@@Millenimorphose I say go for it!! The cost of living is more expensive than here but it is so beautiful living there I think you guys will love it. I go back every year for a music festival and my friends that go from Spokane love the beauty of the area
I've lived a lot of places. Spokane is always home. It's a beautiful city, lively neighborhood culture, and great place to settle down and raise kids. It's also more affordable than most parts of the U.S. That being said, if you're young and want more innovative or edgier cultures, you're better off going somewhere else. Spokane is always 10 years behind Seattle or Portland.
Born and raised in Spokane. It has had its ups and downs in many ways but overall I love Spokane. There are always improvements that could be made, but that’s how it is with just about every city. There are so many wonderful people, events, history, and community love here in Spokane that makes it all worth it.
I live in Montana and have visited Spokane quite a bit. It seems quite dusty. A large area of neighborhoods seem dowdy, unkempt, not pleasant. Drug use is rampant. I90 cuts right through the city. There's no real draw. The Spokane Valley Mall is ok. The river area is lovely.
Go downtown! I try to visit every year, and it rarely disappoints. The redevelopment and rehab, particularly in Riverfront Park, is fantastic. The bar and microbrew scene is also great for a town its size. I live in the Seattle area (got out of the city proper a few years ago, thank heavens), and I'm always amazed at how quickly I can get from one place to another (e.g. Manito to downtown). I mean, if you think the valley mall is ok, then other parts of the city should knock your socks off.
As a local, it pretty much all boils down to too much power in the hands of real estate developers. How many substance abuse problems and homeless people could be avoided if people could afford to live indoors here? But naw, keep voting in Al French, keep watching downtown get divvied up by monied interests looking for better ways to squeeze the locals.
I'm in Spokane, Jan. 2024. There's a lot of homeless here, downtown. Riverfront is very nice though. Saw a problem on the cablecars that take you across the falls. Like a tourist ride. It got shut down for the rest of the day.
Lived in Spokane for over 60 years. Have seen it transform from a simple town vibe with old fashioned stores and malls to this Yuppie village. In some aspects it is an improvement, but in others it has made things worse. In the 1960's-1980's we had very little crime. Homlessness was not an issue. Cops had much greater authority to crack down on vagrants. You could easily get thrown in jail and put in a drug program and there was no option just to waunder and vandalize property repeatedly with little consequences. Traffic problems were non-existent. Shootings were unheard off. When Californians started to migrate to our area(as well as others from big cities) they saw a market for growing businesses and developing a higher class of businesses and entrepreneurialship. With this interest it also drew the homeless that were out of resources and wanted to escape the high cost of living in large cities. As our popularity started booming into the late 1990's and early 2000's growth started to accelerate. Gangs started to get more established and shootings and drive bys started to increase. As the wealthy came to set up their businesses and buy and build expensive homes. This has driven up the cost of living and increased the rate of homelessness and crime grew. As fentynal flooded the U.S. the problems of crime accelerated in our area. Because of the handholding and cumbya attitude of handling the homeless and the drug issues in our town(and many other cities) we have, shall we say, created our own mess. Growth is all well and good and I do love the nice variety of restaurants and entertainment venues, and sporting events. But the problem I have with it is the idea that all growth is good. This is not true! The idea that we need so many different sports venues and arenas in the downtown core and elsewhere is crazy! Yes sports events bring money from tourism into a city, but study after study shows that the cost to maintain these facilities and to staff them and to replace them far exceeds their revenue. Now if I am totally off base well I'm sorry, but I think it is pretty close to being accurate. We also need to remember how these things affect traffic congestion and the lifestyle of the locals. The average Spokaneite cannot enjoy the many amenities they rave about downtown if it is too congested to get around and if you can't park anywhere and would have to take the bus(the tweakers and homeless are on those). So the process of gentrification or should I call it Californication is not making the place better for the locals that grew up here, but it is making the place feel more like home for the wealthy so they can have all the amenities they left behind in the big city. What do we get? Out of reach home prices for locals, increased crime and homelessness, increased traffic, increases in prices for goods and services, and more people driving Landrovers. And I laugh when I hear how the transplants have to get 4WD or AWD to get around. I have never owned one until just recently(needed a new truck to replace our 30 year old one). I have gotten around fine with front wheel drive with studded snows. The studs help keep you from sliding on ice which gets really bad on hills and the freeway. I don't live on the South Hill. So no issues for me. 😉 And No! In and Out burgers are not that great. Neither is Chick' Filay. Really just go to a nice local pub/eatery and get a better burger. I still love Spokane, but I am not as welcoming to newcomers as I used to be. 😊
I moved here over twenty years ago, nobody has welcomed me yet. When I got here, all the local youngsters talked about was getting out. There seems to be a small town, cliquish mindset and a judgementality that was thoroughly hardened quite some time before the turn of the century. It's almost like you didn't know how good you had it til the rest of the world wanted some too.
