When you have real estate investors big enough to control markets, things like this can be on purpose. Think NYC in the '70's. Step one: turn it to sh!t. Step two: Gentrification. Are Seattle real estate values declining yet?
As a truck driver of more than 20 years, I have seen horrific changes in Seattle, and all the other big cities. I will not walk around anymore in Seattle. Very sad.
Even in 1999 I lived and worked downtown. I felt safe walking the streets coming home from my job. Not anymore!! It's just not safe. The inmates are running the asylu.
Maybe you should actually look up the real crime rate in Seattle it's not very high at all most Republican cities and significantly higher but those are facts and Fox News people are allergic to facts
They cant even lie well The safest city in the country???? Well if u are only talking about NYC, Philadelphia, Chicago, LA, Oakland, San Francisco, Sacramento, Louisville, just to name a few , all democrats cities.
What does California, Illinois, New York and all the major cities in America have in common? They have the highest homeless population and are all run by Democrats. Democrats have marketed themselves as the party for the poor. Therefore, the best way to stay in power is to create policies that create more and more poor people. The best example is California, known as the Golden State, once gave us Ronald Reagan and was the envy of the states. Today, California has the highest concentration of homelessness and welfare of any state in the country with Democrats in full control of every major political office as well as every major city including Los Angeles and San Francisco. Republicans are ignored as Democrats force policies that create more poverty and homelessness including: Rent Control: In theory it sounds good to prevent rent from increasing on poor; but multiple studies show it causes housing shortages that reduce the number of low-income people who can live in a city while raising the demand for housing. Further, it deters new housing construction and worsens the homelessness problem creating more homelessness than homes available.
@@r32guy10 exactly here in stockton,ca the cops cant really do much about the homeless situation here. They just clean up the homeless incampanents and they'll just move back and put trash everywhere. A bunch of drugged out rapest who love being homeless and cause a lot of fires thru out the city that get out of control. Enough of newman the homeless need to moved somewhere and if they have mental problems that need to be resolved.
@@r32guy10 So, you’re saying that cities with higher populations of people also have a higher population of homeless people compared to cities with lower populations. Who could have ever imagined that? You people go out of your way to be stupid.
My son lived outside of and worked in Seattle for Boeing along with his father In-law. Well he left a good job to go fight the war on terror, when he came back it had become so WOKE they all moved to Arizona. He live's in the desert and love's it. Unfortunately the Phoenix area has had thousand's move in from Commiefornia and it too has gotten worse. All of these Democratic cities are a mess, but that's Putin's fault. ( Lol )
I left 2 years ago, not only for the obvious decline in safety but got so tired of dealing with people who refused to recognize there was a problem. Complain and they would look at you as if you were the problem. It breaks my heart that it's allowed and very concerned that the laisse faire attitude will spread outside these urban cesspools.
You only hope that those who are leaving Seattle, Los Angeles and other Liberal cesspools, aren't bringing that Liberal Thinking that got those places to where they are at now. Don't Seattle our Texas.
you should look into the actual crime rates of democratic and Republic large cities. it's population density then increases crime not liberalism. Republican large metropolises have higher crime rates
@@darkeen42 The honest answer is that there are no safe cities. The question was stupid. The mayor should have said that all cities have crime and that they are working to reduce the crime in their city. People are stupid and just want to "feel" safe versus realizing that they are really just playing a game with odds and that the "safe" cities just have lower odds that people will run into trouble. Bad people are all over and bad things can happen at any time, even in places where most people may be good. The best people will find is a relatively safe city where the odds of being a victim of crime are lower.
@@CGT80 nowhere is safe and if you stop and think about it for a second crime in the city isn't necessarily particularly higher it's just hard to commit crimes when there's nobody around you like in a rural setting. But yes you keep whining about the big scary world just don't be surprised when everybody laughs at you for being whiny little punk. But still the highest crime regions are Republican that is undeniable. If cities were the problem you think the highest crime state would be one with many large cities instead of the one it is Mississippi Mississippi has the highest crime rate in the country why do you think that is?
I think the citizenry is to blame for voting in these people. And for those appointed, for not voicing strong opposition. The general public needs to be accountable for themselves. They are complicit.
You forgot one word: "This is what happens when you let BLACK..... do whatever they want to do.....". Other LIGHTER criminals are still held to the same standards....or punished more severely to reduce the "disparity".
Seattle actually has a significantly lower crime rate than the majority of the cities in Republican states. Their property values are still going up indicating people are moving to Seattle not from Seattle. This all takes 3 minutes of research but apparently facts don't matter to you you just prefer the b******* f**** excuse even though they open the admittent court only nonsensible people believe them
@@cybervigilante Yes, my husband and I went on vacation there on our motorcycle when we were in our twenties....that was 45 years ago. I wanted to move there. See o glad we didn't.
I moved away from Seattle in 2016 because I was warned in 2012 that it was going to get very crazy, starting in 2020. That warning was 100% accurate. I'm so glad I believed it and acted on it. I fell in love with Seattle back in 1970 when I first moved there. It was a vibrant, clean, low crime, working class city in a beautiful natural setting with inexpensive rents. 50 years of liberal politics has destroyed all that. It breaks my heart. BTW, the only reason sexual assault reports are down is because they no longer investigate them! So why bother to report it? It's always been underreported anyway.
Both of my parents have passed. I recently came across dozens of postcards they collected in 1954 while traveling from Jersey to Texas. What a beautiful country it WAS!!! Clean! New! Prosperous! Great Infrastructure!
As people like this man leave, Seattle will only be populated by people who are happy to live in a place like this. Let's hope that he and the other people fleeing Seattle don't bring Seattle politics with them.
I live in one of the reddest states in the nation and it sends shivers down my spine when a customer comes in my work and says "We just moved here from the West coast" One of the other cities near here has a sign at the edge of town that says "Don't California our city"
@@trans-octopusspacealien8883 Saw a plate from Hawaii here in Houston last weekend. They're shipping them in from across the water now. The Kalifornians are bad enough, now we're getting woke islanders :/. And yes, a "Republican" Kalifornian is nothing more than a moderate Democrat in the rest of the states.
Salt Lake City has already become liberal because of California implants. In 2020, when the Democratic mayor implemented the mask mandate, I moved out immediately!
Maybe look into the actual numbers and you will see many places are worse most of them Republican. Stop trusting Fox do 30 seconds of verifying to prove to yourself they are full of s***
I really think most of the people that leave are conservatives. I live in a liberal area and if I ever moved it would be to get away from the liberal nonsense.
He wasn't •asked• about the "trajectory"; he was asked about the •current• level of violence in Seattle. Politicians must have to learn how to speak "dodge-the-question" before running for office, b/c they're all SO good at it. 🙄
The current level of violence in Seattle is still significantly lower than most Republican cities. Just look at the most violent cities in America Seattle isn't even on the list. Some Republican conservative strongholds are definitely way up at the top of the list. You're a lump of cold calling the snowball black
I went to Seattle a few years ago. It was disgusting. Tents and homeless everywhere, the streets were disgusting, and the people were just rude. I told my mom I never want to visit again, and we haven’t since.
No but it does mean there's no reason to complain about Seattle who is not having a crime rate does not have unusually high crime rates. He's trying to explain to you you are being lied to.
@@jennytafoya261 or Fox News is just lying to you and Seattle is actually way down the list on most of those aspects boxes complaining about looking to the numbers stop f****** just mindlessly believing Fox
I fled Seattle two years ago for the same reason. We really used the downtown but couldn’t any longer. It isn’t safe. The city council knows this but lies about it. After my husband was chased by a man with a machete and my teens saw a dead guy in Cap. Hill, naked people walking aimlessly and doing drugs, we said enough. Very high taxes, horrid traffic, outrageous real estate, no police, 20 % hike in violent crime and taxpayers are the bad guys. Hard pass. They can have it.
F..k Escape from N.Y. and Escape from L.A. the whole dammed west coast states need to be walled off and kept that way. To bad, used to be beautiful but with all the fires they are starting, probably nothing left.
I see there were 2 comments under your comment that good ol censortube must have deleted. I'll be surprised if they don't delete my comment as well. Seattle hasn't gotten its nickname of Freeattle for nothing. Democratic, liberal policy....."if u give it to them, they will come"🤦🏼♂️
I'm sorry. My biggest fear is that these liberals move and vote the same way. I don't want any as neighbors. Just being honest....you get what you vote for.
What does California, Illinois, New York and all the major cities in America have in common? They have the highest homeless population and are all run by Democrats. Democrats have marketed themselves as the party for the poor. Therefore, the best way to stay in power is to create policies that create more and more poor people. The best example is California, known as the Golden State, once gave us Ronald Reagan and was the envy of the states. Today, California has the highest concentration of homelessness and welfare of any state in the country with Democrats in full control of every major political office as well as every major city including Los Angeles and San Francisco. Republicans are ignored as Democrats force policies that create more poverty and homelessness including: Rent Control: In theory it sounds good to prevent rent from increasing on poor; but multiple studies show it causes housing shortages that reduce the number of low-income people who can live in a city while raising the demand for housing. Further, it deters new housing construction and worsens the homelessness problem creating more homelessness than homes available.
I worked for the local Sheriff in King County, where Seattle is located. My career spanned 26+ years, with 22 in King County; patrol, plain clothes detective and finally, patrol supervisor. When I began in 1999 Seattle PD had about 1700 sworn. They currently have less then 900. The others retired or flat out quit due to the active, rabid anti police ideology of the city…it’s politicians and residents. SPD is unable to hire enough QUALIFIED candidates, despite lowering the hiring standards AND being among the highest paid rank & file in the region. No amount of money will convince officers to stay or hire on. Why would anyone? They know they get zero support and will be vilified for doing their jobs. Combine that with a useless, social justice county prosecutor and a rabid, anti- police county executive and city council and you have the root causes of this mess. Once marijuana was legalized, the problems only worsened. Drug users flocked there and were rewarded. The city spends hundred’s of millions per year and the junkies just multiply. The Homeless Industrial Complex is alive and well, with zero accountability. The city is awash in tents, tarps, garbage, stolen property, syringes, graffiti, boarded up businesses…it’s truly dystopian.
What a pity. I remember Seattle being the destination where everyone wanted to live. This is what happens when those in authority refuse to do their jobs and quite frankly do not do the right thing. Good going authorities, you have failed.
Same with Mpls/St Paul. Beautiful cities that have turned into dangerous no sane person goes there now cities with "no go zones" and businesses leaving cuz they're getting robbed so much one guys insurance canceled him. Extremely heartbreaking to watch
Drop the wokism and liberal elite ego's if you move into the heart of this country. Folks don't tolerate full time ignorance in states that provide the crops, they promote COMMON SENSE.
The U.S. remains the richest country in the world with an overall GDP of $23 trillion. Plus, average hourly wages are up 10%. The economy closed 2021 on a tear, with GDP growing 6.9% in the fourth quarter during a global pandemic, record low 3% unemployment rate and an amazing jobs report two months in a row. Thank you President Biden.
@@arriogarza9871 Yes? Even though I've seen studies that showed a lot of the movers have been net positive to the red areas they moved into. As in gains for the right and not the left in elections. Of course the data was from 2016-2020 so not sure of the waves in the last year or two. edit for clarification the election data was from Texas elections and voter registrations during those years. I'll still call them out though as they leave their blue area. Just to make sure...
It’s glaringly obvious that Seattle’s politics and policies are causing serious, dangerous issues. And by that measure Seattle attracts the type of people who align with those policies.
