Weird how he only mentions the "war in Europe" without even a peep about the Pacific. Seattle was far more instrumental in the outcome in the Pacific and East Asia than just only Europe.
I was born in Seattle in 1960. First year Generation-X, I’ve worked since i was 9 picking strawberries & by the age of 54 after working at Boeing, it was pretty obvious i could not work any more. Seattle as well as all local surrounding communities and state government has totally failed me & others when it comes to housing. We have been told its complicated but its really not complicated at all. They saw the jobs coming, they saw the people moving here & refused to plan for anyone except the businesses. A job means nothing if you have no place to live & when you have neither you have no purpose to live. People claim they have empathy but do nothing to prove it. Ive worked my entire life building this city & in return when my body can not work anymore & housing costs, inflation have gone well beyond a normal retirement plan, Seattle has chewed me up & spit me out. Its incredibly shocking & yeah it rips my heart. I did not plan for such cruelty from my city. But it is what it is.
As someone who grew up listening to grunge music in Toronto in the early 90's I have always been fascinated by Seattle. Is it a good place to live and work today?
I’ve been born and raised in Seattle great city for the outdoors,and good economy, but homelessness is high and the constant rain can definitely take an affect of newcomers not that it rains a a lot when it does but like the video said half the year or more is spent raining or without sun and that figure goes up more if you just count overcast.
i recommend taking a trip out for maybe 4-5 days and explore not just downtown but other neighborhoods as well. the natural landscape of seattle is beautiful and enough reason for me to want to move. but seattle also has a strong drug addiction/homelessness issue that is much more apparent compared to eastern cities, it may come as a shock to some. therefore, if you want to live here, it'd be best to come out and see which neighborhood speaks to you the best
A lot of the exact people interviewed and mentalities displayed are exactly what have held Seattle back when it comes to housing and inequality. The whole recounting of Seattle's history lauds the ability to "Move mountains" and grow exponentially during the gold rush and build the Space Needle in a year, but when it comes to the current Seattle, it's comments like "the wrong rate of growth" and "1-2 story buildings". Modern Seattle leaders and urban planners are more concerned with building shadows than actually densifying the city in a way that both matches Seattle's past no-holds-barred approach and actually makes a dent in housing a rental costs. More housing equals cheaper housing. Super simple supply and demand equation.
13:26 The B17 contract almost got cancelled because, the first test flight for the Army Air Corp, crashed soon after takeoff. Was not...a good look. Turns out, the flight crew forgot to remove the control surface locks, used while the aircraft are on the ground. The modern preflight check list, and checklists in general, became a thing because of that very test flight. Pretty amazing when you think about it. Another interesting story was, B17s randomly just exploded mid flight. Engineers struggled to figure out why bombers that weren't attacked were just falling out of the sky for no apparent reason. Well, there was. I recommend looking into it but ..hint...had to do with the ball turret. Sadly, it was solved to late for the flight crews, 10 or 11 at the time....dead. Amazing aircraft though. Yet sadly, the 8th Army Aircorp lost more soldiers than any other unit in WW2. They really took it on the chin. Crazy brave! Mad respect!
Seattle was the most beautiful, livable city up into the 2000s. It was as they say innovative on top of its ideal climate and locality to natural resources, including Alaska. But since 2010 its just all downhill, living off the legacy and what was built before. The people who run Seattle now couldn't successfully run a donut shop. But they can wax poetically about inequality and the need for more funding etc. I used to go to a mall down town on Friday nights around 2009. Jam packed with people shopping, seeing movies (bumped into Bill Gates more than once; it was that popular). Restaurants, arcades and other malls packed to the gills. Now, its DEAD quiet. Its unbelievable. And the people and policies responsible get no blame; their party still gets all the votes. Liberalism is a mental disorder.
SA govt is run by people racist towards whites. In other words, it is xenophobic also towards white talents. SA will continue sliding into a 3rd world country.
Seattle, don’t do to your downtown traffic what Portland did. Keep the bike lanes conservative. Please continue to develop the light rail system though; LINK is excellent.
Seattle is terrible. It’s unaffordable and still getting more expensive, the “culture” is a façade, the streets anywhere in downtown are dangerous with the cops doing nothing about it, public transit is 30 years behind and slow to expand, and the residents are largely unapproachable and awkward (aka the Seattle Freeze). Don’t move here, you’ll regret it.
This video glamorizes corporations and millionaires without making any connection to the homeless and environmental issues. Why does the camera need to constantly jump around and focus in and out so often, it’s exhausting to watch. Even a photo of indigenous people flies by split seconds, doing all that focusing and jumping, no respect.
Wealth? Even if you don't work at a Seattle tech job, anyone can divert a % of their income to buy publicly-traded stock Lots of millionaires & landowners in the area are simple, frugal people who are careful with $.
