Seattle's Demons Part 1
When I first moved here from Alabama, about six years ago, I was absolutely enchanted by Seattle. The lush greenery, handsome skyline, diversity of cultures and counter cultures, and so forth were all very pleasing to my naive, southern eye. But after I settled here for about six months, I noticed that all isn't as it seems. Even though this is a very pretty city, it is extremely empty on the inside.
In the south, I considered myself to be liberal minded and always equated liberalism with tolerance, open mindedness and harmony. In contrast to the loud mouthed bigotry of SOME republicans, the southern bred liberal was mostly a progressive and peaceful person, who considered both sides of any argument, and had a great sense of humor about it. Now, don't get me wrong, not everybody was that balanced with communication, but you generally knew where you stood with a person, liberal or conservative.
Disclaimer: Now before I make any blanket statements, let me say that not everybody is as I will describe. I will just use Seattleite as a generalization of what i've seen for the most part. I'm going to let off some steam now...
Seattleites are NOT nice. They are not tolerant of differences, and are very elitist. They form closed off cliques of people whose image and resources they feel they can immediately benefit from. And even though they are nerds for the most part, (which is not bad) they are also extremely superficial. Customer service is poor and I have often felt that the person behind the counter was mocking me. People here act like grown up kids. Not that they have a child like appreciation for life, but like they are grown up, spoiled brat, rich kids who pout anytime you say something that bursts their little Seattle bubble. They are passive agressive. I didn't even know what passive aggressive was until I came to this place, where the word is demonstrated on a moment to moment basis...
Ugh! I'm running out of time and have to go to work. I'll be back for part 2.