Maybe you should look into the actual numbers of Seattle instead of what fox claims about it. Veins is lower then a lot of Republican cities and property values still going up. Yes it attracts those kind of people that's I am so successful financially intelligent informed people move there
I live near Seattle and try to never ever go there , No more Mariner games , Seahawks games ,. Seattle is the last place we want to go to , which is a SHAME !
The real shame is that that crap in Seattle will spread out like an infection until the entire state is lost. Look at California, it started in San Francisco and LA and spread through the state, affecting everyone living there.
I urge anyone if you see people moving in to run them off through violence. Anyone in Texas remember 2008 when Cali fled to Texas? They said they'd change, then it flipped blue and has been a craphole since
My husband and I moved from SoCal almost 2 years ago to a town in North Western AZ. We bought a new construction home in a nice community. Most of our neighbors escaped CA. Luckily they all are like minded and patriots. It is a shame what became of my home state. We were both from families of generational Californians. It really got bad in the last 2 decades If you are a liberal and move to a red state, leave your political beliefs behind you and embrace freedom again.
Sounds like you moved to Kingman;) Nice little town, lived there for 20 years. But California escapies also do something else and that’s raise the price of housing in those areas. It’s happening to the current city I live in.
@@gregkasza1925 ummm supply and demand. More people fleeing Cali to other states leaves less housing options so prices go up. How exactly do you not understand that?
I have lived my entire life of 55 years I Northern California and recently retired. I’m selling my house and land and moving most likely to Idaho to buy as much land as I can afford and hopefully live out my life in peace. I can’t stand California politics and what I have watched them do to this state. I apologize to Idaho in advance for contributing to rising housing prices. At least I will be voting the right way once I’m there.
I’m a poor seattle citizen, grew up in Washington all my life . For 27 years now , I see all the changes and it’s horrible . Seattle used too feel safe and I see things purposely done . This poor come beautiful state is turning to Chicago . Really trashy and poorly run city . We really need a red state .
well, y'all let Amazon and Microsoft in, right? Now you are a big city with really big city wealth too. And no state income tax. Seattle needs a mayor like Chicago's Richard M Daley. Don't freaking knock what you don't know. Chicago, under his admin, became Disneyland. Greatest place in the country to live in at that time. Seattle has great days ahead of it because it has assets and wealth. Not very many cities in this country can prove that with their financials.
I fell in love with Seattle when I visited but was quickly harassed by homeless and was shocked at how run down it was and how rude many were. Even LA felt safer. I knew then it was a recent problem, but I got the vibe that a couple decades ago it was a hell of a great place.
The more hand outs, subsidies, rent control, NEEDLES, there are the worse the problems will get. Lower the bar for accepted human behavior, and you have set the new standard. Tough love is the answer. The sooner this country figures it out, the better off we all will be. Politicians, weak, and lazy people are to blame.
Yo some states in the lower area more towards Mexico and Texas I assume any where the cartel has leaked too...they just hand out the fix the users need at like a "rehabilitate the needy " walk in , walk out thing and they can do it atleast once a day . That isn't keeping the cycle going I don't know what is?
Hard times create strong men. Strong men create good times. Good times create weak men. And, weak men create hard times. G. Michael Hopf, Those Who Remain (The New World #7)
So, not pursuing/investigating crimes leads to a drop in the reporting of those crimes. You need only be a working citizen in these cities to know that crime is up.
That is why I live out in the sticks you see my woman and the kid and the dogs and me. I can plow a field all day long and catch some walleye from dusk till dawn. I got my shotgun rifle and my four wheel drive and country folks will survive. My Montra I live it and breath it everyday.
@@stardust164 well of course it is. His soft on crime policies. It's common sense and a real person with two eyes can see it clearly. Obviously you are closing your eyes to it.
Even going straight thru Portland, the problems spill onto the freeway. YUK all over the place. Fuel up before going near Portland so you don't have to exit into Portland.
I use to live in a podunk town in Conservative middle America.. then moved to Seattle.. I feel just as safe here as I did there. "Liberal cities are bad".. hate America Focker?
My husband was just informed that he might have 2 big job in DC and in New York the money is great and I mean great, more money than we making 2 months, on one of these jobs but I'm terrified and I don't think it's worth it and I don't want him to do it. We haven't fully decided yet , but the more and more time goes on and more more we talk about it the more we are leaning to hell no
With these people, they leave because of the danger and they don’t like it, but then they vote for the same thing. The problem is the mind set of people they say they wake up but doing the same thing by voting for the same thing they don’t like.
maybe not. up here in Oregon, people moved from california to here due to the relative cheapness of housing back in the day. And still doing it. Has nothing to do with politics, so they do bring that here, but those moving due to bad politics etc are moving elsewhere. Not to Oregon, another ultra stupidly politically brainless corrupt government state. Not to WA either. These states seem similar in mindset to them so they move here for cheaper housing AND liberal idiocy. They aren't moving to our rural areas, usually, but to the liberal big cities.
Why would blue state refugees move to a red state and then vote for politicians who would support the same policies that they were trying to escape? Are left wingers that F--ING stupid!?
@Visualpro - - People moving from bastions of liberalism should by required by law to take tests proving that they will not bring their Bizarro World philosophy with them. 😉
I was living in Seattle for the past five years. When President Trump was elected everyone lost their minds and it was the most frightening thing I ever experienced. I’ve never seen an entire community think one way. Ever. I saw COVID start in Seattle. I evacuated my team when the George Floyd riots started and I experienced the CHAZ/CHOP. It was hell. I moved two weeks to Grand Rapids, MI and have been comfortable ever since :)
My friend was violently assaulted and showed up at my friends place covered in blood with a cracked skull the night Obama was elected back in 08. He was drinking at a bar and most of mentioned to someone that he didn't vote for Obama and there was a group of people screaming at him in the bar. The next day he thought he had gotten hit by a car as his entire body was in pain and was soaking in blood. The only reason I know he was attacked by a mob is because he called me during it and said these guys are all insane here before it happened. Seattle has always had a violent mob mentality and regular people will attack you if you express any opinions different than theirs. I'm so glad I moved away in 2010.
I lived and worked in Seattle for 25 years. I moved to Texas last summer. Best decision I've ever made. Seattle is ABSOLUTELY NOT SAFE. And I say that as a veteran with 3 Gulf tours, and 2 back to back tours in Mogadishu. Do not be confused by these politicians who always look at the bright side. They are in a deep state of denial. Go out there and see with your own eyes. Get out while you still can. Protect yourself and your family at all costs.
I was born and raised here in Texas now 51. I’m praying a lot all the time our state never run by Democrat. I’m praying democrats here in Dallas get voted out. I don’t miss any elections no matter how small. I’m praying every single that Governor Abbott gets re-elected🙏🙏🙏 I prayed everyday for an entire year he would primary.
I lived in western Washington north of Seattle from 1982 to 2019. During this period I watched the constant deterioration of a once beautiful city, increased crime and the constant expansion of the homeless population. The local and state governments raised taxes every year even after referendums voted in by the people to lower taxes. Instead of the state government using the inflated taxes the government became increasingly involved in the lives of the average citizen through restrictions and regulations. My wife and I moved to a free State in October of 2019. I hate what the left is doing to Washington, Oregon and California.
now, explain to the folks that WA doesn't have an income tax. So, which taxes are you talking about? The state is heavily dependent upon sales tax collections. That's should be a big enough hint to you.
“Men fight for liberty and win it with hard knocks. Their children, brought up easy, let it slip away again, poor fools. And their grandchildren are once more slaves.” -D.H. Lawrence.
'seattle voters want'...all society voters want... wanting is suffering...more voters invite more political corruption...society is the birthplace of war and slavery...after tons of societies and yet folks still expect something less insane....amazing!
I used to go to Seattle regularly since I was 16 years old, always enjoyed it and felt pretty safe even late at night. Last time I was there I felt lucky to be alive when I left.
Just like Detroit was once the Paris of the Midwest, Seattle was once America’s most livable city. Some historian should match the frequency of rhetorical catchphrases spouted out by activists at city council meetings with crime rates and population growth. People should have a graph that indicates when peak stupidity for any city has been reached.
When I retired I left Detroit. The only reason I put up with it was needed a 17 MPG 4 wheel drive to get to work( that is Highway MPG). Snow days were not an option for me with a 23 mile drive one way. A lot of my co-workers drove 30 miles one way. I also did not have children living at home with me. Now I live 30 miles outside the city. I remember coming back to Detroit from San Diego in 1985(NavSta SD). Michigan Avenue in Detroit looked like there had been a war there. There was no sign needed to tell you you were in Dearborn. Dearborn looked the same as it always has looked. Except for the signs in a alphabet I can't read. Also no good Italian restaurants East of Telegraph.
I need to get out of Seattle. Homelessness, dumbing down in our schools and forced single-file driving on our former well-flowing arterials, mandatory tight turning lanes everywhere, bus-only lanes. Seattle is SO STUPID now!!! My friend was stabbed inside his gf’s building after a minor altercation. 3 people shot and killed near my area in the past year- it’s lame.
I left 22 years ago, saw the signs of liberalism ruining things, also the rain back then and being cold 9 months out of the year, it was enough for me to move to Florida. Much happier here.
Oh, get out.. there are safer places in this state. Take care. Yes, you may not get as much money, but it is cheaper to live away from the cities. I am so grateful we moved when we did.
2022: "We're on the way to make Seattle one of the safest cities" 2023: "We made being homeless easier, gave addicts a place to use, lessened sentences and disarmed the victims. I don't understand why all that didn't work!"
@link4566 Not really the point I was trying to make, but my brief stint with homelessness (two years) basically amounted to stuffing my face with cedar-smoked trout and rabbit morchella in a hammock on various lake shores while I reflected on how shitty my life as a wage-slave was. I'd imagine that it'd be a lot more difficult to be a drug addict living on city streets, but I didn't do that so I wouldn't know. The point of my post however, is that these liberal-ran cities keep implementing policies that attract more of those types of homeless people and various other criminals, while not only making it more difficult for honest law-abiding people to be safe and secure in their homes and of their properties, but also doing so at the financial expense of those law-abiding persons under the guise of it being for resident benefit, when in reality their sole motivation is the kick-backs they receive from those tax-payer funded organizations.
Most... NOT ALL... Homeless CHOOSE their way of life due to their desire to be free of societal norms and their disdain of rules and authority. This is why most complexes dedicated to the homeless remain largely vacant because curfews, no littering rules, and no drug policies are counter to their lifestyle.
i think you forgot quite a bit such as the negative impact of a military industrial based economy and legalization of monopoly of big pharma selling imitation medicine while making natural occuring medicines illegal. but then if government even wanted to fix everything right away they would all have to go home and do real work
Seattle used to be a lovely place. Yes a whole lot of folks but anymore where I used to live, it is totally not safe at all. No desire to ever go there again.
A lot of cities are extremely dangerous. I lived in Kalamazoo for 10 years ( very nice city) and took several extended weekend trips to Chicago and had such a great time there. It’s even dangerous to be on the Dan Ryan ( highway). I always stayed in Lincoln park and a couple times I took a jog on my sleepless nights all the way to buckingham fountain and back also out a bit late a couple other nights at the pub and walked everywhere. Never in danger. It’s awful now. Some neighborhoods have even hired private security. Very sad.
I wouldn’t move to a liberal city like Seattle, San Francisco, or New York if they paid all my bills and a handsome income on top of that. This is what happens in democratic run cities especially when you defund the police. Thank you but no thank you, I’m fine right where I am. I do feel very badly for the people that live in these cities but they pretty much brought it on themselves.