Hey there, I really appreciate your thoughtful comment, do you know of any places in Washington that haven't turned Yuppy yet with relatively low crime? Or is all of Washington like that? thanks
@@Picklemedia Walla Walla, Yakima? Larger city maybe Bellingham. Pullman is a college town, but the Palouse is very pretty. Spokane has much less crime and homeless than Seattle though. We do have smaller towns just outside of Spokane. Like Cheney. Davenport, Medical Lake(did just have a big fire though), Deer Park, etc. Which might be a compromise.
try being homeless here. i guarandamntee you we are not welcome or comfortable. i was evicted by my landlord because he decided to sell the home my daughter and i were living in the basement apartment of. Six. Years. Ago. we have been homeless ever since and are living in a car. we were harassed and threatened by the cops for sleeping in our car on a public street. we never leave trash anywhere, we never do drugs or drink alcohol. blessedly a store manager has given us a safe place to sleep. we both have disabilities so we have been turned down for every job applied for. Catholic Charities is somehow, inexplicably, in charge of all homeless opportunities and the last time i called them they asked if i was still disabled and when i replied "yes" the woman very rudely said " We have nothing for you." and hung up. excuse me for calling about every program i think we might be eligible for. the cops have told several of my friends to move out of the county. i'm looking in other states trusting something will come up for us.
Born and raised in Spokane. I keep moving out of state but always end up back home. My problem is the lack mental health resources and how homeless are welcomed and comfortable. Spokane jails are severly over crowded so criminals have to be just let out into communities again with no rehabilitation. There are no consequences for making the city an unsafe or filthy place. Our school systems and parents have very little support to help give our youth a healthy start to adulthood. Therefore, the madness will continue. If someone knows how to solve these problems, please take action!
I grew up in the valley and left long ago, but the vibe I always got in Spokane was the city was just depressing. North Idaho always seemed a much better feel
I've lived in 4 different countries and in big cities. I've never been robbed so much as I did in Spokane. I heard an AR going off a few blocks away during Thanksgiving. Friends had a stray bullet through their dining room window (it wasn't a driveby). You made a good choice.😅
Agree on Spokane News. I looked at it way too much before moving and was very concerned. And Reddit is full of people with not much else to do. Spokane has so much to offer. Crime is still unsettling as well as the homeless situation. As in all cities. People need to vote differently in Washington to see good changes.
I’ve lived in Houston, Austin, Baltimore, and L.A. and I love it here. So pretty with the tall trees. 🌲 and river. Downtown can be sketch but I love way north up in Mead.