- you didn't make money searching for gold, you made money selling picks and shovels to idiots who wanted search for gold. - they needed supplies and we sold them at high markup. Extremely disrespectful comments from the narrators displaying unpleasant view of the city and the documentary. I'm a foreigner and unfortunately this is my take 😬
Seattle had a very rich history...too bad they left out HOW the city was founded, the design, the colorful individuals who actually interacted with Duamish Tribe Chief Se'ahl (Seattle), no mention of the temporat Denney, or the original "skid row" of Yesler Way. What a farce this video is...nothing here of the actual building of the city of Seattle, just the revamping of it since WWII.
We don't need any more luxurious unaffordable apartments and condos built for tech bros. Build some decent housing normal people can afford to live in without having to slave away at a full-time job in addition to a BS part-time gig to make ends meet.
This video became outdated pretty fast, downtown is hollowed out, Amazon is now headquartered in Bellevue, homeless and drug use is rampant, cost of living super high, rents out of control, super expensive housing market, tech companies halting expansion, slashing jobs.
So how da fk to build a city ? Literally just 1 hour history lesson , only once u mentioned street grid or anything related to actually planning a city....
Weird how he only mentions the "war in Europe" without even a peep about the Pacific. Seattle was far more instrumental in the outcome in the Pacific and East Asia than just only Europe.
I was born in Seattle in 1960. First year Generation-X, I’ve worked since i was 9 picking strawberries & by the age of 54 after working at Boeing, it was pretty obvious i could not work any more. Seattle as well as all local surrounding communities and state government has totally failed me & others when it comes to housing. We have been told its complicated but its really not complicated at all. They saw the jobs coming, they saw the people moving here & refused to plan for anyone except the businesses. A job means nothing if you have no place to live & when you have neither you have no purpose to live. People claim they have empathy but do nothing to prove it. Ive worked my entire life building this city & in return when my body can not work anymore & housing costs, inflation have gone well beyond a normal retirement plan, Seattle has chewed me up & spit me out. Its incredibly shocking & yeah it rips my heart. I did not plan for such cruelty from my city. But it is what it is.
You're a boomer... Gen X 1965
The city failed you? You failed you. Time to bring some value to the city rather than taking. Glad you are out
@@jordanl5341 brother he opened his comment by saying he's been working his whole life, have you not heard of retirement?
Yay my favorite US city!
Seattle
Boston
New York
San Fransisco (before)
Miami
As someone who grew up listening to grunge music in Toronto in the early 90's I have always been fascinated by Seattle. Is it a good place to live and work today?
I’ve been born and raised in Seattle great city for the outdoors,and good economy, but homelessness is high and the constant rain can definitely take an affect of newcomers not that it rains a a lot when it does but like the video said half the year or more is spent raining or without sun and that figure goes up more if you just count overcast.
Seattle is an innovative, industrious, outdoors type city. Always something to do.
i recommend taking a trip out for maybe 4-5 days and explore not just downtown but other neighborhoods as well. the natural landscape of seattle is beautiful and enough reason for me to want to move. but seattle also has a strong drug addiction/homelessness issue that is much more apparent compared to eastern cities, it may come as a shock to some. therefore, if you want to live here, it'd be best to come out and see which neighborhood speaks to you the best
Better than Toronto for sure, the entire west coast is
Other than the obvious nimby-isms, good video.
A very happy video❤
I want to partake in so many events, but i can't afford it
Why no mention of Underground Seattle or Thomas Crapper (developer of indoor plumbing) in this video?
Or the mention of Cheif Seattle?
Absolutely ❤
A lot of the exact people interviewed and mentalities displayed are exactly what have held Seattle back when it comes to housing and inequality. The whole recounting of Seattle's history lauds the ability to "Move mountains" and grow exponentially during the gold rush and build the Space Needle in a year, but when it comes to the current Seattle, it's comments like "the wrong rate of growth" and "1-2 story buildings". Modern Seattle leaders and urban planners are more concerned with building shadows than actually densifying the city in a way that both matches Seattle's past no-holds-barred approach and actually makes a dent in housing a rental costs. More housing equals cheaper housing. Super simple supply and demand equation.
also, showing news footage of Houston flooding when talking about rain in Seattle epitomizes why this is not a good documentary.
There is some truth to that but there already is a lot of new construction and scaling up the rate of construction isn't a silver bullet.
Thank you
13:26 The B17 contract almost got cancelled because, the first test flight for the Army Air Corp, crashed soon after takeoff. Was not...a good look.
Turns out, the flight crew forgot to remove the control surface locks, used while the aircraft are on the ground.
The modern preflight check list, and checklists in general, became a thing because of that very test flight.
Pretty amazing when you think about it.
Another interesting story was, B17s randomly just exploded mid flight. Engineers struggled to figure out why bombers that weren't attacked were just falling out of the sky for no apparent reason. Well, there was. I recommend looking into it but ..hint...had to do with the ball turret. Sadly, it was solved to late for the flight crews, 10 or 11 at the time....dead.
Amazing aircraft though. Yet sadly, the 8th Army Aircorp lost more soldiers than any other unit in WW2. They really took it on the chin. Crazy brave! Mad respect!