I was stationed at NAS Whidbey Island from 2004-2009 and used to go to Seattle frequently. It's really sad and shocking at how much the city has changed in 13 years. 😕
Not sure what you mean, but are you a cisgender white man who still chooses to get all your information from mainstream big business funded extremist propaganda channels like this and cnn, like a sheep?
While I sympathize with the people leaving these cities, they're the voters that created the mess and I wish they'd leave their liberal, crap politics in the cities they're fleeing.
@Sndjzkzk!!! Absolutely, my good man, there’ve been republicans mixed with folks that have left those ‘blue’ states. I was speaking in terms of generalities, of course -my bad but those aren’t the folks that political issue is taken with. In truth, sympathy is given. It’s the others! And they carry the same political disease they infected upon their states -progressive social liberalism. They could have voted for a different outcome but didn't. Instead, they rode that pony to it dropped. You can study these effects by examining places like Austin, Texas or the state of Florida or Colorado. Why heck, you can look at California of 1975 overlayed with California of 2022. We can see the political trauma left on these places. I point to the Northerners moving to the Southeast that are having the same effect as Californians moving to Idaho, Arizona, Montana and Texas. Let’s be real here, man. These folks aren’t moving to Chicago, Baltimore, Philadelphia or St Louis. Nobody gets out of bed in their home of New York City and thinks tomorrow I'll move to Clovis, New Mexico or Dearborn, Michigan. In the words of the Great Joe Biden, “C,mon, man”. I understand some of this is a political effort to change the voting-block of a state in an effort to capture those electoral votes. This is a very complex subject matter. Cheers.
I agree with your sentiments but keep in mind that some of us have become voiceless and powerless voters. I live in a decent city in OC and am trying to figure out how to fight this trend, short of leaving.
I lived in Seattle '78-82 and it was safe and clean. I lived in Portland 1982-2017, watched the downtown core get revitalized and gentrified. I enjoyed the light rail and oftentimes went to eat, watch a game, or Saturday market and never felt unsafe. The downtown has been ruined, once thriving storefronts boarded up, people defecating in the streets and sidewalks, and "homeless" destroying decades of revitalization. As a lifelong PNWer, at 57 years of age I couldn't take the nonsense anymore. Packed up and left my home, my onced loved city destroyed by parasites.
Y’all keep blaming the homeless like it’s not our entire lifestyle that’s leading to this. Most homeless customers are ironically IN HOMES. Rent and Mortgage does not mean you OWN your living space. Until the root of the problem is handled… this WILL be you.
I live on the east side, near Seattle. Seattle is a disaster. About 1/3rd of the Seattle police department has quit. It's not safe. On the bright side, the new mayor is cracking down on some of the more egregious crime, and Seattle actually elected a Republican city attorney. The new city attorney has made a big difference and is prosecuting crimes again. Will it be enough? I don't know, but it is at least a good sign.
Not as long as the psychopaths like Sawant, Gonzalez, Juarez, Herbold, and Morales stay in office. The ones who think shoplifting is justified; the ones who think it is cruel to insist that people trashing the city not be allowed to continue trashing it; the ones who sit on their thrones in the council chambers and look down on us peons and serfs like the despots they are.
@@downtime86stars17 Exactly! They say they are survival crimes but then why do we have all the services, food banks and necessities available to them? they know many of these people are drug addicts and struggle with mental health but because of civil rights, they will not require them to get help. And that is why we have this problem. They know it and they don’t care. So when these people go off and hit people over the head with a baseball bat or stab someone, it’s just a part of life we have to accept according to the Seattle city council. And lately I’ve heard they have taken to throwing bicycles and bricks onto the I-5 and I assume that’s because there is an encampment very near the highway. Never mind the fires and the theft...By the way, the good taxpayers of Seattle paid upwards of 150,000 for a daycare to provide one council member daycare for her kid. Must be nice! And the ridiculous fact that Herbold lives in North Bend and is out of touch with her district... unless she needs a favor from the police chief. You honestly cannot make this stuff up. These Marxist fools have destroyed the city and people need to learn from this. City councils have way too much power when you combine it with the DOJ.
People moving into a new community or state should be required to have at least 6 years residency to vote in city elections and 8 years residency to vote in state elections. Transients obviously shouldn't have much say in the way the real locals live.
I have to ask out of curiosity but Which type of liberals do you mean? There are conservative liberals, right liberals, established liberals, progressive liberals etc etc. It’s strange how many Americans don’t understand what liberal means. By definition you’re liberal, unless you hate democracy. Liberal- 1. willing to respect or accept behavior or opinions different from one's own; open to new ideas. 2. relating to or denoting a political and social philosophy that promotes individual rights, civil liberties, democracy, and free enterprise. Also your “left” are actually more center right. Not even AOC is truly left. Although left-wing politics came to the United States in the 19th century, there are no major left-wing political parties in the United States. Despite existing left-wing factions within the Democratic Party, as well as minor third parties such as the Green Party, Communist Party, Party for Socialism and Liberation, Workers World Party, Socialist Party, and American Solidarity Party (a Christian democratic party leaning left on economics), none of the parties have ever won a seat in congress. Why is the political spectrum so hard for you guys to understand? Not an attack but a serious question I really want to know.
My husband and I drove to Seattle and we weren't there longer then 20 minutes before getting back on the freeway and going back south. The traffic was a nightmare a lot of people homeless drugs trash it didn't feel friendly but unsafe and it was pretty scary and this was during the day
Unfortunately there’s too much homelessness is places like Seattle, San Francisco and LA to ever fix it with hotels or trailers because more will just show up and take their place!! It’s the bad Democratic policies that are to blame and there’s no chance that those will be changed !! 🙄🤷🏻♂️
We have a homeless population in my small town , with plenty of drugs and booze , I took a ride in my boat and found tents ,blankets ,bags, ect,,, coming down the river I live on ,,,some people must have destroyed a campsite up stream , but now all the trash is washing up in my backyard,,I feel bad for these people and nothing is getting done , but it's also creating big problems for my town , I can't walk barefoot in my own backyard without worrying about stepping on needles,, FJB ,,
I'm so glad I got out of the west coast. Those of my "friends" who stayed behind, they're in absolute denial about the problems of the area. They just ignore it, and pretend it isn't happening.
Sad. Born and raised in Kitsap County. Great place to grow up. Of course, that was in the 70's and early 80's. Well, vote the same way for 40 years ..... This is what you get.
@@DTWExtreme Just left Olalla sold my house I knew this would happen. Im going a fishing trip around the nice places of the US for about 4 years or at least dummy is out of office.
I fled SF 10 years ago when Newsom messed it up beyond recognition. Now I live in a red county. And on top of that, I'm Mexican American- I never felt so welcomed in amy place before now. Logical, common sense people that build roots and a sense of community should be fundamental to every American family.
After living in Seattle for 61years, basically born and raised there, I left 2 years ago when I finally couldn't take it anymore. Seeing my city turn into the crime Haven and drug Haven that it has become, and the city politicians not caring to do a thing about it. In fact even almost encouraging it by their actions I finally knew it was time to leave. I don't regret leaving Seattle one bit. I stayed in Washington but live in a much more conservative area. Liberalism kills cities, Seattle is proof of that.
I did the same with Portland in Oregon but it might not have been far enough away. Laws here still make everything worse. My husband works in a highly regulated field that has nothing to do with crime or homelessness, but the governing body still made of halfwit libs. He’s constantly putting out their fires. If it ever gets too bad we’re probably going to Arizona like everyone else. FYI he was always a conservative even in Portland, it was just possible to live there once. Just because you vote doesn’t mean they’re going to count it…
@@sonialinsey8083 I love the way you complain but can't actually come up with a specific thing you're complaining about that's how you know you don't know what you're talking about you can't even talk about it just whine and cry about things you don't understand and stats that disagree with you
I honestly don't think HOUSING is the MAIN issue, they need to ADDRESS & HANDLE the DRUG USE FIRST, the actual HOUSING is a SYMPTOM & CONSEQUENCE of the DRUG USE. UNFORTUNATELY SOMEONE IS PROFITTING off the HOMELESS SITUATION or it wouldn't be ALLOWED to CONTINUE..
I heard a lot of people that left CA moved to the nearby states of OR and WA, which were Republican at the time. The problem is, they took their politics with them, this is the result. What’s the definition of insanity?? Doing the same thing over and over and expecting a different result. Lesson here is: VOTE REPUBLICAN!!!
I don't know what the solution to the homeless is but I know providing free anything is just going to just going to encourage more to come and make your situation worse.
I'm all for providing them a safe place to sleep, facilities to clean up and access to internet so they can look for work; many of them are just in a hard spot in their lives and want to get back on their feet. It just can't be so nice that their quality of life is better on wellfare than if they get a job.
True. This was done in NJ in New Brunswick, back in the 1970s. The city (Democrat run) built high rises for the low income and poor, ( mostly black tennants)for lower income folks. Some drug addicted and such. In less than 5 years....BRAND NEW APARTMENT buildings became SLUMS. The tenants threw their garbage everywhere, NEVER PICKED UP after themselves. They broke windows, doors, and put holes in the walls. And the buildings QUICKLY became slum drug havens. Why? Also, what's been WRONG WITH PEOPLE WHO HAVE BABIES? Can't mothers and fathers TEACH THEIR CHILDREN to "PICK UP" after themselves, after THEY CLEAN UP AFTER THEMSELVES.....FIRST? It's called personal RESPONSIBILITY people. WHEN is THIS GOING TO BE APPLIED TO EVERYONE? All throughout the centuries there have been poor people. At the beginning of the 20th century, MANY POOR PEOPLE CAME FROM EUROPE. (No money, dirt poor.) I KNEW MANY of their families in NJ. They were POOR, but they kept their small little apartments CLEAN, and picked up of any and all trash. Inside AND OUTSIDE the apartments. They took PRIDE in how their places looked. They were poor, but they were CLEAN.. Why DO SOME FOLKS THINK BEING A SLOB IS okay? And isnjust a part of their LIFESTYLE? IT'S NOT.....IT'S JUST BEING A SLOB. And you don't get to cry "victim", if you can't even take care of something sma ll that you have. You'll NEVER take care of a nice house, if given the chance. And, then get angry, if someone has a nice CLEAN house. Sorry, it doesn't WORK THAT WAY. What's the mindset here? I don't get it. Someone explain that to me. This is NO ONES "FAULT", EXCEPT THE ONE DOING IT. So laying BLAME on others, on this topic isn't going to work. My daughter and I lived in an apartment in Macon, GA, and were walking the dog. A car with two women and several kids in the back were driving in the parking lot. They all had McDonald's food. Then the mothers and kids threw ALL the trash OUT THE WINDOWS, into the parking lot, and entire BUNCH of it landed all around our feet and all over the place. SHAME ON PARENTS WHO ALLOW LITTERING AND TRASHING. You're NOT DOING YOUR JOBS. That's called failing, as a parent.
"Seattle is on a trajectory to be one of the safest cities in America." This mayor does not understand what a "trajectory" is, or how the analogy he's using (comparing civic changes with ballistic motion) works.
A city near me tried to get the homeless into hotels and rooms only to find the homeless person destroyed the room. They refused to use the bathroom facilities, they did not take care of their trash. They lived just like they did out in the elements. That city gave up on it.