I love spokane, i miss spokane, but you're heavily sugar coating spokane. Meth heroine and homelessness are what make spokane not as good as it could be. Locking your car without an obvious alarm installed is an invitation to have your windows busted just to see nothing is in there. If you live in a nice neighborhood and stay there, you'll be fine, but if you're out and about, you'll see some shit. Lol, in high school, a teacher got fired at LC and punched the principal in the face after doing bong rips under the bridge it is crazy and I love it but spokane is wild and is called spocompton for a reason
Just so you know. We used to have a zoo. It was a walkable zoo. Called Walk In The Wild. The city was not good at supporting it so sadly it folded. We do have Cat Tails up North. The new re-design of N. Monroe is all well and good, but all it does is re-direct excess traffic to other North/South roads. Francis and the One way streets are now a traffic nightmare at around rush hour so I have to remember to avoid that area at peak times. The excess of growth in Indian Trail, Mead, and the areas up North is causing more traffic on these North/South roads. I see the plan to do the same thing to Division street as a mistake. People will not take the bus and endure long commutes. They will simply divert to other streets. This causes a huge uptick in traffic for neighborhoods near those roads. Assembly, Driscoll Blvd., Wall, Maple/Ash have seen big upticks in traffic as so much development has happened on the 5-Mile bluff, Indian Trail, Suncrest, etc. And that traffic has to go somewhere. So NO I do not support changing N. Division. That will cause a domino effect for residents around there off of N. Nevada too... Years ago they were supposed to put in couplets at various points to divert traffic to the freeway, but it did not happen. Instead the put a freeway plan connecting to the more affluent Mead neighborhood and connecting to the valley/freeway. This does nothing for the rest of the city. But it does help the commuters who work in Spokane and live in Cour 'de lane/Post Falls or the Spokane Valley/Liberty lake residence. Or like I said those living in the affluent Mead neighborhood. Like I mentioned in another post. A definate focus on wealthier residents. You know like how they ripped out a bunch of the Hillyard neighborhood(poor residents)so the people in Mead could have a quick commute to downtown and/or the Valley. I am not liking this Gentrification so much. 😠
I used to play basketball up near Mead and and used to bang Lindsay Stockton. Grew up on W Sumner Ave. If you think Spokane is getting gentrified you need a reality check my guy.
Spokane has all the charm and beauty of a East German factory town. Car jackings, homeless everywhere, hookers, drug dealers on every corner and child molesters caught and released in the paper nightly.
Just depends on what you think is “better.” It’s a smaller town, lots of newer construction homes going on in the town of Deer Park but you can also find a lot of holes on acreage. Definitely quieter up there, you’ll just be driving the 30 minutes into Spokane pretty regularly but I know that’s not a big deal for most people
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Well, the mental health / homeless situation has gotten much worse since 2016, when Catholic Charities decided to build about 13 new buildings . . "If you build it, they will come" All of this comes at the same time when other Real Estate Investors pouring millions into revitalizing Downtown?? Property Value Wars?
I grew up on the I-5 Corridor, so Spokane is really ugly, boring and what was once called "ghetto". Compared to where I grew up, Spokane is not a great place to live. We can't even get it together enough to plow the streets in a timely manner! 😂Our property taxes have been jacked up so far so fast, it has nearly tripled in 5 years, yet zero necessary improvements have been made. Most streets do not have stop signs. If the road needs work, you have to call the city to request it. Most of our alleys are unpaved, all of them unlit. If you rely on public transportation, the system here could be improved, and does not serve surrounding communities adequately. I'm used to incredible views and endless things to see and places to go. Spokane does not have a zoo or anything else that could cost money, but we are now paying the tax rate of places who do, with zero benefit to us all. This used to be an affordable place to live, but thanks to investors, we are suddenly the same prices as Seattle's yesterday, but zero Seattle. People who move here from other states sometimes love it, and sometimes wish they had never seen it. I heard one man from Texas say it was "beautiful here!" and I thought he was crazy! 😂 A woman from Sacramento couldn't get OUT of here fast enough! 😅 If you came from somewhere, Spokane sucks. If you came from nowhere, this could be an improvement, although these new costs may not even be worth it.
So in other words turning off of divion is going into the slums of Spokane and so not a good way to judge it as a whole? I think that was what you were trying to say nicely. My dad lived up around Deer park and Usk in the woods. So have only ever been through Spokane not really in it. That being said my impression was it has to many one way streets and long sections of stuck in a direction. Maybe that's just the parts I have been through. But hearing its got a decent bus system is good and by the sounds of it the town management (all those numerous positions) have a bunch of caring people actually making it better. I was just wondering what was disagreeable about Spokane and instead its a vid about what made it good. If I was to guess at something flawed about Spokane; I would say it always made me think of a place people would rather work in then live in. I got that impression because it looked big-city ish and Grungy but last time I was in hat area was a while back. Love your idea for a channel by the way. I hope other towns have realitors like yourself; speaking the good word about the many communities out there.
