Kindred Spirits?

but I wasn't there on Sunday . . . damn.

I was recently in West Seattle for business and found myself in a quaint little area with fantastic shops, food abounding, and a plethora of “really cool” people. My stay lasted three days. In those three days this is what I learned:

1) I very likely will never live in a big city again
2) Although Seattle is the birthplace of Starbucks and the coffee craze, all the really good places served and promoted Stumptown Coffee
3) No matter how nice PACNW people are, if you cram them all into a city with lots of traffic and limited sidewalk space they are all kind of crappy to everyone else around them
4) I have finally come to accept that I like living in a 100 year old house, in a 100 year old town where everyone knows everyone elses name, has an awesome local coffee roaster, great bread baker, really beautiful with tons of places to walk and bike, very little traffic (knock on wood), and good local wine tasting every first Friday.

Basically, as much as I love Seattle and enjoy visiting, it ain’t all that.

Advertisement

~ by urbanfarmschool on July 10, 2011.