That's disgusting, needle watch on the way to and from school 😪 there shouldn't be this level of homelessness these days but it just gets worse, it will be like THE PURGE soon
Does anyone out there STILL not understand why so many of the Founding Fathers warned U.S. "Do Not allow party systems to form in our Halls of Governance." George Washington himself said, "Specifically a two party system will tear the country apart."
That's not what his address was about. He is talking about cliques, associations, factions, small groups, in league with others. When you read the whole farewell, it's a warning against Corporatism at least what that would be today. Corporations. Every time you see the Washington quote it starts with the following "(Political parties)", in other words, the writer of that particular article is putting words in Washington's mouth. I encourage you to read the entire farewell. This is a myth propagated by those who are against the constitution not for it. There are issues with the two parties, but it's more about corporate influence. And it is infecting both parties. The three branches buying stock using insider knowledge, family members/friends employed by organizations that are affiliated with decisions the three branches are making, the length of time they spend in Washington. It isn't conservative and liberal beliefs that are at issue. It's the political machine. Local has less of an issue. But the founders knew the concept. Power corrupts, absolute power, corrupts absolutely.
@@angelagriffin5130 I dont know how true this is, but I read somewhere that during those days, corporations werent really allowed. A business had to be owned by someone or some ones and they were personally liable for that businesses activities
"Seattle is on a trajectory to be one of the safest cities in the US." Not from what we hear out in the real world. Seattle has become extremely dangerous.
They think that because people are no longer wasting their time reporting crime, that the crime rate is dropping. LOL! I used to walk around Seattle at night alone and unarmed during the 90s with no worries..No way I'd attempt that nowadays.
@@drewpknutz1410 spot on. Residents have given up reporting. Why bother? When LE arrests someone they get instantly released and no charges are filed. Poof. Magic. Crime has “declined”. All the liberals/communists can pat each other on the back…
We fled Louisville who surpassed Chicago in per-capita crime. This man is 100% correct. No child should have to grow up in these environments. Do whatever it takes to get your family out.
People need to wake up all this stuff that's going on is on purpose.
Exactly 💯
I think that too; it's being done on purpose. The rich can always live where it's safe!
Cloward -Piven Strategy.
When you have real estate investors big enough to control markets, things like this can be on purpose. Think NYC in the '70's. Step one: turn it to sh!t. Step two: Gentrification. Are Seattle real estate values declining yet?
Exactly why is the homeless population surging? It's definitely being done on purpose.
Taking the side of criminals and ignoring victims is the liberal way.
It’s end is failure.
@@Coleman77 Liberalism is the party of failure!
AMEN/TRUE the way it's ALWAYS BEEN! but it's getting even more insane!
@@Coleman77 for who? could you be more UNCLEAR?!
exactly
As a truck driver of more than 20 years, I have seen horrific changes in Seattle, and all the other big cities. I will not walk around anymore in Seattle. Very sad.
Denver as well.
Homelessness started when Biden was elected
Even in 1999 I lived and worked downtown. I felt safe walking the streets coming home from my job. Not anymore!! It's just not safe. The inmates are running the asylu.
Being a truck driver for more than 20 years is completely irrelevant.
@@2SecondsAgo Yep, Vive les Fabulous Four de Seattle, vive le Grunge. Cheers from France. 🎸🎙💀 🎶
"I'm going to make sure Seattle is one of the safest cities in the country"
Don't say you're going to do something. Do it, and say you've done it.
Safe for homeless people.
Pa always used to say,
"Two kinds of people. Those that do, and those that talk. Folks almost never do both."
This guy is nothing but hot air.
I believe you
According to Safe Wise it is not even in the top 100.
Maybe you should actually look up the real crime rate in Seattle it's not very high at all most Republican cities and significantly higher but those are facts and Fox News people are allergic to facts
They cant even lie well
The safest city in the country????
Well if u are only talking about NYC, Philadelphia, Chicago, LA, Oakland, San Francisco, Sacramento, Louisville, just to name a few , all democrats cities.
What does California, Illinois, New York and all the major cities in America have in common? They have the highest homeless population and are all run by Democrats. Democrats have marketed themselves as the party for the poor. Therefore, the best way to stay in power is to create policies that create more and more poor people.
The best example is California, known as the Golden State, once gave us Ronald Reagan and was the envy of the states. Today, California has the highest concentration of homelessness and welfare of any state in the country with Democrats in full control of every major political office as well as every major city including Los Angeles and San Francisco. Republicans are ignored as Democrats force policies that create more poverty and homelessness including:
Rent Control: In theory it sounds good to prevent rent from increasing on poor; but multiple studies show it causes housing shortages that reduce the number of low-income people who can live in a city while raising the demand for housing. Further, it deters new housing construction and worsens the homelessness problem creating more homelessness than homes available.
Conservatives really think their crap doesn't stink? "Liberals bad, conservatives good".. only children believe this.
@@r32guy10 exactly here in stockton,ca the cops cant really do much about the homeless situation here. They just clean up the homeless incampanents and they'll just move back and put trash everywhere. A bunch of drugged out rapest who love being homeless and cause a lot of fires thru out the city that get out of control. Enough of newman the homeless need to moved somewhere and if they have mental problems that need to be resolved.
@@r32guy10 They are proof that conservatives are in love with themselves and think they should have control of everyone?
@@r32guy10 So, you’re saying that cities with higher populations of people also have a higher population of homeless people compared to cities with lower populations. Who could have ever imagined that? You people go out of your way to be stupid.
My son lived outside of and worked in Seattle for Boeing along with his father In-law. Well he left a good job to go fight the war on terror, when he came back it had become so WOKE they all moved to Arizona. He live's in the desert and love's it. Unfortunately the Phoenix area has had thousand's move in from Commiefornia and it too has gotten worse. All of these Democratic cities are a mess, but that's Putin's fault. ( Lol )
Yep. Putin's fault...😆😆😆😆
That's funny I call it Calimexico
No it was woke long before the war on terror.
@@francismarion4450 I bet you didn't know what Woke was before 2015!
The problems Seattle is having was in the making since 2000 and even a few years before and they are now blaming Putin? That's rich of them.
I left 2 years ago, not only for the obvious decline in safety but got so tired of dealing with people who refused to recognize there was a problem. Complain and they would look at you as if you were the problem. It breaks my heart that it's allowed and very concerned that the laisse faire attitude will spread outside these urban cesspools.
Your friends in Seattle are progressive do nothings. Also known as Marxists and you’re better for leaving there.
You only hope that those who are leaving Seattle, Los Angeles and other Liberal cesspools, aren't bringing that Liberal Thinking that got those places to where they are at now. Don't Seattle our Texas.
you should look into the actual crime rates of democratic and Republic large cities. it's population density then increases crime not liberalism. Republican large metropolises have higher crime rates
As long as you all keep fleeing your self created issues, there will be that spread
@@darkeen42 Do you have facts?
That fact that he couldn’t simply answer with a ‘yes,’ tells you all you need to know.
yeah but theres still a chance if theres a new mayor
The fact that you don't understand that honest answers are never just simply yes or no disturbs me
@@darkeen42 The honest answer is that there are no safe cities. The question was stupid. The mayor should have said that all cities have crime and that they are working to reduce the crime in their city. People are stupid and just want to "feel" safe versus realizing that they are really just playing a game with odds and that the "safe" cities just have lower odds that people will run into trouble. Bad people are all over and bad things can happen at any time, even in places where most people may be good. The best people will find is a relatively safe city where the odds of being a victim of crime are lower.
@@CGT80 nowhere is safe and if you stop and think about it for a second crime in the city isn't necessarily particularly higher it's just hard to commit crimes when there's nobody around you like in a rural setting. But yes you keep whining about the big scary world just don't be surprised when everybody laughs at you for being whiny little punk. But still the highest crime regions are Republican that is undeniable. If cities were the problem you think the highest crime state would be one with many large cities instead of the one it is Mississippi Mississippi has the highest crime rate in the country why do you think that is?
DA ,JUDGES, GOVERNOR ,SHOULD BE HELD ACCOUNTABLE
along with he oligarchs pulling their strings eh...
Fire the lot of them, and start over.
all this is what " an unjust society does. bless are the poors 🙏
A "Tale of two city's"type of cleansing!. REALLY Hold them accountable!
I think the citizenry is to blame for voting in these people. And for those appointed, for not voicing strong opposition. The general public needs to be accountable for themselves. They are complicit.
He is right Seattle is out of control!! It’s horrible ! That’s what happens when you let criminals do whatever they want with a slap on the hand !!
I remember a friend moving to Seattle and I envied him. But that was 20 years ago. Things went to hell fast.
You forgot one word:
"This is what happens when you let BLACK..... do whatever they want to do.....". Other LIGHTER criminals are still held to the same standards....or punished more severely to reduce the "disparity".
Seattle actually has a significantly lower crime rate than the majority of the cities in Republican states. Their property values are still going up indicating people are moving to Seattle not from Seattle. This all takes 3 minutes of research but apparently facts don't matter to you you just prefer the b******* f**** excuse even though they open the admittent court only nonsensible people believe them
@@cybervigilante Yes, my husband and I went on vacation there on our motorcycle when we were in our twenties....that was 45 years ago. I wanted to move there. See o glad we didn't.
Fought for five years. I’m done.
Seattle gets what it voted for
I’m done being called racist to stand up for folks like you
Bye bye
I moved away from Seattle in 2016 because I was warned in 2012 that it was going to get very crazy, starting in 2020. That warning was 100% accurate. I'm so glad I believed it and acted on it.
I fell in love with Seattle back in 1970 when I first moved there. It was a vibrant, clean, low crime, working class city in a beautiful natural setting with inexpensive rents.
50 years of liberal politics has destroyed all that. It breaks my heart.
BTW, the only reason sexual assault reports are down is because they no longer investigate them! So why bother to report it? It's always been underreported anyway.
Both of my parents have passed. I recently came across dozens of postcards they collected in 1954 while traveling from Jersey to Texas. What a beautiful country it WAS!!! Clean! New! Prosperous! Great Infrastructure!
What's destroyed crime is low property values are high stop believing Fox lies
absolutely
@@darkeen42 where do you live?
As of 2020 the disease has infected Spokane as well.
"Tolerance will reach such a level that intelligent people will be banned from thinking so as not to offend the imbeciles." - Fyodor Dostoevsky
Wow, this is the best, and scariest prediction ever
Before - Dostoevsky . Now - National Inquirer. Sigh. I choose to offend!
As people like this man leave, Seattle will only be populated by people who are happy to live in a place like this. Let's hope that he and the other people fleeing Seattle don't bring Seattle politics with them.
I live in one of the reddest states in the nation and it sends shivers down my spine when a customer comes in my work and says "We just moved here from the West coast" One of the other cities near here has a sign at the edge of town that says "Don't California our city"
I cringe every time I see out of state plates. It's annoying to see so many, especially if they are moving here!
i do think those 'seattle politics' as you call them were imported from the 'gates of hell' district.
@@trans-octopusspacealien8883 Saw a plate from Hawaii here in Houston last weekend. They're shipping them in from across the water now. The Kalifornians are bad enough, now we're getting woke islanders :/. And yes, a "Republican" Kalifornian is nothing more than a moderate Democrat in the rest of the states.
Salt Lake City has already become liberal because of California implants. In 2020, when the Democratic mayor implemented the mask mandate, I moved out immediately!
Leaving Seattle is one thing. Taking those liberal ideals elsewhere, that's the problem!
Nobody likes living in liberal states so they move where people are thriving - like Texas.