Though the many one-way streets may be confusing for newcomers (but who doesn't have smartphone navigation nowadays?), they're a boon for traffic management.
@@this_epic_name I see it less as management and more as tyranny. To be fair grew up in mostly smaller communities. I see it as tyranny because they go so far before turn around options are available to often. Unfair as this may be I use one from Colorado as the best example of this issue. Going from Denver to Colorado springs if you miss the turn off for Golden you must go to Colorado springs to make the turn around... this was 2003 so in the past couple decades I hope this has been solved. I know using a highway is not that fair but I see One ways as having the same flaws and several of the same benefits. Why should someone need to tackle 4 lights because they missed a turn When there could of been a smaller street that could get you back on track sooner. Maybe its just been the streets I was on; but it seems like a lot of stuck on the one way for 3+ blocks before you can leave it then each time its more than 1 block to get those other lights in order to back track . Spokane and Seatle and Portland and Missola Montana all felt a bit like that to me. Navigation system or not; it seems to be built to waste gas. I am someone without a nav app by the way. No social media stuff for the most part either. Comments on You Tube is my closest thing to it.
Ethiopian food, the redditor said. Haha If you ever had Ethiopian food you would know it's just basic ingredients. There's nothing special about it. It's just substance food.
Not sure where you had it - I only had Ethiopian one time during a visit to Manhattan NY and it was soooo good. Complex spices with not too much heat. Maybe worth giving it another chance. Wish my town had Ethiopian. Maybe your Ethiopian was trying to make do without the real deal ingredients (they are probably hard to get). Of course if you don’t care for ethnic cuisine, this may be irrelevant to you.
5:21 - 6:00 - So that explains where most of the money is going to. OVERPAID teachers & administrative bloat. They don't deserve to make that kind of money. Public education was never about making a high income. They don't need that kind of income here in the eastside of the state. On the westside, I could certainly understand.
@@Haydnhalsted Agreed! A teacher making 80-85k with 10 years of experience doesn't qualify as "overpaid" for me. That two-income household you mentioned clearing 175k is just fine by me if both adults in the household want to work. (What we really ought to be striving for, imho, is for a single-income household to be able to thrive, not force every couple to be dual-income just to survive.)
This town is horrible, takes too long to travel anywhere, turn lights too short, no turn lights where there should be, reducing multi lane roads to sing lane and contiue to have city busses on those roads blocking traffic, removing the bus cutouts to prevent the traffic backups, crime, too small of round a bouts, mattress stores, same fast food every block, signs threatening you with fines or jail time everywhere, public lands blocked from public but homeless can set up camp, only big bix stores, street signing is bad, utility companies suck. Only good quality aboit spikane is the amount of cannabis stores and it close to Idaho for cheaper gas, less sales tax, no bag tax ect. Oh yeah i forgot, if you own a car they make you pay a 20 dollar living in spokane fee for road usage that you licensing and gas tax fees goes to, but not in Shitkane washington.
I moved here from kalispell Montana in 2015 and I absolutely love it here! Way more stuff to do, more restaurants, etc
That’s what I love to hear! But I’ve been to Kalispell and there’s not a ton to do there. Beautiful area though!
I’m from Spokane and my partner and I are looking to move to Kalispell!
@@Millenimorphose I say go for it!! The cost of living is more expensive than here but it is so beautiful living there I think you guys will love it. I go back every year for a music festival and my friends that go from Spokane love the beauty of the area
I've lived a lot of places. Spokane is always home. It's a beautiful city, lively neighborhood culture, and great place to settle down and raise kids. It's also more affordable than most parts of the U.S. That being said, if you're young and want more innovative or edgier cultures, you're better off going somewhere else. Spokane is always 10 years behind Seattle or Portland.
Thank goodness... I would rather it stay behind Seattle, etc.
Those 2 citys have gone to hell over the last 2 decades
and are utter trash
Born and raised in Spokane. It has had its ups and downs in many ways but overall I love Spokane. There are always improvements that could be made, but that’s how it is with just about every city. There are so many wonderful people, events, history, and community love here in Spokane that makes it all worth it.
