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

Plant-based diets are associated with mental illness and depression in particular. Seattle is one of the most plant-based/soy latte cities in the world. Throw in six months of grey drizzle (no solar-based vitamin D) and you have a recipe for a sad sick city. So glad I moved out.

seattle prattle wrote:

Until the wildfires started. Now you can't go out of your house in August.

When was that, 15,000 BC?

jamin wrote:

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

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It may have something to do with, "The unappealing gray ceiling." I grew up on the coast south of San Francisco and it was always foggy. I noticed that most of the people that I grew up with tended to be depressed and unmotivated. At least it didn't drizzle every day. I lived in the Seattle area for four months and the area is beautiful, but the dismal weather was even too much for me. "It's the weather, stupid."

YMMV wrote:

Plant-based diets are associated with mental illness and depression in particular. Seattle is one of the most plant-based/soy latte cities in the world. Throw in six months of grey drizzle (no solar-based vitamin D) and you have a recipe for a sad sick city. So glad I moved out.

Good one!

Was Kurt Cobain happy? I mean, he named his band Nirvana, so he must be happy.

Here's an article that actually quotes some studies, discounting many of them, but does coin the catchy phrase "Seattle Affective Disorder".

I particularly like the last paragraph:

"While Seattle probably doesn't deserve its dreary reputation and with all the debate about the prevalence and nature of SAD. My advice: Don’t overthink it. Do what makes you feel better. By all means go get lightbox therapy or do what alleviates your SAD symptoms. And drink orange juice."

http://www.dailyuw.com/opinion/article_16aa3a40-1a0b-11e9-92c8-a7b3534c8a8e.html

CC Writer wrote:

Was Kurt Cobain happy? I mean, he named his band Nirvana, so he must be happy.

NO! He was really unhappy. He had ongoing problem with his addiction and had close calls, several, before meeting his end.

Ever heard of the word, "sarcasm." Maybe CC Writer was a little too subtle for you.

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.

I wish more people would listen to Precious Roy and stop moving here in droves. It makes the traffic worse and the housing prices soar. It's actually much worse than Precious Roy lets on. I guess he was just being polite.

CC Writer wrote:

Was Kurt Cobain happy? I mean, he named his band Nirvana, so he must be happy.

Nirvana is the place you escape to from a miserable existence, which he eventually did, except not really, he's just dead. People get really delusional.

In the world there are two kinds of rain forests: the tropical kind where happy butt naked people live lives of leisure, and the temperate kind where the mold seeps into your bones and rots you from the inside as you huddle shivering awaiting welcome death i.e. Nirvana.

As threads like this show, the saddest area in the US is between the OP's ears.

Wasn't Seattle the birthplace of suicide rock in the early 90s?

always made me want to go buy some rope wrote:

Wasn't Seattle the birthplace of suicide rock in the early 90s?

It also produced Jimi Hendrix, one of the most influential musicians of the 20th century. No one here could hold a candle to him - eh, jamin?

Is this a surprise?

Businesses are fleeing the downtown area due to the absolute incompetence of local government to corral the homeless problem (not to mention the protestors).

Traffic sucks and about to get a lot worse with the impeding bridge shutdown.

Weather is just gloomy this time of year.

Real estate prices are sky-high.

Rent prices are sky-high.

Ridiculously liberal governments at all levels. I read something recently where someone in one of the legislatures (can't remember if it was city/county/state) wanted to pass a bill saying it was okay to break into peoples' homes and businesses and steal things, as long as you could prove that you stole them to then sell them to provide for yourself/family.

I have a friend who lives in Auburn as he is helping with an elderly family member who is, very sadly, in failing health....he said if he could, he would be gone from the state as soon as it took him time to finish packing.

I been hearing something about some really big hornets, too.

You are a clown. Design some houses in "DRIGGS" for all means.

Why are they moving out of liberal crap hole cities again??? Why?

Oh that's right because D E M O C R A T S have destroyed those cities.

All you are missing is the clown nose and and floppy shoes......

I haven't been to Seattle in a number of years other than flying through on my way to Alaska. I used to go there fairly regularly and it was always a nice place to visit. My wife went there for a class a couple years back and told me the place has turned into a dump full of tweakers and homeless camps. It's sad to hear of its decline. Similar things have happened to Denver, LA, San Fran, etc. The three common elements seem to be high housing prices, liberal drug laws and lenient democratic leadership that stresses the rights of criminals over public safety.