Keep your liberal views out of our law and order. 😤
Maybe look into the actual numbers and you will see many places are worse most of them Republican. Stop trusting Fox do 30 seconds of verifying to prove to yourself they are full of s***
Agree 100%
Same with people "fleeing" L.A and New York. They don't want to live like that but refuse to acknowledge the problem.
I really think most of the people that leave are conservatives. I live in a liberal area and if I ever moved it would be to get away from the liberal nonsense.
Seattle? Washington state? Normal? By no rational ideology is it normal. That guy spoke absolute truth!
Normal? Normality is what a child needs to feel secure. Normal is fake plastic boring.
I live in Vancouver USA It's still pretty nice, but lots of people have figured out were still kind Pacific Northwest people and taking advantage.
Liberalism is a mental disorder!
This is your new normal and reality..Welcome to the leftist dystopia..
@Debunkers Studio, do you feel these places are under spiritual warfare.
He wasn't •asked• about the "trajectory"; he was asked about the •current• level of violence in Seattle.
Politicians must have to learn how to speak "dodge-the-question" before running for office, b/c they're all SO good at it. 🙄
"Trajectory for x" really means nothing.
The current level of violence in Seattle is still significantly lower than most Republican cities. Just look at the most violent cities in America Seattle isn't even on the list. Some Republican conservative strongholds are definitely way up at the top of the list. You're a lump of cold calling the snowball black
I went to Seattle a few years ago. It was disgusting. Tents and homeless everywhere, the streets were disgusting, and the people were just rude. I told my mom I never want to visit again, and we haven’t since.
Who the fukk cares?
Go clean your room or mami will get angry.
So how do these homeless people survive the winter months? Someone must be bringing them inside when it’s 40 below outside?
@@alphagt62 They go to Alaska where it's only -25. Duh.
@Lawrence CarverHippies and ganga, yes. Meth - as now?
I’m from Seattle. The place is disgusting and unrecognizable in the last 2.5 years. The city starts to look like Commiefornia.
Any man who says Seattle is safe needs to be locked up or under doctor's care .
Locking people up for saying things. That doesn’t sound very normal or safe. 🤔
Exactly that was hilarious.
That’s like saying New York, Philadelphia, Chicago and any city in California are safe.
asians are being attacked by Balck people and wokie rainbow hair people.
@@huemann7637 go live there, how long before you change your mind.
Someone needs to inform the Seattle Mayor that crime getting worse in other cities does not make your city safer. That's simply not how it works.
No but it does mean there's no reason to complain about Seattle who is not having a crime rate does not have unusually high crime rates. He's trying to explain to you you are being lied to.
@@darkeen42
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The Mayor aint stupid. He knows what he s doing. He did this on putposes
@@jennytafoya261 or Fox News is just lying to you and Seattle is actually way down the list on most of those aspects boxes complaining about looking to the numbers stop f****** just mindlessly believing Fox
@@beccagee5905 you can't even manage words. Grow up
“Seattle is on a trajectory to be one of the safest cities in this country.”
Yeah. And I’m Shaquille O’Neal.
Maybe the other cities are going down faster so his statement may be true 😖
It's an asymptotic trajectory....
Are we talking rocket ships or Crime statistics?
Yo Shaq. When is Shaqfu 3 coming out?
If you read between the lines he actually said "safest DEMOCRAT cities in this country" and that ain't saying much at all... ;)
😂
That clip of Seattle mayor is the perfect example of a politician lying.
I love your profile picture. Just had to say that. Have a lovely weekend.
I started watching and then remembered I don't care about Seattle one bit.
@@Lordradost Thank you! I was a cat mom until my baby boy Blazé, the cat, relocated with my baby girl.
Yeah that mayor seemed as if something was wrong with him.
Give Bruce Harrell a chance. local boy that remembers the Seattle he grew up in was different. Much different that the previous mayor.
I fled Seattle two years ago for the same reason. We really used the downtown but couldn’t any longer. It isn’t safe. The city council knows this but lies about it. After my husband was chased by a man with a machete and my teens saw a dead guy in Cap. Hill, naked people walking aimlessly and doing drugs, we said enough. Very high taxes, horrid traffic, outrageous real estate, no police, 20 % hike in violent crime and taxpayers are the bad guys. Hard pass. They can have it.
This is going on all over not on media so stupid AF Americas don't know how bad it is
F..k Escape from N.Y. and Escape from L.A. the whole dammed west coast states need to be walled off and kept that way. To bad, used to be beautiful but with all the fires they are starting, probably nothing left.
I see there were 2 comments under your comment that good ol censortube must have deleted. I'll be surprised if they don't delete my comment as well. Seattle hasn't gotten its nickname of Freeattle for nothing. Democratic, liberal policy....."if u give it to them, they will come"🤦🏼♂️
I would love to see a Democrat try and argue this lol. Love how descriptive it is. Glad you saw greater opportunity for you and your kids
@@dustinmyers5559 Thank you! We actually gave up a lot to make this change but we put our family first instead of money. It was the best decision!
I'm sorry. My biggest fear is that these liberals move and vote the same way. I don't want any as neighbors. Just being honest....you get what you vote for.
Right, most of them are not smart enough to connect their voting record to the difficulties caused as a direct result.
Yup.. fear.. That's what Fox News do to you.. got you fearing everything that isn't the bible.
Nobody wants them.
What does California, Illinois, New York and all the major cities in America have in common? They have the highest homeless population and are all run by Democrats. Democrats have marketed themselves as the party for the poor. Therefore, the best way to stay in power is to create policies that create more and more poor people.
The best example is California, known as the Golden State, once gave us Ronald Reagan and was the envy of the states. Today, California has the highest concentration of homelessness and welfare of any state in the country with Democrats in full control of every major political office as well as every major city including Los Angeles and San Francisco. Republicans are ignored as Democrats force policies that create more poverty and homelessness including:
Rent Control: In theory it sounds good to prevent rent from increasing on poor; but multiple studies show it causes housing shortages that reduce the number of low-income people who can live in a city while raising the demand for housing. Further, it deters new housing construction and worsens the homelessness problem creating more homelessness than homes available.
I grew up in Oregon and that's exactly what happened when California moved north
Giving someone a room doesn't address why they became homeless. That's like when the military gives everyone Ibuprofen to solve all medical ailments.
right!!!!
Well, giving them a room is a start.
@@annabelle3510 Or a jail cell.
I worked for the local Sheriff in King County, where Seattle is located. My career spanned 26+ years, with 22 in King County; patrol, plain clothes detective and finally, patrol supervisor. When I began in 1999 Seattle PD had about 1700 sworn. They currently have less then 900. The others retired or flat out quit due to the active, rabid anti police ideology of the city…it’s politicians and residents. SPD is unable to hire enough QUALIFIED candidates, despite lowering the hiring standards AND being among the highest paid rank & file in the region. No amount of money will convince officers to stay or hire on. Why would anyone? They know they get zero support and will be vilified for doing their jobs. Combine that with a useless, social justice county prosecutor and a rabid, anti- police county executive and city council and you have the root causes of this mess. Once marijuana was legalized, the problems only worsened. Drug users flocked there and were rewarded. The city spends hundred’s of millions per year and the junkies just multiply. The Homeless Industrial Complex is alive and well, with zero accountability. The city is awash in tents, tarps, garbage, stolen property, syringes, graffiti, boarded up businesses…it’s truly dystopian.
Dystopian city: a city run by leftists
Leftists call evil good, darkness light, lies truth, slavery freedom and dystopia utopia.
Thanks for sharing.
Is marijuana the problem though? Never heard of a weed junkie
Need to put a fence up to keep the riff raff in. And send all these politicians there who are SYSTEMICALLY destroying these cities.
@@jeremygray7435 Oregon de-criminalized ALL drugs. Washington State is soft or non existent on hard drugs too.
Nothing could fall apart this quickly unless it was by design
Third Eye Question Everything........ALL part of the MASTER PLAN.
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Social engineering
Mk-ultra
Fusion GPS
Cointelpro
Black budget
Its not just america its the uk and europe to..Believe it or not the russians wont tolerate any woke, putin banned it from the country.
Third Eye,
It is designed.
Absolutely!
What a pity. I remember Seattle being the destination where everyone wanted to live. This is what happens when those in authority refuse to do their jobs and quite frankly do not do the right thing. Good going authorities, you have failed.
Failed? They have actually succeeded because this is what they want.
Same with Mpls/St Paul. Beautiful cities that have turned into dangerous no sane person goes there now cities with "no go zones" and businesses leaving cuz they're getting robbed so much one guys insurance canceled him. Extremely heartbreaking to watch
Drop the wokism and liberal elite ego's if you move into the heart of this country. Folks don't tolerate full time ignorance in states that provide the crops, they promote COMMON SENSE.
@@missymoonwillow6545 FUN FACT:
highest crime rates by state:
1. Alaska (R)
2. New Mexico (D)
3. Tennessee (R)
4. Arkansas (R)
5. Nevada (R)
6. Louisiana (R)
7. Alabama (R)
8. Missouri (R)
9. South Carolina (R)
10. Arizona (R)
Look how many red states there are..
The U.S. remains the richest country in the world with an overall GDP of $23 trillion. Plus, average hourly wages are up 10%. The economy closed 2021 on a tear, with GDP growing 6.9% in the fourth quarter during a global pandemic, record low 3% unemployment rate and an amazing jobs report two months in a row. Thank you President Biden.
He's fleeing the policies he voted for, and when he moves, he's going to keep voting for those same policies, because he's so smart.
So you just generalize someone's ideals just from the place they're from?
@@arriogarza9871 Yes? Even though I've seen studies that showed a lot of the movers have been net positive to the red areas they moved into. As in gains for the right and not the left in elections. Of course the data was from 2016-2020 so not sure of the waves in the last year or two.
edit for clarification the election data was from Texas elections and voter registrations during those years.
I'll still call them out though as they leave their blue area. Just to make sure...
how do you know he voted for those policies? I could be wrong but I dont believe his vote alone is what determines which policies are in place.
It’s glaringly obvious that Seattle’s politics and policies are causing serious, dangerous issues. And by that measure Seattle attracts the type of people who align with those policies.
Maybe you should look into the actual numbers of Seattle instead of what fox claims about it. Veins is lower then a lot of Republican cities and property values still going up. Yes it attracts those kind of people that's I am so successful financially intelligent informed people move there
You make a very good point.
In a couple words, liberal trash.
You mean Mexican immigrants, right?
@@Harold_Flite that and antifa and blm and druggies and thieves
"buying hotels in nearby cities", getting the homeless out of Seattle, making them someone else's problem.
Yah all the yuppies in Bellevue are really gonna like that ! 🤣🤣haha, good ! They voted for these liberals !! Time to pay the piper !
so do you want the hotel money or not...see, nobody says you have to accept the devil's money
Exactly right. One of their precious hotels came to my suburb and it's only taken a few months to turn it into a mini Seattle.
i nearly got thrown out of my flat for feeding pigeons . Humanity s gone bunkers,
Yea, move around to new area to rob them and get on their nerves for awhile. And they wonder why their dying in huge numbers!
"Seattle in on track to be one of the safest cities" LMFAO. There were siren sounds in the background as he said that. 🤣😅
Bare faced liar, pretty much in line with how these guys operate. Good people see right through it and vote with their feet.
pure gold hahaha
Basically the "this is fine" meme
I live near Seattle and try to never ever go there , No more Mariner games , Seahawks games ,. Seattle is the last place we want to go to , which is a SHAME !
The real shame is that that crap in Seattle will spread out like an infection until the entire state is lost. Look at California, it started in San Francisco and LA and spread through the state, affecting everyone living there.