Couldn’t agree more!
I miss cda and Manito park.
But Spokane is a nightmare! I left as soon as I had money. I don’t smoke meth so west Los Angeles wasn’t too difficult
I live in Montana and have visited Spokane quite a bit. It seems quite dusty. A large area of neighborhoods seem dowdy, unkempt, not pleasant. Drug use is rampant. I90 cuts right through the city. There's no real draw. The Spokane Valley Mall is ok. The river area is lovely.
You definitely have to get off the freeway and into the city to see the best parts. I'd agree that the areas close to the freeway aren't the greatest
@@Haydnhalsted the lilac city does have some hidden gems.
Go downtown! I try to visit every year, and it rarely disappoints. The redevelopment and rehab, particularly in Riverfront Park, is fantastic. The bar and microbrew scene is also great for a town its size. I live in the Seattle area (got out of the city proper a few years ago, thank heavens), and I'm always amazed at how quickly I can get from one place to another (e.g. Manito to downtown).
I mean, if you think the valley mall is ok, then other parts of the city should knock your socks off.
As a local, it pretty much all boils down to too much power in the hands of real estate developers. How many substance abuse problems and homeless people could be avoided if people could afford to live indoors here? But naw, keep voting in Al French, keep watching downtown get divvied up by monied interests looking for better ways to squeeze the locals.
There is a strong "good ol' boy" network here tied to real estate, that is for sure.
I'm in Spokane, Jan. 2024. There's a lot of homeless here, downtown. Riverfront is very nice though. Saw a problem on the cablecars that take you across the falls. Like a tourist ride. It got shut down for the rest of the day.
Lived in Spokane for over 60 years. Have seen it transform from a simple town vibe with old fashioned stores and malls to this Yuppie village. In some aspects it is an improvement, but in others it has made things worse. In the 1960's-1980's we had very little crime. Homlessness was not an issue. Cops had much greater authority to crack down on vagrants. You could easily get thrown in jail and put in a drug program and there was no option just to waunder and vandalize property repeatedly with little consequences. Traffic problems were non-existent. Shootings were unheard off. When Californians started to migrate to our area(as well as others from big cities) they saw a market for growing businesses and developing a higher class of businesses and entrepreneurialship. With this interest it also drew the homeless that were out of resources and wanted to escape the high cost of living in large cities. As our popularity started booming into the late 1990's and early 2000's growth started to accelerate. Gangs started to get more established and shootings and drive bys started to increase. As the wealthy came to set up their businesses and buy and build expensive homes. This has driven up the cost of living and increased the rate of homelessness and crime grew. As fentynal flooded the U.S. the problems of crime accelerated in our area. Because of the handholding and cumbya attitude of handling the homeless and the drug issues in our town(and many other cities) we have, shall we say, created our own mess.
Growth is all well and good and I do love the nice variety of restaurants and entertainment venues, and sporting events. But the problem I have with it is the idea that all growth is good. This is not true! The idea that we need so many different sports venues and arenas in the downtown core and elsewhere is crazy! Yes sports events bring money from tourism into a city, but study after study shows that the cost to maintain these facilities and to staff them and to replace them far exceeds their revenue. Now if I am totally off base well I'm sorry, but I think it is pretty close to being accurate. We also need to remember how these things affect traffic congestion and the lifestyle of the locals. The average Spokaneite cannot enjoy the many amenities they rave about downtown if it is too congested to get around and if you can't park anywhere and would have to take the bus(the tweakers and homeless are on those). So the process of gentrification or should I call it Californication is not making the place better for the locals that grew up here, but it is making the place feel more like home for the wealthy so they can have all the amenities they left behind in the big city. What do we get? Out of reach home prices for locals, increased crime and homelessness, increased traffic, increases in prices for goods and services, and more people driving Landrovers. And I laugh when I hear how the transplants have to get 4WD or AWD to get around. I have never owned one until just recently(needed a new truck to replace our 30 year old one). I have gotten around fine with front wheel drive with studded snows. The studs help keep you from sliding on ice which gets really bad on hills and the freeway. I don't live on the South Hill. So no issues for me. 😉 And No! In and Out burgers are not that great. Neither is Chick' Filay. Really just go to a nice local pub/eatery and get a better burger. I still love Spokane, but I am not as welcoming to newcomers as I used to be. 😊
I moved here over twenty years ago, nobody has welcomed me yet. When I got here, all the local youngsters talked about was getting out. There seems to be a small town, cliquish mindset and a judgementality that was thoroughly hardened quite some time before the turn of the century. It's almost like you didn't know how good you had it til the rest of the world wanted some too.
