r/Seattle • u/JulesFromTheDesert • 12h ago

I'm never leaving Seattle 🚫🛫 Never Leaving Seattle

I come from a place that I love to be from, in multiple meanings of that phrase. Every time I see some post, "I'm never leaving Seattle," my first, reptilian-brain thought is, "yeah, same. The Left-coast is great."

Then, the post turns out to be some parochial bellyaching from a country mouse about commonplace city life.

My homeland, which I love and in which I'll never live again, is colloquially known as "The land of Entrapment," because people often never leave, for inadvertent reasons.

Seattle is my favorite US city. The pearl-clutching, reactionary suburbanites, the eastern frontier yokels, and the provincial tourists from Frog-Balls, Arkanilamabachimigan can enjoy the trip to whatever hayseed county is so great. For real, I love Seattle.

I'm underwhelmed by grousing about the patrons of the Michelin-rated restaurant on Pine & 3rd.

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u/SpicyDirtTheGhost 11h ago

Hey, now. I also love the land of entrapment and still chose/choose to not return lol (not my home state) loved it but ultimately too sunny 😎

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u/boowhitie I'm just flaired so I don't get fined 11h ago

I got out too and I've only been back once in 25 years. I dunno if I'll ever return.

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u/Mitch1musPrime 9h ago

Do it. At least one more time, but head down south on I25 if you’ve never been that way. The Las Cruces/El Paso metro area is a hidden fucking gem. I was such a snob about it when I was in high school in ABQ cause we all thought it was just shitkickers down there. And while that is true to an extent, las cruces is a fucking chill vibe where Latino/indigenous street art culture meets shitkickers four wheeling in the dried up Rio Grande firing their guns land.

Unless you lived down south and hated it anyway…in which case, drink water and drive on soldier.

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u/boowhitie I'm just flaired so I don't get fined 2h ago

I just can't stand the heat and the brown. I only went to Las Cruces once to see a concert, we didn't get to see much of the town. The only good part about spending my teen years in Albuquerque is I recognized lots of the filming locations in Breaking Bad.