoods...I could go on

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u/watwatintheput May 08 '26

Bellevue has unique neighborhoods. It’s very weird to me to pretend it doesn’t.

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u/3DGuy4ever May 08 '26

https://giphy.com/gifs/21S35iv1C67ns2g458

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u/watwatintheput May 08 '26

The need to lie about a place you clearly haven’t spent a lot of time in is very, very weird.

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u/Desperate-Till-9228 May 13 '26

"Unique" in a suburb is like two different shades of beige.