Texas and Florida should have a sign at their borders saying liberals keep out
More like trespassers will be shot
Welcome to Texas...now go home!
And Utah.
I urge anyone if you see people moving in to run them off through violence. Anyone in Texas remember 2008 when Cali fled to Texas? They said they'd change, then it flipped blue and has been a craphole since
Surely don’t want them here!!
My husband and I moved from SoCal almost 2 years ago to a town in North Western AZ. We bought a new construction home in a nice community. Most of our neighbors escaped CA. Luckily they all are like minded and patriots.
It is a shame what became of my home state. We were both from families of generational Californians. It really got bad in the last 2 decades
If you are a liberal and move to a red state, leave your political beliefs behind you and embrace freedom again.
Sounds like you moved to Kingman;) Nice little town, lived there for 20 years. But California escapies also do something else and that’s raise the price of housing in those areas. It’s happening to the current city I live in.
You love Arizona? Great! Now please don't vote for liberals and their policies that killed California. (Gov. Ducey approves this message)
@@scottvamp how exactly do they do that?
@@gregkasza1925 ummm supply and demand. More people fleeing Cali to other states leaves less housing options so prices go up. How exactly do you not understand that?
I have lived my entire life of 55 years I Northern California and recently retired. I’m selling my house and land and moving most likely to Idaho to buy as much land as I can afford and hopefully live out my life in peace. I can’t stand California politics and what I have watched them do to this state. I apologize to Idaho in advance for contributing to rising housing prices. At least I will be voting the right way once I’m there.
I’m a poor seattle citizen, grew up in Washington all my life . For 27 years now , I see all the changes and it’s horrible . Seattle used too feel safe and I see things purposely done . This poor come beautiful state is turning to Chicago . Really trashy and poorly run city . We really need a red state .
I pray for something good to come along for you 🙏 Look to the Lord Jesus and ask him to show you a way out of out of that mess.
@@chelebelle2223 amen amen
well, y'all let Amazon and Microsoft in, right? Now you are a big city with really big city wealth too. And no state income tax. Seattle needs a mayor like Chicago's Richard M Daley. Don't freaking knock what you don't know. Chicago, under his admin, became Disneyland. Greatest place in the country to live in at that time. Seattle has great days ahead of it because it has assets and wealth. Not very many cities in this country can prove that with their financials.
@@timharbert7145 it has trashy days in the present and trashier ahead .
@@timharbert7145 democrats are pushing away tech businesses to Texas
I fell in love with Seattle when I visited but was quickly harassed by homeless and was shocked at how run down it was and how rude many were. Even LA felt safer. I knew then it was a recent problem, but I got the vibe that a couple decades ago it was a hell of a great place.
It was a great place. Out of control empathy without boundaries has turned it into what it is today.
The more hand outs, subsidies, rent control, NEEDLES, there are the worse the problems will get. Lower the bar for accepted human behavior, and you have set the new standard. Tough love is the answer. The sooner this country figures it out, the better off we all will be. Politicians, weak, and lazy people are to blame.
black demographic change
Yo some states in the lower area more towards Mexico and Texas I assume any where the cartel has leaked too...they just hand out the fix the users need at like a "rehabilitate the needy " walk in , walk out thing and they can do it atleast once a day . That isn't keeping the cycle going I don't know what is?
don't forget criminal behavior politicians as much as weak and lazy, which is the nicest thing you could say about politicians
lower the bar for leaders and the followers will follow... which 'this country' has no borders?
Hard times create strong men. Strong men create good times. Good times create weak men. And, weak men create hard times.
G. Michael Hopf, Those Who Remain (The New World #7)
So, not pursuing/investigating crimes leads to a drop in the reporting of those crimes. You need only be a working citizen in these cities to know that crime is up.
That is why I live out in the sticks you see my woman and the kid and the dogs and me. I can plow a field all day long and catch some walleye from dusk till dawn. I got my shotgun rifle and my four wheel drive and country folks will survive. My Montra I live it and breath it everyday.
I can only assume that you think that this is because of President Biden? maybe you should think again, Take Joy
@@stardust164 well of course it is. His soft on crime policies. It's common sense and a real person with two eyes can see it clearly. Obviously you are closing your eyes to it.
Liberals don't report the crime so the stats look better! less like the nightmare it is!
@@robertdunlap7641 "Hank Jr"
We go around Seattle, and straight through Portland without stopping. These are places that we would plan stops and go out of our way to go to.
Even going straight thru Portland, the problems spill onto the freeway.
YUK all over the place.
Fuel up before going near Portland so you don't have to exit into Portland.
@@TheBandit7613 Well I-5 goes thru Portland
I use to live in a podunk town in Conservative middle America.. then moved to Seattle.. I feel just as safe here as I did there. "Liberal cities are bad".. hate America Focker?
My husband was just informed that he might have 2 big job in DC and in New York the money is great and I mean great, more money than we making 2 months, on one of these jobs but I'm terrified and I don't think it's worth it and I don't want him to do it. We haven't fully decided yet , but the more and more time goes on and more more we talk about it the more we are leaning to hell no
@@TheBandit7613 Yep exactly, you get to see the huge problem on full display just driving down the 5 through Portland.
It’s getting harder and harder to remember “normal”. LORD have mercy on us.🙏🏻
True. Those people born after 1995 don't even have a clue what happy, normal American life was like.
Elections have consequences. These are the policies and people you voted for .
This is the direct result of soft on crime policies these DA's should be held accountable along with the criminals
Agreed but we know that will never happen.This is madness.
ARREST
The Seattle ...
District Attorney
yeah, direct result; give me a break,you people are so deceived, showed this to my Boeing friends, they couldn't stop laughing!
“Men fight for freedom, then they begin to accumulate laws to take it away from themselves.” ~unknown.
@@FirstLast-gv1zl Really, do you have proof of this, let's see it, would it stand up in a debate?
The problem is, we need to stop providing for foreign country citizen and take care of our own,taxpayers
ya, but that would maybe make sense...we cant have that stuff called freedom form willy nilly!
Haven't you heard? That sort of thinking is RACIST! [/sarcasm]
Reporter: "Is Seattle safe?"
Mayor: "Yes. One of the safest cities." (Sirens audible in background)
My son is 2 I couldnt imagine the boy picking up needles makes me terrified for other parents
Happens more in Alabama
@@darkeen42 I believe it south is real bad I lived in Kentucky
With these people, they leave because of the danger and they don’t like it, but then they vote for the same thing. The problem is the mind set of people they say they wake up but doing the same thing by voting for the same thing they don’t like.
maybe not. up here in Oregon, people moved from california to here due to the relative cheapness of housing back in the day. And still doing it. Has nothing to do with politics, so they do bring that here, but those moving due to bad politics etc are moving elsewhere. Not to Oregon, another ultra stupidly politically brainless corrupt government state. Not to WA either. These states seem similar in mindset to them so they move here for cheaper housing AND liberal idiocy. They aren't moving to our rural areas, usually, but to the liberal big cities.
When you leave a blue state to a red state, don't forget why you left.
Well spoken my friend.......
Why would blue state refugees move to a red state and then vote for politicians who would support the same policies that they were trying to escape? Are left wingers that F--ING stupid!?
@Visualpro Amen!!!
Amen
@Visualpro - - People moving from bastions of liberalism should by required by law to take tests proving that they will not bring their Bizarro World philosophy with them. 😉
Imagine trying to create a 'better society' by not arresting minorities for crimes, and then being surprised when your city falls apart
I was living in Seattle for the past five years. When President Trump was elected everyone lost their minds and it was the most frightening thing I ever experienced. I’ve never seen an entire community think one way. Ever.
I saw COVID start in Seattle. I evacuated my team when the George Floyd riots started and I experienced the CHAZ/CHOP. It was hell.
I moved two weeks to Grand Rapids, MI and have been comfortable ever since :)
My friend was violently assaulted and showed up at my friends place covered in blood with a cracked skull the night Obama was elected back in 08. He was drinking at a bar and most of mentioned to someone that he didn't vote for Obama and there was a group of people screaming at him in the bar. The next day he thought he had gotten hit by a car as his entire body was in pain and was soaking in blood. The only reason I know he was attacked by a mob is because he called me during it and said these guys are all insane here before it happened. Seattle has always had a violent mob mentality and regular people will attack you if you express any opinions different than theirs. I'm so glad I moved away in 2010.
There was a BLM riot there yesterday
@@JPbruv That's why you need to have a gun on you.
Killing attackers is legal self defense and is biblical and Constitutional.
@@wokejoke2675 Doesn't surprise me, where was it in Seattle? The city is fueled on conflict smh...
How did you leave a whole state just like that? Like job wise money transition headache.
I lived and worked in Seattle for 25 years. I moved to Texas last summer. Best decision I've ever made. Seattle is ABSOLUTELY NOT SAFE. And I say that as a veteran with 3 Gulf tours, and 2 back to back tours in Mogadishu. Do not be confused by these politicians who always look at the bright side. They are in a deep state of denial. Go out there and see with your own eyes. Get out while you still can. Protect yourself and your family at all costs.
I was born and raised here in Texas now 51. I’m praying a lot all the time our state never run by Democrat. I’m praying democrats here in Dallas get voted out. I don’t miss any elections no matter how small. I’m praying every single that Governor Abbott gets re-elected🙏🙏🙏 I prayed everyday for an entire year he would primary.
Thank you for your service!
thanks, bro. am considering it
You're probably safer in Khandahar than you are in Seattle or Portland.
I lived in western Washington north of Seattle from 1982 to 2019. During this period I watched the constant deterioration of a once beautiful city, increased crime and the constant expansion of the homeless population. The local and state governments raised taxes every year even after referendums voted in by the people to lower taxes. Instead of the state government using the inflated taxes the government became increasingly involved in the lives of the average citizen through restrictions and regulations. My wife and I moved to a free State in October of 2019. I hate what the left is doing to Washington, Oregon and California.
Did you get to see Nirvana play?
now, explain to the folks that WA doesn't have an income tax. So, which taxes are you talking about? The state is heavily dependent upon sales tax collections. That's should be a big enough hint to you.
@@timharbert7145 I would recommend doing your own research. I think you will find that Washington (especially western WA) is very much over taxed.
I left in 2017 and I’m glad I did. Same reason.
I went to Seattle in 1992, when the music scene was epic. I miss that Seattle...And all my friends too.
The mayor couldn’t keep a straight face when he said he’s going to clean it up
This just makes me cry. It was such a beautiful city
The "summer of love" is what Seattle voters want. Freedom to express yourselves!! Everyone enjoy!!
I'm right there with you no sympathy here They should have voted Republican lol
“Men fight for liberty and win it with hard knocks. Their children, brought up easy, let it slip away again, poor fools. And their grandchildren are once more slaves.” -D.H. Lawrence.
'seattle voters want'...all society voters want... wanting is suffering...more voters invite more political corruption...society is the birthplace of war and slavery...after tons of societies and yet folks still expect something less insane....amazing!
and enjoy your shortened lifespans as well!
@@daieast6305 Insane is having 5 subscribers when there in no content on your sight! ROFL
I used to go to Seattle regularly since I was 16 years old, always enjoyed it and felt pretty safe even late at night. Last time I was there I felt lucky to be alive when I left.
Just like Detroit was once the Paris of the Midwest, Seattle was once America’s most livable city. Some historian should match the frequency of rhetorical catchphrases spouted out by activists at city council meetings with crime rates and population growth. People should have a graph that indicates when peak stupidity for any city has been reached.
