me and my fiance went to seattle last year around September and all I could say is that I fell in love with it. the homeless don't scare me. I did get a guy smoke meth in front of me but he kept his distance. I'm from San antonio where they go up to you and ask for money and if you reject they get aggressive. it was pretty clean except for the areas where the homeless sleep. yeah I would definitely go back
Thank you for making this informative video! I saw Seattle slowly start to decline around 2013, and moved out in 2017. I'm going back to visit, and it was great to see that Pike Place Market is still thriving.
Decline from 13' to 17'?? It had massive growth, job and population, and a significant increase in quality of life in those years. What exactly was *declining* between 2013 and 2017?
22:47 the point of a siren is to alert people, that’s why it’s so loud. When emergency vehicles get out of the downtown area, the sirens can’t be quite or drivers won’t hear it.
Thank you for the tour! So much is there that I have never seen before as I work downtown from 1999 to 2007 before I moved in 2008 due to health problems. I live in California now and I can see
Walked through out the entire downtown area today. It's really cleaned up in the past 10 days. It did get ugly in the middle and tail end of the pandemic but Seattle felt as safe and bustling as ever, I was excited to see it.
That was a nice walkthrough of downtown Seattle and Pike Place. I agree with your feelings on all the glass towers in Denny Triangle, just no character. Things are similar up here in Vancouver. In fact, Amazon has leased a lot space in our downtown core. And on the other hand we're plagued with graffiti, crime, vandalism and homelessness. This seems common with cities along the west coast. I look forward to more of your videos. Cheers~
I grew up in Seattle, haven’t been in several years but I don’t even recognize it anymore. It use to be full of unique charm and is now just a glass city of buildings…breaks my heart.
i grew up in bellevue 77-90. UW 90-94. Passive aggressive bs culture. Other than clean drinking water and good weather(no -30) its lame. Thks to Gates and amazon jacking up prices. I left and moved to prairie canada. Bellevue where i grew up is likely still normal Seattle is garbage.
I haven't gone in over 5 years. And have NO plans on going ever again. They can allow their city to die. They don't need my money to do it. You get what you elect! Enjoy that shit, Seattle
@@alexandersupertramp7353 your being ridiculous. Seattle’s downtown area is just like any other large city…there’s parts that are rough and other parts that are great.
I love Seattle, had been drawn to it for years, finally got to move out there in 2016, I hated to see how far down it went during the pandemic, downtown at night was like something out of a post end times movie or something. I had to move back to Georgia in 2021 for family reasons, but I am working on getting back, and so happy to see things going back up, cleaning up and such, Seattle has such potential, and I'm proud to call it home.
@@sp3_outdoorsYour sister doesn't need prayer cause she lives in Seattle. I have a family member that works in an office for low-income apartments on 3rd avenue, which has a lot of homeless who are sometimes openly doing drugs. My relative has worked at this place for years and loves her job. I also have another relative who lives downtown and loves it. It might look scary seeing a bunch of homeless on the street (some openly doing drugs) but in all my years taking public transportation, walking around everywhere downtown I've been harassed once. And that was way back in the day, many years ago, by some insecure girl that couldn't handle sharing the sidewalk with me because she felt intimidated by my looks. There is crime downtown that happens just like crime happens anywhere else. There are a lot of police downtown and people like the DSA (Downtown Seattle Association) who have cleanup crews and ambassadors who wear uniforms and stand around corners and are available for assistance, such as directions, needing security, etc etc.. I've had DSA bring chalk for my kids to use and tell a homeless guy smoking close to the kids playground to move away from the playground so my kids didn't have to inhale his cigarette smoke. There is a light rail system underground and plenty of security there as well. And last time I went to Pike Place Market there were a couple of cops hanging out helping people and joking around. So, as someone who grew up here and worked downtown your sister should be fine.
Hi Martin and Suzi. I miss Seattle since moving to Huntington Beach a few years ago, so thanks for posting this video. It’s a bit of nostalgia. Fun fact: the pike place Starbucks is actually not the first of their stores!
If your a democrat then it doesn’t matter where You move, if You voted democratic then the drugs coming across and feeding the problem will continue! I was born there and grew up there. And my stupid family members God bless them keep voting for this and just don’t seem to know any better! I got lucky and live in the south now! Red states are amazing! I’m ashamed to be from there! Very sad. Peace
This is common in boom / bust cycles. Construction schedules take several years-these were likely underway pre-pandemic. New buildings are not an indication of recovery. Those buildings will largely stay empty during economic decline and held by foreign investors.