Hey there, I really appreciate your thoughtful comment, do you know of any places in Washington that haven't turned Yuppy yet with relatively low crime? Or is all of Washington like that? thanks
@@Picklemedia Walla Walla, Yakima? Larger city maybe Bellingham. Pullman is a college town, but the Palouse is very pretty. Spokane has much less crime and homeless than Seattle though. We do have smaller towns just outside of Spokane. Like Cheney. Davenport, Medical Lake(did just have a big fire though), Deer Park, etc. Which might be a compromise.
@@ilikecontent2327 thank you so much, what about a town with more older people? (I have a landscaping business I'm thinking of moving there)
try being homeless here. i guarandamntee you we are not welcome or comfortable. i was evicted by my landlord because he decided to sell the home my daughter and i were living in the basement apartment of. Six. Years. Ago. we have been homeless ever since and are living in a car. we were harassed and threatened by the cops for sleeping in our car on a public street. we never leave trash anywhere, we never do drugs or drink alcohol. blessedly a store manager has given us a safe place to sleep. we both have disabilities so we have been turned down for every job applied for. Catholic Charities is somehow, inexplicably, in charge of all homeless opportunities and the last time i called them they asked if i was still disabled and when i replied "yes" the woman very rudely said " We have nothing for you." and hung up. excuse me for calling about every program i think we might be eligible for. the cops have told several of my friends to move out of the county. i'm looking in other states trusting something will come up for us.
I think it all depends on what version of spokane you experience. I'd say it's better than seattle, but I'm over 50.
Born and raised in Spokane. I keep moving out of state but always end up back home.
My problem is the lack mental health resources and how homeless are welcomed and comfortable. Spokane jails are severly over crowded so criminals have to be just let out into communities again with no rehabilitation. There are no consequences for making the city an unsafe or filthy place. Our school systems and parents have very little support to help give our youth a healthy start to adulthood. Therefore, the madness will continue.
If someone knows how to solve these problems, please take action!
I grew up in the valley and left long ago, but the vibe I always got in Spokane was the city was just depressing. North Idaho always seemed a much better feel
I've lived in 4 different countries and in big cities. I've never been robbed so much as I did in Spokane. I heard an AR going off a few blocks away during Thanksgiving. Friends had a stray bullet through their dining room window (it wasn't a driveby). You made a good choice.😅
Agree about the depressing thing, over the border there is definitely a better vibe, Boise has a much happier vibe as well.
Agree on Spokane News. I looked at it way too much before moving and was very concerned. And Reddit is full of people with not much else to do. Spokane has so much to offer. Crime is still unsettling as well as the homeless situation. As in all cities. People need to vote differently in Washington to see good changes.
Sadly they didn't, Spokane went full blue 😢
Yep, it was a sad day. Now everyone will complain about crime. Blue ain’t my color 😢
Rancho chico is the best family owned mexican franchise in spokane
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DeLeon's has good Mexican food.
I’ve lived in Houston, Austin, Baltimore, and L.A. and I love it here. So pretty with the tall trees. 🌲 and river. Downtown can be sketch but I love way north up in Mead.