Seattle was the most beautiful, livable city up into the 2000s. It was as they say innovative on top of its ideal climate and locality to natural resources, including Alaska. But since 2010 its just all downhill, living off the legacy and what was built before. The people who run Seattle now couldn't successfully run a donut shop. But they can wax poetically about inequality and the need for more funding etc.
I used to go to a mall down town on Friday nights around 2009. Jam packed with people shopping, seeing movies (bumped into Bill Gates more than once; it was that popular). Restaurants, arcades and other malls packed to the gills. Now, its DEAD quiet. Its unbelievable. And the people and policies responsible get no blame; their party still gets all the votes. Liberalism is a mental disorder.
Traffic is a nightmare in Seattle.
As well as Seattle politics.
all the more reason for public transit
For a fun look into Seattle history, read "Son of Profits". ;-)
You guys should make a documentary series on how not to build a city by using examples of Indian cities.
Nobody cares about India after Britain left.. 🥱
What's wrong with the Indian cities?
@@rbtjan google their data vs other countries.. 😞
@@rbtjanI mean look at it. It's basically a mess. The city seems to expand without any planning at all.
Pioneer Place and Pike market. SMH was no research done?
The most important thin in seattle is that dr. Frasier crane lives there😊
Why are you using 2019 stats framed as "now" in a video from 2024?
Come build in South-Africa
SA govt is run by people racist towards whites. In other words, it is xenophobic also towards white talents. SA will continue sliding into a 3rd world country.
Unaffordable rents
Love my city
❤❤
Seattle, don’t do to your downtown traffic what Portland did. Keep the bike lanes conservative. Please continue to develop the light rail system though; LINK is excellent.
Where are the drug Zombies? but Seattle urban planing is infinitley better than the city where im currently living in.
a person moves to seattle every 9 minutes 😳
So at 25-30 mins we roll in and hear all the reasons why Seattle has a housing affordability crisis.
Livestock on the roof 🙄 mmmm okay
Coffee culture and good urban planning in the PNW is in Portland not Seattle.
Prove your point. You can't just say that without backing it up.
The music is pissing me off.
typa stuff they had in 2018, this looks like a re upload or sum
Well thanks … now it’s pissing me off. lol
Money should take lessons on how to build a city from Seattle. Seattle is a mess now. Homeless everywhere
What’s the homelessness per capita?
Seattle is terrible. It’s unaffordable and still getting more expensive, the “culture” is a façade, the streets anywhere in downtown are dangerous with the cops doing nothing about it, public transit is 30 years behind and slow to expand, and the residents are largely unapproachable and awkward (aka the Seattle Freeze). Don’t move here, you’ll regret it.
We need to protest protesting
This video glamorizes corporations and millionaires without making any connection to the homeless and environmental issues. Why does the camera need to constantly jump around and focus in and out so often, it’s exhausting to watch. Even a photo of indigenous people flies by split seconds, doing all that focusing and jumping, no respect.
Wealth?
Even if you don't work at a Seattle tech job, anyone can divert a % of their income to buy publicly-traded stock
Lots of millionaires & landowners in the area are simple, frugal people who are careful with $.
- you didn't make money searching for gold, you made money selling picks and shovels to idiots who wanted search for gold.
- they needed supplies and we sold them at high markup.
Extremely disrespectful comments from the narrators displaying unpleasant view of the city and the documentary. I'm a foreigner and unfortunately this is my take 😬
They should take care of all the new drug addicts they brought with them
I could only watch half of this. The jump camera, zoom, and unfocus/focus over and over again is nauseating.
Drugs
3🛑🛑
Seattle had a very rich history...too bad they left out HOW the city was founded, the design, the colorful individuals who actually interacted with Duamish Tribe Chief Se'ahl (Seattle), no mention of the temporat Denney, or the original "skid row" of Yesler Way. What a farce this video is...nothing here of the actual building of the city of Seattle, just the revamping of it since WWII.
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In my opinion, it rains too much in Seattle.
In my opinion your opinion is irrelevant
@@Tony-so1zl In my opinion, your opinion is also irrelevant
In my opinion it doesn’t rain enough
In my opinion I like the rain
agugh
We don't need any more luxurious unaffordable apartments and condos built for tech bros.
Build some decent housing normal people can afford to live in without having to slave away at a full-time job in addition to a BS part-time gig to make ends meet.
This video became outdated pretty fast, downtown is hollowed out, Amazon is now headquartered in Bellevue, homeless and drug use is rampant, cost of living super high, rents out of control, super expensive housing market, tech companies halting expansion, slashing jobs.
So how da fk to build a city ? Literally just 1 hour history lesson , only once u mentioned street grid or anything related to actually planning a city....
how not to make a documentary
Stop the cut a always please
Overstimated for Seattle. City planning is acutally quite bad.
why making this video available worldwide if immigrating to the USA is IMPOSSIBLE??? 😂😂😂
Cities are irrelevant. Remote is the future
Trump should watch this. But noo, covid.
It would be wasted on him.
spolier - cities are unsustainable pits of despair built on follower behavior
That place sucks whether crime traffic people and politics.