They’re already full. Even with the new buildings Seattle has the highest commercial office occupancy rate in its history. It is almost impossible to comprehend how large Amazon, Google, and Facebook are.
I'm moving to Seattle in June and even just this walk from when I was there in January looks a lot different! It's definitely cleaner, which is nice to see 🙂 This was such a great walkthrough!
I’m an overseas visitor with my family to Seattle on 13th June 22 and please do not be fooled by new buildings - the place is a disgusting nightmare with maniac people running all over the place - urinating & sleeping in doorways- downtown is with empty lettings everywhere & abandoned. We are only here for a cruise but I would not be surprised if they also depart as their passengers are extremely scared and frightened by the atmosphere. I see a false recovery & certainly would not invest there- downtown is a ghost town with very little activity👎👎👎👎
31:06 If I recall right it was that way back in the early 80's and probably before then. 35:00 I've been living in Raymond, Washington for almost 20 years and my mother tells me not to go walking in downtown Seattle because the crime is a lot worse than it used to be. I lived on Capital Hill for about 20 years and my new Van got stolen three times in the first year or so and that was before I moved to Raymond. I've noticed that prostitutes are quite prominent on Aurora Avenue within the city limits.
I don’t get how such a densely-populated city can look so dead in its core; there are towns of 100,000 in Europe populated by old folks that look more poppin’ than Seattle Metro does lol
More accurately, it’s that Seattle is NOT densely populated. The city core is tiny and has almost no residential buildings. During the pandemic, all the office workers stopped going down there. There are hardly any grocery stores, shopping, anything, just offices and restaurants only open for lunch. So, when the police started closing down the tent cities, the homeless just kind of spread out to the empty areas, which were down by the offices. Before the pandemic there were too many workers for the homeless to be there. Very few the buildings in this video were residential. Seattle has almost no residential in the downtown area.
Thank you for the entertaining walkthrough of downtown Seattle (thank you for showing street signs, gave me a reference.). I grew up and lived in Seattle 1950-1985. (BTW, I cringed every time you said Denny Triangle. That body of water you kept referring to as the sea, is Puget Sound! The 1st Starbucks was not at Pike Place Market, it was on 1st Avenue). Seattle used to be gorgeous, fun, safe, exciting, entertaining and an amazing city to live in!!! It's February 2023 now, a year after your video. Amazon, Microsoft, and others have just had gigantic lay-offs. Nike joined Columbia, Frederick & Nelson, Bon Marche, REI, and so many more lovely stores, closed. The police department is offering a $10,000.00 bonus to join, and not getting takers! I believe the caring, intelligent, good people of Seattle will eventually solve the horrendous problems facing Seattle today. In my day Californians sold their over-inflated priced homes and moved up to the beautiful Pacific Northwest and drove up real estate prices, ruining the housing market for hard working families. Shame on you real estate opportunists ruining family life in Seattle!!! Are Californians doing it again? Bringing drug dealers, gangs, the mentally ill and addicted homeless, professional criminals, narcissistic self centered generation of "me-first" spoiled brats? Seattle has all the natural beauty you could ever want in a city, now let the intelligent people fix what is broken, and then you can show us another walkthrough video of amazing, beautiful, entertaining, exciting downtown Seattle for us to enjoy!!! BTW, nice editing, but the overwhelming abundance of graffiti gave you away, lol.
Thank you for the thoughtful comment and watching. Ah yes, they have now rebranded that area as Denny triangle and it's all 40 story towers. They also rebranded the sea! en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Salish_Sea
I hate having to take my kid downtown to get somewhere. Few days ago a man on drugs walked right up to my daughter and I and try to sell us Xannies. My child's only 12 🙄 Seattle is nothing like it was . I have lost hope for the city I once loved and came from .
Move here from the suburbs of L.A. 2 years ago, Seattle is just embarrassing , infested with so much crimes, homeless, graffiti everywhere, business boarded up from windows being smashed. I would not recommend any visiting, you'll be disappointed to the problems of people try to hide
Man this is just so fucking messed up. I've been wanting to visit seattle ever since I was 15 years old..... It was soo full of life and always fun. I guess times change huh
@@fiftycaliber2972 there are still pockets of great things to see and go in Seattle. But the downtown is a wreck, the arty vibe of Fremont is long gone, Ballard is trashed, not enough police to handle the psycho drug addicts, on and on
That’s true but what really killed it is Amazon. Sure the AWS developers making $300k a year have it great (there was never any crime or homeless tents near the Amazon campus!), but everyone else has it rough. The people running those restaurants and bars that gave it character have no chance to buy a house or raise a family in the region). I recently got preapproved for a $1.3 million mortgage. There is no house for sale for $1.3 million and basically I have no hope of buying a house. I’ve lived in Seattle my whole life.
