New study shows Seattle, WA is the saddest metro area in the U.S.

Yea I love it here.

Another positive is that weed is legal and there’s no stigma if you like to partake. No one cares if you like to go relax and chill.

Ha, you moved out because you couldn't afford it. Truth is, "libruhl" cities have lower crime rates and higher standards of living than any conservative "city." SLC has one of the highest property crime rates in the nation. Tiny Boise has a higher property crime rate than NYC. I'm sorry you got priced out of the market in a place people want to live, but maybe you should have tried harder in school. Idaho will soon become too expensive for you too, now that all the Californian conservatives are moving there.

Both cities will never come back. Sick to the core. Bail out before it is too late.

wazzu1452 wrote:I moved out of Seattle to Idaho and it was the best move ever. No COVID restrictions at all. Everything is open. People are free to do what they like. Taxes are low. No crime. No drug addicts sleeping on our streets. No 1619 Project being taught to anyone. No Critical Race theory being implemented. No CHOP Zones. No gender neutral bathrooms for the weak and confused. We have lots of Charter Schools and gun ranges and American Flags. So most liberals would hate it but lots of people are moving here.

You moved to Idaho so you could be closer to all the white supremacist groups that have their core base there? Seems fitting. I'm sure Hayden Lake is a great place to be with others that hold that same type of belief system.

You stated no coronavirus restrictions. That probably explains why Covid-19 is on a significant rise there.

Interesting. My comment was removed from earlier today. I said that I agreed with paleontogist. I also quoted LBJ who stated, "What's the difference between a cannibal and a liberal? Cannibals don't eat their friends."

Bummbull wrote:

Yea I love it here.

Another positive is that weed is legal and there’s no stigma if you like to partake. No one cares if you like to go relax and chill.

Weed is legal in over half the country and decriminalized in all but 3 or 4 states. It's not 2014 anymore.

*Seattle has the most people who will admit they are depressed

Idaho is 35/50th in covid cases, moron, what are you talking about? You also thought the other poster's comment had anything at all to do with white supremacism, so I'm guessing reading comprehension is not your strongsuit

Hardloper wrote:

Bummbull wrote:

Yea I love it here.

Another positive is that weed is legal and there’s no stigma if you like to partake. No one cares if you like to go relax and chill.

Weed is legal in over half the country and decriminalized in all but 3 or 4 states. It's not 2014 anymore.

Just saying as another positive of Seattle. Didn’t know that over half the country has legal recreational weed now. News to me.

wazzu1452 wrote:

Seattle, like Portland, is run 100% by Progressive Democrats and has been for decades. Like LA or San Fran, people are moving out daily because of crime, poverty, high taxes and all of the other things that come along with 100% one party DEMOCRAT control.

I moved out of Seattle to Idaho and it was the best move ever. No COVID restrictions at all. Everything is open. People are free to do what they like. Taxes are low. No crime. No drug addicts sleeping on our streets. No 1619 Project being taught to anyone. No Critical Race theory being implemented. No CHOP Zones. No gender neutral bathrooms for the weak and confused. We have lots of Charter Schools and gun ranges and American Flags. So most liberals would hate it but lots of people are moving here.

Seattle is dying:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bpAi70WWBlw

Funny that you are ranting about other stuff, not Seattle being sad like the OP posted. Please stay on topic.

Also, many from San Francisco Bay Area moved to Idaho. I actually know about 10 people who did in the past 18 months. You aren’t creative, just someone who moved to a beautiful place relatively close to the place where you WERE living (the states border each other-wow, huge leap!) who is to say all of the “liberals” that are moving there won’t impose their beliefs and pass bills and have referendums to change it to be more similar to LA and Seattle and Portland and SF. It will happen, just hasn’t yet. Look at Austin, Tx. Exact thing is happening and will get worse until it becomes what you were leaving.

I’m designing $5-$10mil dollar homes in Driggs and Ketchum for those who have fled Seattle and San Francisco and NYC- it’s like Aspen and Boulder and The Hampton’s. A huge line of contractor pick up trucks into town in the morning and out at the end of day because they can no longer afford homes in town. All the original locals will be priced out in short while. Wake up, bruh. You’re supposed to be woke.

I’ve heard your explanation from other people so many times it’s cliche and boring. Put yourself out there and learn to embrace a place and impact it it instead of blaming others and running away.

Regarding happiness- When I lived in Copenhagen, Denmark in the early 2000’s, international suicide figures were released. Denmark was #2 in the world behind Japan. The reasoning and study was that the people had such good lives from the very start, but whenever anything, usually small, went wrong in their lives they weren’t equipped to deal with it and some ended their lives. Nothing to do with politics.