I love spokane, i miss spokane, but you're heavily sugar coating spokane. Meth heroine and homelessness are what make spokane not as good as it could be. Locking your car without an obvious alarm installed is an invitation to have your windows busted just to see nothing is in there. If you live in a nice neighborhood and stay there, you'll be fine, but if you're out and about, you'll see some shit. Lol, in high school, a teacher got fired at LC and punched the principal in the face after doing bong rips under the bridge it is crazy and I love it but spokane is wild and is called spocompton for a reason
Just so you know. We used to have a zoo. It was a walkable zoo. Called Walk In The Wild. The city was not good at supporting it so sadly it folded. We do have Cat Tails up North. The new re-design of N. Monroe is all well and good, but all it does is re-direct excess traffic to other North/South roads. Francis and the One way streets are now a traffic nightmare at around rush hour so I have to remember to avoid that area at peak times. The excess of growth in Indian Trail, Mead, and the areas up North is causing more traffic on these North/South roads. I see the plan to do the same thing to Division street as a mistake. People will not take the bus and endure long commutes. They will simply divert to other streets. This causes a huge uptick in traffic for neighborhoods near those roads. Assembly, Driscoll Blvd., Wall, Maple/Ash have seen big upticks in traffic as so much development has happened on the 5-Mile bluff, Indian Trail, Suncrest, etc. And that traffic has to go somewhere. So NO I do not support changing N. Division. That will cause a domino effect for residents around there off of N. Nevada too... Years ago they were supposed to put in couplets at various points to divert traffic to the freeway, but it did not happen. Instead the put a freeway plan connecting to the more affluent Mead neighborhood and connecting to the valley/freeway. This does nothing for the rest of the city. But it does help the commuters who work in Spokane and live in Cour 'de lane/Post Falls or the Spokane Valley/Liberty lake residence. Or like I said those living in the affluent Mead neighborhood. Like I mentioned in another post. A definate focus on wealthier residents. You know like how they ripped out a bunch of the Hillyard neighborhood(poor residents)so the people in Mead could have a quick commute to downtown and/or the Valley. I am not liking this Gentrification so much. 😠
I used to play basketball up near Mead and and used to bang Lindsay Stockton. Grew up on W Sumner Ave. If you think Spokane is getting gentrified you need a reality check my guy.
@@Snappy650 You are entitled to your opinion. Uneducated as it is.
Traffic is a nightmare? Go live in Seattle for a bit. The rush hour here is so short and easy, I can't stop laughing with joy when in it.
Spokane has all the charm and beauty of a East German factory town. Car jackings, homeless everywhere, hookers, drug dealers on every corner and child molesters caught and released in the paper nightly.
Is Deer Park better place comparing to Spokane?
Just depends on what you think is “better.” It’s a smaller town, lots of newer construction homes going on in the town of Deer Park but you can also find a lot of holes on acreage. Definitely quieter up there, you’ll just be driving the 30 minutes into Spokane pretty regularly but I know that’s not a big deal for most people
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Nice
Have you been there ?
Been here a long time
Well, the mental health / homeless situation has gotten much worse since 2016, when Catholic Charities decided to build about 13 new buildings . .
"If you build it, they will come"
All of this comes at the same time when other Real Estate Investors pouring millions into revitalizing Downtown??
Property Value Wars?
I grew up on the I-5 Corridor, so Spokane is really ugly, boring and what was once called "ghetto". Compared to where I grew up, Spokane is not a great place to live. We can't even get it together enough to plow the streets in a timely manner! 😂Our property taxes have been jacked up so far so fast, it has nearly tripled in 5 years, yet zero necessary improvements have been made. Most streets do not have stop signs. If the road needs work, you have to call the city to request it. Most of our alleys are unpaved, all of them unlit. If you rely on public transportation, the system here could be improved, and does not serve surrounding communities adequately. I'm used to incredible views and endless things to see and places to go. Spokane does not have a zoo or anything else that could cost money, but we are now paying the tax rate of places who do, with zero benefit to us all. This used to be an affordable place to live, but thanks to investors, we are suddenly the same prices as Seattle's yesterday, but zero Seattle. People who move here from other states sometimes love it, and sometimes wish they had never seen it. I heard one man from Texas say it was "beautiful here!" and I thought he was crazy! 😂 A woman from Sacramento couldn't get OUT of here fast enough! 😅 If you came from somewhere, Spokane sucks. If you came from nowhere, this could be an improvement, although these new costs may not even be worth it.
So in other words turning off of divion is going into the slums of Spokane and so not a good way to judge it as a whole?