I was a teen in the 90's and worked and hung out downtown. To me Seattle seems pretty much the same as before. There are a lot of closed businesses, but there is still a lot to do in the city. Not sure why some people freak out saying they won't go to Seattle. 3rd Avenue is still 3rd Avenue from the 90's. I've been downtown in the day and night with my kids and nothing's ever happened. And as someone who has gotten around on public transportation throughout my life there are dangerous people everywhere. And a lot of good people everywhere. I was downtown lastnight and saw cops parked on the sides of the street. Also there's security in some of the stores. I didnt feel unsafe at all. Sure, there are a lot of homeless , sometimes openly doing drugs, but in all my years never had a homeless person harrass me. And homeless are everywhere, not just in Seattle.
Seattle and King County ranked as the third area in the nation with the most homeless people in 2020, recording roughly 11,700 people living on the streets. Washington state ranks fifth across the country for its homeless population, at 30 people per 10,000 residents.
visiting the national parks, but want to stay in seattle for a day or two for touristy things, will have a car, do you recommend anywhere to stay thats safe? i was looking at downtown but now im not so sure.....thanks in advance!
Downtown is not really a nice place to stay. I would choose a hotel in one of the neighborhoods. Around lake Union could be nice. Uptown might be my top choice
The worst place is downtown.its overrun on 3rd Ave where entire public transportation. While they pick up trash to hide ongoing implosion Yet Not Seeing The troublemakers been swept around corner where all the buses run
I was just there and took the monorail to the science center. There were so many shoppers it was incredible. The homeless are still around, and tent cities in Ballard outskirts. They cleaned up Capitol Hill, but who knows for how long. I never thought the city was going to die. That's just fake news talking.
I be live in Ballard- I can assure you the homeless are not on “the Ballard outskirts”. They are all over. What does that even mean?? The outskirts would be other neighborhoods. Yes, after all the riots and fires, destruction Capitol Hill is cleaned up. But many of the funky restaurants are long gone. Tons of druggies living in the streets, graffiti.
@@Sarahthompson2237 That’s true but the funky restaurants were on their way out regardless of the pandemic and everything due to land prices. The pandemic sped it up for sure, but it’s the nature of increasing land value. Consider any longstanding character-providing restaurant. It either leases or owns its building. The land value has increased at least tenfold in the last 10-15 years. If it leases, the property owner can either sell the property, or raise the rent dramatically when the lease expires. Either one is likely to put the restaurant out of business (if they sell, the restaurant will be torn down). I mean, if a restaurant has a 30-year lease, that can make it seem like a neighborhood mainstay, but really it had an expiration date the entire time. If it owns its property, the owner is in better shape, but that just sets the life of the restaurant to the career of the owner. Once he or she retires, either a family member or close friend takes over and keeps running it the same, or the owner just sells and the new owner changes everything (or tears it down). The former does happen sometimes - I’m sure Dick’s Drive-In owns all their properties and the family is dedicated to keeping the restaurants running consistently, which is why they’re still around and are able to treat their employees well, but it’s a rarity among smaller restaurants. Today, in general, the only way for a restaurant to operate is for it to be a chain, with streamlined logistics and lesser operating costs (including worker pay!), or for trendy restaurants to pop in, run at break-neck speed for a year or two, and close down once their status as the cool new place to be starts to wane. Nothing killed the cool vibe of Seattle more than Amazon.
@@asmodiusjones9563 Are you out of you f.....g mind?? Amazon??? I just drove thru downtown Seattle today. Amazon is NOT the problem. I grew up here. was still one of the most beautiful cites in the country 10 years ago. It is now an absolute embarrassment, and I can assure you Amazon is not the cause. That is one of the most ignorant things I have ever heard, and I am 61 years old so I have heard a lot of stupid things.
@@asmodiusjones9563 What killed the cool vibe is avarice. It became a money town. The uncool moved in and brought their worthless relatives with them, who all proceeded to start begging change. When people tried to help them, they got worse, and the hippies who made Seattle fun all moved away from the filth.
@@aaronkonstantine2794 He's not being pessimistic he's being realistic something you people in Seattle need to start doing instead of living in a rainbow and roses fairytale world this city is a mess. Get your head out your ass.