1.) Shelve the elitist tone, please.

2.) Your study amounts to hearsay.

3.) The reason why people are sad is far more complex than you give credit for.

4.) Ironic that your current LR handle is "yeah but at least i'm not unoriginal", as that is not an original name, but plagiarized from Good Will Hunting.

All port cities have many layers of pretentiousness built around their essential function of putting stuff on and taking stuff off of boats.

Either you work in that industry or you are a useless moocher with no real point being there. But it's such a lucrative industry it can support plenty of moochers.

Does it even matter? Really?

Who give a flying f_?

All in favor that the OP grow a pair and pack them into some big boy pants for a change say 'aye'.

Okay, so we all know Seattle is a kickass place to live. We know because it is so in demand. Not going to belabor the obvious....

So i already posted that it is like the 9th most desirable place to live in the U.S.

So I thought, we gives a damn about some dumb metric like sadness. So the first thing i think to google is FITTEST Cities in the U.S. And guess what. Seattle is #2. Isn't that more important than some vague thing like sadness. What a joke. Link:

https://americanfitnessindex.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/07/2020-American-Fitness-Index-Summary-Report.pdf

My advice, find something and some place you love At all costs. Life is too short to be so bitter. You're welcome.

I hear everyone talking about employment as the number one reason to pick a destination as to where they reside. I make more more money tending to the locals as a small business owner than i ever made in corporate merica. They dish out cash like its going out of fashion. God bless Seattle and mostly mercer island.

wazzu1452 wrote:

Seattle, like Portland, is run 100% by Progressive Democrats and has been for decades. Like LA or San Fran, people are moving out daily because of crime, poverty, high taxes and all of the other things that come along with 100% one party DEMOCRAT control.

I moved out of Seattle to Idaho and it was the best move ever. No COVID restrictions at all. Everything is open. People are free to do what they like. Taxes are low. No crime. No drug addicts sleeping on our streets. No 1619 Project being taught to anyone. No Critical Race theory being implemented. No CHOP Zones. No gender neutral bathrooms for the weak and confused. We have lots of Charter Schools and gun ranges and American Flags. So most liberals would hate it but lots of people are moving here.

Seattle is dying:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bpAi70WWBlw

I assume you are in Boise then. Sounds like a great city, but what about other places in Idaho? I figure CDA would be pretty nice too

Of course, my handle was referencing Good Will Hunting. (Glad someone picked up on it). Intentionally ironic.

And of course, my points are generalized and sadness is complex. It’s incredibly complicated. The main point of my post was to rant about another persons rant - someone who didn’t even address the topic of the thread they were responding too and got off into a fairly common diatribe about the west coast. I said i was bored by it and gave some anecdotes.

The elitist thing- yeah, I guess I kinda do I feel like I’m better than most on this board. I’m only arrogant in anonymous forums - otherwise I’m generally likable. Sorry.

The Denmark thing is absolutely legit though. Denmark, Finland and Sweden are usually too 10 in “worlds happiest places” as a whole but also top 10 for suicide. Do some research. Not hearsay.

kenyan in Seattle wrote:

I hear everyone talking about employment as the number one reason to pick a destination as to where they reside. I make more more money tending to the locals as a small business owner than i ever made in corporate merica. They dish out cash like its going out of fashion. God bless Seattle and mostly mercer island.

Doing what?

My wife grew up in Seattle and I have been going out there to visit her family for over two decades. Seattle has always been sad. Months and months of 45 deg and light rain. And then a couple of days in the summer it gets really hot and the lakes fill with bacteria and are not safe to swim in. There has always been an attitude in Seattle that it is cool to be gloomy and lame to be happy. Everyone wears dark colors and fleece all year round. It has always been and will always be a sad city.

Precious Roy wrote:

My wife grew up in Seattle and I have been going out there to visit her family for over two decades. Seattle has always been sad. Months and months of 45 deg and light rain. And then a couple of days in the summer it gets really hot and the lakes fill with bacteria and are not safe to swim in. There has always been an attitude in Seattle that it is cool to be gloomy and lame to be happy. Everyone wears dark colors and fleece all year round. It has always been and will always be a sad city.

The summers can be great. It is actually classified like an arid environment in the summer because the rains just stop unlike the rest of the year. And it is not as hot as most parts of the rest of the country. Just ideal..... Until the wildfires started. Now you can't go out of your house in August.

And don't get started on Seattle fashion (dark drab clothes). There isn't any. When i walk through an airport terminal, I swear i can tell the waiting areas for the people waiting to return to Seattle. It's not pretty. Frumpy is a word that comes to mind.

Still doesn't do much at keeping away, though, or curbing the demand. Go figure.