I think that was what you were trying to say nicely.
My dad lived up around Deer park and Usk in the woods. So have only ever been through Spokane not really in it.
That being said my impression was it has to many one way streets and long sections of stuck in a direction.
Maybe that's just the parts I have been through.
But hearing its got a decent bus system is good and by the sounds of it the town management (all those numerous positions) have a bunch of caring people actually making it better.
I was just wondering what was disagreeable about Spokane and instead its a vid about what made it good.
If I was to guess at something flawed about Spokane; I would say it always made me think of a place people would rather work in then live in.
I got that impression because it looked big-city ish and Grungy but last time I was in hat area was a while back.
Love your idea for a channel by the way. I hope other towns have realitors like yourself; speaking the good word about the many communities out there.
Though the many one-way streets may be confusing for newcomers (but who doesn't have smartphone navigation nowadays?), they're a boon for traffic management.
@@this_epic_name I see it less as management and more as tyranny.
To be fair grew up in mostly smaller communities.
I see it as tyranny because they go so far before turn around options are available to often.
Unfair as this may be I use one from Colorado as the best example of this issue.
Going from Denver to Colorado springs if you miss the turn off for Golden you must go to Colorado springs to make the turn around... this was 2003 so in the past couple decades I hope this has been solved.
I know using a highway is not that fair but I see One ways as having the same flaws and several of the same benefits.
Why should someone need to tackle 4 lights because they missed a turn When there could of been a smaller street that could get you back on track sooner.
Maybe its just been the streets I was on; but it seems like a lot of stuck on the one way for 3+ blocks before you can leave it then each time its more than 1 block to get those other lights in order to back track .
Spokane and Seatle and Portland and Missola Montana all felt a bit like that to me.
Navigation system or not; it seems to be built to waste gas.
I am someone without a nav app by the way. No social media stuff for the most part either. Comments on You Tube is my closest thing to it.
Ethiopian food, the redditor said. Haha If you ever had Ethiopian food you would know it's just basic ingredients. There's nothing special about it. It's just substance food.
Not sure where you had it - I only had Ethiopian one time during a visit to Manhattan NY and it was soooo good. Complex spices with not too much heat. Maybe worth giving it another chance. Wish my town had Ethiopian. Maybe your Ethiopian was trying to make do without the real deal ingredients (they are probably hard to get). Of course if you don’t care for ethnic cuisine, this may be irrelevant to you.
5:21 - 6:00 - So that explains where most of the money is going to. OVERPAID teachers & administrative bloat. They don't deserve to make that kind of money. Public education was never about making a high income. They don't need that kind of income here in the eastside of the state. On the westside, I could certainly understand.
That's a pretty hot take, I don't think I've heard of someone thinking teachers make too much
@@Haydnhalsted Agreed! A teacher making 80-85k with 10 years of experience doesn't qualify as "overpaid" for me. That two-income household you mentioned clearing 175k is just fine by me if both adults in the household want to work. (What we really ought to be striving for, imho, is for a single-income household to be able to thrive, not force every couple to be dual-income just to survive.)
The affordable housing needs more input.Bedbugs @ the catholic charities is yuck🤢
I'm not from here thank God... it's a cess pool
They do nor like how English is spokane in Spokane.
This town is horrible, takes too long to travel anywhere, turn lights too short, no turn lights where there should be, reducing multi lane roads to sing lane and contiue to have city busses on those roads blocking traffic, removing the bus cutouts to prevent the traffic backups, crime, too small of round a bouts, mattress stores, same fast food every block, signs threatening you with fines or jail time everywhere, public lands blocked from public but homeless can set up camp, only big bix stores, street signing is bad, utility companies suck. Only good quality aboit spikane is the amount of cannabis stores and it close to Idaho for cheaper gas, less sales tax, no bag tax ect. Oh yeah i forgot, if you own a car they make you pay a 20 dollar living in spokane fee for road usage that you licensing and gas tax fees goes to, but not in Shitkane washington.
I hate mattress stores too
Only people that hate it here are ones that weren't born here. They all used to that California weather 😂
crime...