Not a bad idea
demographic change
kalergi
When I retired I left Detroit. The only reason I put up with it was needed a 17 MPG 4 wheel drive to get to work( that is Highway MPG). Snow days were not an option for me with a 23 mile drive one way.
A lot of my co-workers drove 30 miles one way. I also did not have children living at home with me. Now I live 30 miles outside the city.
I remember coming back to Detroit from San Diego in 1985(NavSta SD). Michigan Avenue in Detroit looked like there had been a war there.
There was no sign needed to tell you you were in Dearborn.
Dearborn looked the same as it always has looked. Except for the signs in a alphabet I can't read. Also no good Italian restaurants East of Telegraph.
Governor on his third, four year term with no term limits and has filed the necessary paperwork to run again.
I need to get out of Seattle. Homelessness, dumbing down in our schools and forced single-file driving on our former well-flowing arterials, mandatory tight turning lanes everywhere, bus-only lanes. Seattle is SO STUPID now!!! My friend was stabbed inside his gf’s building after a minor altercation. 3 people shot and killed near my area in the past year- it’s lame.
Flee Democrat controllled cities!
I left 22 years ago, saw the signs of liberalism ruining things, also the rain back then and being cold 9 months out of the year, it was enough for me to move to Florida. Much happier here.
Republicans are dumbing down your schools, Sybil. They like voters dumb and poor.
@@savannah505 Florida is pretty fun
Oh, get out.. there are safer places in this state. Take care. Yes, you may not get as much money, but it is cheaper to live away from the cities.
I am so grateful we moved when we did.
2022: "We're on the way to make Seattle one of the safest cities"
2023: "We made being homeless easier, gave addicts a place to use, lessened sentences and disarmed the victims. I don't understand why all that didn't work!"
@link4566 Not really the point I was trying to make, but my brief stint with homelessness (two years) basically amounted to stuffing my face with cedar-smoked trout and rabbit morchella in a hammock on various lake shores while I reflected on how shitty my life as a wage-slave was. I'd imagine that it'd be a lot more difficult to be a drug addict living on city streets, but I didn't do that so I wouldn't know.
The point of my post however, is that these liberal-ran cities keep implementing policies that attract more of those types of homeless people and various other criminals, while not only making it more difficult for honest law-abiding people to be safe and secure in their homes and of their properties, but also doing so at the financial expense of those law-abiding persons under the guise of it being for resident benefit, when in reality their sole motivation is the kick-backs they receive from those tax-payer funded organizations.
@link4566 actually it is. Just get you a drug or alcohol problem and you're on a one way ticket there.
@link4566 never said that.
@link4566 I'm implying that it's easy to become homeless.
Had to get out of the city, moved down to Yelm, purchased some land and plan to build a house here, life is good 👍
Most... NOT ALL... Homeless CHOOSE their way of life due to their desire to be free of societal norms and their disdain of rules and authority. This is why most complexes dedicated to the homeless remain largely vacant because curfews, no littering rules, and no drug policies are counter to their lifestyle.
RUBBISH
Yeah just about true. Small percentage of them actually wanna be helped.
Well said!!!!! 👍
that's not true
i think you forgot quite a bit such as the negative impact of a military industrial based economy and legalization of monopoly of big pharma selling imitation medicine while making natural occuring medicines illegal. but then if government even wanted to fix everything right away they would all have to go home and do real work
Seattle used to be a lovely place. Yes a whole lot of folks but anymore where I used to live, it is totally not safe at all. No desire to ever go there again.
A lot of cities are extremely dangerous. I lived in Kalamazoo for 10 years ( very nice city) and took several extended weekend trips to Chicago and had such a great time there. It’s even dangerous to be on the Dan Ryan ( highway). I always stayed in Lincoln park and a couple times I took a jog on my sleepless nights all the way to buckingham fountain and back also out a bit late a couple other nights at the pub and walked everywhere. Never in danger. It’s awful now. Some neighborhoods have even hired private security. Very sad.
I wouldn’t move to a liberal city like Seattle, San Francisco, or New York if they paid all my bills and a handsome income on top of that. This is what happens in democratic run cities especially when you defund the police. Thank you but no thank you, I’m fine right where I am. I do feel very badly for the people that live in these cities but they pretty much brought it on themselves.
Phoenix is becoming that way too now
Well because those frickin liberals move to red states or red cities and then turn them to disaster, they are like virus
@@cbillings85 its the way of the Lefty Democratic Liberal freaks! They ruin a city then move on to the next.
I am very lucky to live in suburban south Florida. We have law AND order here!
They voted for that crap so they can live with it!
I was stationed at NAS Whidbey Island from 2004-2009 and used to go to Seattle frequently. It's really sad and shocking at how much the city has changed in 13 years. 😕
calling seattle safe is like saying joe biden is competent enough to get ice cream
Not sure what you mean, but are you a cisgender white man who still chooses to get all your information from mainstream big business funded extremist propaganda channels like this and cnn, like a sheep?
well trump the rapist may run again so support the liar
Well said!!!👏🏼❤️
actually ole joe has his iced creme served to him or he might throw a serving spoon at putin
He’s so impaired they have to mix his ice cream in applesauce
While I sympathize with the people leaving these cities, they're the voters that created the mess and I wish they'd leave their liberal, crap politics in the cities they're fleeing.
They are doing this. My family did this.
@Sndjzkzk!!! Absolutely, my good man, there’ve been republicans mixed with folks that have left those ‘blue’ states. I was speaking in terms of generalities, of course -my bad but those aren’t the folks that political issue is taken with. In truth, sympathy is given. It’s the others! And they carry the same political disease they infected upon their states -progressive social liberalism. They could have voted for a different outcome but didn't. Instead, they rode that pony to it dropped. You can study these effects by examining places like Austin, Texas or the state of Florida or Colorado. Why heck, you can look at California of 1975 overlayed with California of 2022. We can see the political trauma left on these places. I point to the Northerners moving to the Southeast that are having the same effect as Californians moving to Idaho, Arizona, Montana and Texas. Let’s be real here, man. These folks aren’t moving to Chicago, Baltimore, Philadelphia or St Louis. Nobody gets out of bed in their home of New York City and thinks tomorrow I'll move to Clovis, New Mexico or Dearborn, Michigan. In the words of the Great Joe Biden, “C,mon, man”. I understand some of this is a political effort to change the voting-block of a state in an effort to capture those electoral votes. This is a very complex subject matter. Cheers.
I agree with your sentiments but keep in mind that some of us have become voiceless and powerless voters. I live in a decent city in OC and am trying to figure out how to fight this trend, short of leaving.
@@DevilDog3381 I'm interested in what you come up with. It's a dreadful slate of decisions to be forced to make either way. God bless and good luck.
I lived in Seattle '78-82 and it was safe and clean. I lived in Portland 1982-2017, watched the downtown core get revitalized and gentrified. I enjoyed the light rail and oftentimes went to eat, watch a game, or Saturday market and never felt unsafe. The downtown has been ruined, once thriving storefronts boarded up, people defecating in the streets and sidewalks, and "homeless" destroying decades of revitalization. As a lifelong PNWer, at 57 years of age I couldn't take the nonsense anymore. Packed up and left my home, my onced loved city destroyed by parasites.
Y’all keep blaming the homeless like it’s not our entire lifestyle that’s leading to this. Most homeless customers are ironically IN HOMES. Rent and Mortgage does not mean you OWN your living space. Until the root of the problem is handled… this WILL be you.
I live on the east side, near Seattle. Seattle is a disaster. About 1/3rd of the Seattle police department has quit. It's not safe. On the bright side, the new mayor is cracking down on some of the more egregious crime, and Seattle actually elected a Republican city attorney. The new city attorney has made a big difference and is prosecuting crimes again. Will it be enough? I don't know, but it is at least a good sign.
Good luck citizens of Seattle
I did hear that Ann Davidson Sattler got in. Thank God.
Not as long as the psychopaths like Sawant, Gonzalez, Juarez, Herbold, and Morales stay in office. The ones who think shoplifting is justified; the ones who think it is cruel to insist that people trashing the city not be allowed to continue trashing it; the ones who sit on their thrones in the council chambers and look down on us peons and serfs like the despots they are.
@@downtime86stars17 Exactly! They say they are survival crimes but then why do we have all the services, food banks and necessities available to them? they know many of these people are drug addicts and struggle with mental health but because of civil rights, they will not require them to get help. And that is why we have this problem. They know it and they don’t care. So when these people go off and hit people over the head with a baseball bat or stab someone, it’s just a part of life we have to accept according to the Seattle city council. And lately I’ve heard they have taken to throwing bicycles and bricks onto the I-5 and I assume that’s because there is an encampment very near the highway. Never mind the fires and the theft...By the way, the good taxpayers of Seattle paid upwards of 150,000 for a daycare to provide one council member daycare for her kid. Must be nice! And the ridiculous fact that Herbold lives in North Bend and is out of touch with her district... unless she needs a favor from the police chief. You honestly cannot make this stuff up. These Marxist fools have destroyed the city and people need to learn from this. City councils have way too much power when you combine it with the DOJ.
People moving into a new community or state should be required to have at least 6 years residency to vote in city elections and 8 years residency to vote in state elections. Transients obviously shouldn't have much say in the way the real locals live.
Absolutely AGREE. Been saying that for a long time.
100% agree
👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽agree!!!
I agree except it should be a decade and 25 years instead.
And they can't build new houses. Too many out of staters make it impossible to own a home for natural born residents!
Having moved from Seattle in 2000,
And seeing it now, I could never have imagined that beautiful city turning into such chaos.😩
At the school?! Wow. Insane...
When you elect a liberal to office why should you expect anything different? Nothing will change as long as we crap on policing
not only policing but DA's prosecuting and judges not dismissing or giving super light sentences
I have to ask out of curiosity but Which type of liberals do you mean? There are conservative liberals, right liberals, established liberals, progressive liberals etc etc. It’s strange how many Americans don’t understand what liberal means. By definition you’re liberal, unless you hate democracy. Liberal- 1. willing to respect or accept behavior or opinions different from one's own; open to new ideas.
2. relating to or denoting a political and social philosophy that promotes individual rights, civil liberties, democracy, and free enterprise.
Also your “left” are actually more center right. Not even AOC is truly left. Although left-wing politics came to the United States in the 19th century, there are no major left-wing political parties in the United States. Despite existing left-wing factions within the Democratic Party, as well as minor third parties such as the Green Party, Communist Party, Party for Socialism and Liberation, Workers World Party, Socialist Party, and American Solidarity Party (a Christian democratic party leaning left on economics), none of the parties have ever won a seat in congress. Why is the political spectrum so hard for you guys to understand? Not an attack but a serious question I really want to know.
I was born and Raised there. I can definitely say the last 10 years things have gotten much worse in the Seattle area.
And did you vote for Democrats? If so, you made it happen.
You voted for it you dumb bish
In another comment you said you were born and raised in Florida. Pick a lie and stick with it. 🙄
@@mitch103178 your tripping. I definitely never said that. You have me confused with someone else. I've never even been to Florida.
@@docsavage8640 no I'm an independent, but I lean more towards republican
My husband and I drove to Seattle and we weren't there longer then 20 minutes before getting back on the freeway and going back south. The traffic was a nightmare a lot of people homeless drugs trash it didn't feel friendly but unsafe and it was pretty scary and this was during the day
Unfortunately there’s too much homelessness is places like Seattle, San Francisco and LA to ever fix it with hotels or trailers because more will just show up and take their place!! It’s the bad Democratic policies that are to blame and there’s no chance that those will be changed !! 🙄🤷🏻♂️
@@SirManfly
You are correct. Rather disturbing, to how fast the decline.
