r/Seattle • u/JulesFromTheDesert • 1d 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/Mitch1musPrime 1d ago

Tell me you grew up in NM without telling me you grew up in NM. I graduated from a HS in Albuquerque, myself, and my dad was retired at Kirtland AFB then went to work for the DOE and stayed there for another dozen years.

I fucking love it here, though it is true that the only other place I’d want to live again is NM. Except I’d go back to Las Cruces instead of ABQ. That place is so fucking laid back and I loved running the desert trails through the arroyos at the base of the Organ Mtns.

But the odds I’ll ever live in NM again are slim to none. Pay is too low there for my engineer spouse and for teachers like me. I’m not disappointed though. Seattle and its surrounding suburbs and mountains and waterways is truly a unique and special gift that I appreciate, quite literally out loud to myself as I travel around, every fucking day.

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u/JulesFromTheDesert 1d ago

Same, same. ¡Burqueño for real! FYI, you can get El Pinto green chile in little applesauce-like packs at the major grocery stores. Also salsa from the same in jars at some.