I Hate Seattle

Reading this blog had me thinking about a situation on my current job from late last year. As a new hire I had to complete an employee data sheet for HR. One of the questions asked for a person to contact in case of an emergency but the contact had to be local. All of my family and are 3000 some odd miles away.... I racked my brain to think of a local contact to name. I came up with no one I could actually depend on if something ever happened to me. I was sad and embarrassed that I felt I had no true friends in Seattle.

The so-called friendships I have here are what I like to refer to as activities partners. I'm invited to lots of nights outs, parties and the odd hiking trip. But in between the various activities I rarely hear from anyone. Missing is the day to day contact that I had with my friends at home and from college. Almost everyday we'd call each other to say hi and maybe hangout. We cared about what was going on in each others lives. I know these are people I could always trust and count on if I needed them.

So this is my first post here.

I have to say that I cannot wait to get the hell out of here. I am from Los Angeles. Now before you say that we aren't comparing apples to apples, I have been to many cities before. And for extended amounts of time. I have to say that I have NEVER met as many two faced-flaky-passive aggressive people in my life, as I have met here in Seattle. I have met girls and guys that simply ignore your texts, emails and phone calls. The question is, why give me your info if you don't want me to use it? I think i have enough examples for my sample to be valid. A girl from work invited me to a party that she didn't show for. I met a some dude and his cousins at a bar. He told me to take his info and he would tell me all about the city. He stopped responding after the 3rd message. 3 ladies shared their facebook with me just to ignore my messages. I have since deleted them. Finally, a waitress volunteered her email info to me and again, has not returned any messages.

I went back to L.A. a couple weekends ago and was STUNNED to have people actually come up to me and chat without me asking. There are some cities that I have been to for weekends and have met more people than I have here in 3 months.

In addition to all of this I am really into golf. While I get that rain is just a part of Seattle, by the time I get a chance to go out, the courses are still so muddy and wet that my balls just bury themselves into the ground when they hit. Walking through the course is a nightmare also. The fairways are so wet that your shoes look like balls of mud by the end of the day.

I was warned about the "Seattle Freeze" before I got here. I thought it was a load of crap and that the person telling me about it was just afraid to be social.

Try going to www.ihatelosangeles.com or www.ihatenewyork.com or www.ihatephoenix.com.

While these domain names will exist or redirect you to somewhere else, they will NOT have an active board like this site does. That should tell any skeptics everything they need to know.

This place is WEAK and not for me. Do I feel better now that I have posted? No, I dont. I dream of the day of packing up my car and getting the hell out of here. How can a whole city take on such a pathetic characteristic? Few leaders, many followers is what it sounds like to me. Stop hiding behind your "education" Seattle.

There is nothing to do here, it is impossible to make friends, it rains all the time, and everyone is so stuck up an pretentious with their little jobs and their plaid and their crappy whiny indie alternative music. I am so sick of sitting around all day with nothing to do, perusing the internet in VAIN to find something slightly interesting other than the space needle, pike place market, or pioneer square tours. Its been IMPOSSIBLE to find friends here!!! Everyone is so into themselves its a wonder there is a social scene here!