This is so sad, Seattle used to be such a beautiful city.
We have a homeless population in my small town , with plenty of drugs and booze , I took a ride in my boat and found tents ,blankets ,bags, ect,,, coming down the river I live on ,,,some people must have destroyed a campsite up stream , but now all the trash is washing up in my backyard,,I feel bad for these people and nothing is getting done , but it's also creating big problems for my town , I can't walk barefoot in my own backyard without worrying about stepping on needles,, FJB ,,
This man speaks the truth!
Yah well that fking man voted for it, so fk u and him
I'm so glad I got out of the west coast. Those of my "friends" who stayed behind, they're in absolute denial about the problems of the area. They just ignore it, and pretend it isn't happening.
I think that is also called blue pilling someone.
I'm very🙏🏼thankful🙌🏼that I live in Florida.
King Co. is moving the homeless to Kitsap Co. and then bragging how much better it's getting.
Shame, my great grandfather lived in King County and earned a lot of money on it. However it was in 1911-1946 ish. So
Sad. Born and raised in Kitsap County. Great place to grow up.
Of course, that was in the 70's and early 80's.
Well, vote the same way for 40 years ..... This is what you get.
@@DTWExtreme Just left Olalla sold my house I knew this would happen. Im going a fishing trip around the nice places of the US for about 4 years or at least dummy is out of office.
it's the ports and CCP money that are corrupting them
I fled SF 10 years ago when Newsom messed it up beyond recognition. Now I live in a red county. And on top of that, I'm Mexican American- I never felt so welcomed in amy place before now. Logical, common sense people that build roots and a sense of community should be fundamental to every American family.
Communist teachers tell you right leaning people are racist because they need a victim class
Amen Brother.
@@ducksinarowpatience3670 Amen! God bless you and your family.
Voting has consequences..
Don't believe for a moment that these "elections" were legit.
@@shirleyaprile4838 I don’t believe they were legit but some folks did ignorantly vote for these leftist.
Come to Philadelphia PA and really have your mind blown...
After living in Seattle for 61years, basically born and raised there, I left 2 years ago when I finally couldn't take it anymore. Seeing my city turn into the crime Haven and drug Haven that it has become, and the city politicians not caring to do a thing about it. In fact even almost encouraging it by their actions I finally knew it was time to leave. I don't regret leaving Seattle one bit. I stayed in Washington but live in a much more conservative area. Liberalism kills cities, Seattle is proof of that.
They only care about that paycheck
I left in 2017 and I’m glad I did. Same reason.
@@staceytroffer8287 it went from being one of the nicest places in the country to live, to being one of the worst in less than a decade.
I did the same with Portland in Oregon but it might not have been far enough away. Laws here still make everything worse. My husband works in a highly regulated field that has nothing to do with crime or homelessness, but the governing body still made of halfwit libs. He’s constantly putting out their fires. If it ever gets too bad we’re probably going to Arizona like everyone else. FYI he was always a conservative even in Portland, it was just possible to live there once. Just because you vote doesn’t mean they’re going to count it…
@@sonialinsey8083 I love the way you complain but can't actually come up with a specific thing you're complaining about that's how you know you don't know what you're talking about you can't even talk about it just whine and cry about things you don't understand and stats that disagree with you
I honestly don't think HOUSING is the MAIN issue, they need to ADDRESS & HANDLE the DRUG USE FIRST, the actual HOUSING is
a SYMPTOM & CONSEQUENCE of the DRUG USE. UNFORTUNATELY SOMEONE IS PROFITTING off the HOMELESS SITUATION
or it wouldn't be ALLOWED to CONTINUE..
And the cartels are in charge of our border.
RUBBISH
Look Up a video called "Seattle is Dying" by a KOMO reporter.
All those evil capitalists fault huh... One day you will grow up.
or just drop off poisoned bottled water to all the junkie camps
Gives the title “sleepless in Seattle” a new meaning sadly
So the State tax PAYERS are going to pay for the homeless. Not a word of a work program for the homeless
I heard a lot of people that left CA moved to the nearby states of OR and WA, which were Republican at the time. The problem is, they took their politics with them, this is the result. What’s the definition of insanity?? Doing the same thing over and over and expecting a different result. Lesson here is: VOTE REPUBLICAN!!!
well, that won't solve it unless you have good candidates that have good plans for the area.
Kathy M... when the TRUE VOTE Totals come out of 2020...people might be surprised of Cally & Or.. Would I live there.. Hell No..
@@theCosmicQueen You're right BUT even a mediocre Conservative is a far better choice than anyone red.
I don't know what the solution to the homeless is but I know providing free anything is just going to just going to encourage more to come and make your situation worse.
I'm all for providing them a safe place to sleep, facilities to clean up and access to internet so they can look for work; many of them are just in a hard spot in their lives and want to get back on their feet. It just can't be so nice that their quality of life is better on wellfare than if they get a job.
There are signs up where I live: "Don't feed the seagulls".
True. This was done in NJ in New Brunswick, back in the 1970s. The city (Democrat run) built high rises for the low income and poor, ( mostly black tennants)for lower income folks. Some drug addicted and such. In less than 5 years....BRAND NEW APARTMENT buildings became SLUMS.
The tenants threw their garbage everywhere, NEVER PICKED UP after themselves. They broke windows, doors, and put holes in the walls. And the buildings QUICKLY became slum drug havens. Why?
Also, what's been WRONG WITH PEOPLE WHO HAVE BABIES? Can't mothers and fathers TEACH THEIR CHILDREN to "PICK UP" after themselves, after THEY CLEAN UP AFTER THEMSELVES.....FIRST?
It's called personal RESPONSIBILITY people. WHEN is THIS GOING TO BE APPLIED TO EVERYONE?
All throughout the centuries there have been poor people. At the beginning of the 20th century, MANY POOR PEOPLE CAME FROM EUROPE. (No money, dirt poor.) I KNEW MANY of their families in NJ.
They were POOR, but they kept their small little apartments CLEAN, and picked up of any and all trash. Inside AND OUTSIDE the apartments. They took PRIDE in how their places looked. They were poor, but they were CLEAN.. Why DO SOME FOLKS THINK BEING A SLOB IS okay? And isnjust a part of their LIFESTYLE? IT'S NOT.....IT'S JUST BEING A SLOB. And you don't get to cry "victim", if you can't even take care of something sma ll that you have. You'll NEVER take care of a nice house, if given the chance. And, then get angry, if someone has a nice CLEAN house. Sorry, it doesn't WORK THAT WAY. What's the mindset here? I don't get it.
Someone explain that to me. This is NO ONES "FAULT", EXCEPT THE ONE DOING IT. So laying BLAME on others, on this topic isn't going to work.
My daughter and I lived in an apartment in Macon, GA, and were walking the dog. A car with two women and several kids in the back were driving in the parking lot. They all had McDonald's food. Then the mothers and kids threw ALL the trash OUT THE WINDOWS, into the parking lot, and entire BUNCH of it landed all around our feet and all over the place. SHAME ON PARENTS WHO ALLOW LITTERING AND TRASHING. You're NOT DOING YOUR JOBS. That's called failing, as a parent.
@@lewiskellye basically the same with any "wild" animal. Once you do they become "reliant" upon it.
Soylent green processing facilities. :P
Seattle, just like California and New York, continue to vote Democrat and expect different results, hard to have sympathy,
Dominion again and again? Have you counted the votes?
We have DOMINION machines and mail in ballots voting,it's not to change until we the people stand up
@@nobordersnowelfare7285 dominion was hacked by democrats
HIGHEST CRIME RATES BY STATE
1. Alaska (R)
2. New Mexico (D)
3. Tennessee (R)
4. Arkansas (R)
5. Nevada (D)
6. Louisiana (D)
7. Alabama (R)
8. Missouri (R)
9. South Carolina (R)
10. Arizona (R)
@@egarza9241 this is interesting friend
It's happening everywhere. I'm on Vancouver Island and it's starting here now to ...government s need to do something to help and stop this crap .
"Seattle is on a trajectory to be one of the safest cities in America."
This mayor does not understand what a "trajectory" is, or how the analogy he's using (comparing civic changes with ballistic motion) works.
Well considering the bullets flying around maybe “ trajectory “ is the right phrase 😂
How does one become a man that looks like the bald guy ? Junk fast food diet that's how.
Only if a big bomb hits there...smh
I guess he had to struggle to even put that spin on it. He looked gobsmacked by the question
Typical Left Wing moron. He doesn't have the brains God gave the average house plant.
A city near me tried to get the homeless into hotels and rooms only to find the homeless person destroyed the room. They refused to use the bathroom facilities, they did not take care of their trash. They lived just like they did out in the elements. That city gave up on it.
sounds like they needed mental health treatment .
Because homelessness ISNT THE PROBLEM! It’s a byproduct of the real problem : ADDICTION
Lol 😂 they got that mayor dude off the trash truck.
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That's disgusting, needle watch on the way to and from school 😪 there shouldn't be this level of homelessness these days but it just gets worse, it will be like THE PURGE soon
The siren in the background was perfect.....
Does anyone out there STILL not understand why so many of the Founding Fathers warned U.S. "Do Not allow party systems to form in our Halls of Governance."
George Washington himself said, "Specifically a two party system will tear the country apart."
It's not the conservatives ripping USA in half and destroying all that is good.
Ive never heard that GW qoute. It does sound like something he would say, he was, in addition to being a hero, a smart and perceptive guy
@@paulgardner5079 Yep. Just a sample of what politicians have succeeded in taking out of all of our public funded education platforms.
That's not what his address was about. He is talking about cliques, associations, factions, small groups, in league with others. When you read the whole farewell, it's a warning against Corporatism at least what that would be today. Corporations.
Every time you see the Washington quote it starts with the following "(Political parties)", in other words, the writer of that particular article is putting words in Washington's mouth.
I encourage you to read the entire farewell. This is a myth propagated by those who are against the constitution not for it.
There are issues with the two parties, but it's more about corporate influence.
And it is infecting both parties.
The three branches buying stock using insider knowledge, family members/friends employed by organizations that are affiliated with decisions the three branches are making, the length of time they spend in Washington. It isn't conservative and liberal beliefs that are at issue. It's the political machine. Local has less of an issue.
But the founders knew the concept. Power corrupts, absolute power, corrupts absolutely.
@@angelagriffin5130 I dont know how true this is, but I read somewhere that during those days, corporations werent really allowed. A business had to be owned by someone or some ones and they were personally liable for that businesses activities
"Seattle is on a trajectory to be one of the safest cities in the US." Not from what we hear out in the real world. Seattle has become extremely dangerous.
They think that because people are no longer wasting their time reporting crime, that the crime rate is dropping. LOL! I used to walk around Seattle at night alone and unarmed during the 90s with no worries..No way I'd attempt that nowadays.
he's planning ahead, like 20 years maybe. just didn't want to say anything bad.
@@theCosmicQueen yeah. Difficult position. Place is a mess
More gaslighting, the whole city has become a liar.
@@drewpknutz1410 spot on. Residents have given up reporting. Why bother? When LE arrests someone they get instantly released and no charges are filed. Poof. Magic. Crime has “declined”. All the liberals/communists can pat each other on the back…
We fled Louisville who surpassed Chicago in per-capita crime. This man is 100% correct. No child should have to grow up in these environments. Do whatever it takes to get your family out.