This is very eye-opening but in the interest of the viewers recalling the areas affected by the lockdown like Belltown that were shuttered closed and never returned to reopen, is also the same in NYC. Noting the problems with ‘homeless encampments’ surrounding these spaces three years before the pandemic was visibly problematic under Mayor Jenny Gurkin. Belltown was thriving and still had hotspots for nightlife and socializing places along First Avenue. The original Starbucks was [normally] not a problem with walking into it then, and seeing this long line out the door in that timeframe as I recall visiting The Market back then. But noted that these lines now (02/2022) are highly reminiscent of it’s popularity when it first opened (back-in-the-day c. 1984) and the lines did fly around the corner for years over time until it became less so and just gentrified as Starbucks expanded- within Seattle. Then, nationwide. Then, globally. The ebb is still interesting. It’s nice to know more about the drug problems in the Westlake Mall plaza. The food court was switched out many years beforehand for a clothing outlet. But maybe they should think about reinventing the spaces as it was. And sad to see that the McDonalds closed on the corner- across from the former Bon Marché building. The central shopping core in Seattle is obviously outright dismal and unattractive by comparison to the retail stores in places within NYC right now. The recovery despite major downturns and criminal issues is by far still the best after the economy began churning up businesses. Though, many businesses remain shuttered and abandoned like before the Great Recession (2008-2010). As a former Seattlelite- Broadway by example changed dramatically over the decades. And what was really a great business and fashionable retail place was overtaken by the newer condos built and the transit station removing historical places of interest. Very lackluster and not very appealing as the downturn continues to abate its general attraction. There was a time when traffic to cars was not allowed in the Market too. Third Avenue, as I recalled was still bustling with businesses up until the beginning of 2018, before the crisis started. And it’s historical to reference this video as a guideline to then and now and in years past as we New Seattle during the 70s-80s. Make more. Since you were at Amazon ! It’s such a point of course seeing the expansions there in the urbanization and latest to newest construction développement updated through this walking tour. Amazing … but one point in case about « cleanliness » vs. modernizations there, vs. NYC- it’s not the same as described. The tourism here outpaces Seattle’s most populous tourist attractions and retail businesses in the downtown core. Surely watching the ground covered on a Sunday no less, it’s extremely quieter than than being anywhere in Manhattan or elsewhere around NYC. Insofar as trash, we’ll, NYC overall per square mile is in fact probably the same as Seattle if not it’s equivalent given the amount of human waste and trash that is present for us and not unknown. The major differences between the West Coast cities and NYC-is homelessness encampments. They do not overrun major thoroughfares like it gas in L.A., San Francisco and Seattle. Though homeless people have become a serious problem and threat to public safety here as well. So the comparatives judged by this and NYC today (05/2022), is definitely not a greater balancing of peopling vs. urbanized life. NYC still has what Seattle lacks aside it’s greater commerce. That stands to be revitalized. Whereas here it’s not a major issue. Or, tourism overall like there. Which is not that great based on what’s going on with the transitioning from pre-Covid standards.
Even with the birth of a new nation within Seattle (Chaz/chop), developers still keep building luxury buildings amongst the riots and burning. You can’t stop the greedy/money juggernaut. I own a few rental properties in cities neighboring Seattle since 2010, 2020-2022 has been booming for me.
I'm jealous, I want to move back to Tampa, my best friend owns an island with a bar in the bay, can't find anything here in Seattle that can compare to a private island in the sun.....oh look, there a needle on the ground!! 🤦🤦♂️
@@daniellauer2553 LMAO.... Its such a beautiful city and the corrupt politicians really did a number on it. It was definitely a positive move on our part. Its nice to wake up each day and go to work not being hassled for $5 bucks, a cigarette, or "hey man, can you buy me breakfast?"
Last time I was in Seattle was the spring of 2021 and it was a nightmare. I told myself I wouldn’t go back. This video convinced me to give it another go.
@@GeminiDiscover oh boy, how is the climate with the police? is the general public for or against law enforcement? If they're for it and police presence is around, I'll consider going back.
Developers bought the parking lots during the time when real estate was cheaper, like 20+ years ago, and parked it. The revenue from daily commuter parking during the week and event/night life parking during the evenings and weekends helps with their holding costs and expenses (utilities, maintenance, etc).
Seattle isn't cleaner. Go to Pioneer Square.. go any of the off ramps... go to James St... go around the court houses... the homeless population ransacked the city. You showed the few good spots, but just last week when I was down there it felt like I was living the movie Mad Max.
@@GeminiDiscover what time frame are you meaning by "before?" Cause how it is now.. I've never seen it like that and I've frequented seattle my whole life and I'm 30.
I have been researching Settle to relocate to, but have been hesitant due to the crime/homeless population not to mention the ridiculous mandates for employment. Your videos create a more calming effect than social media until I noticed the graffiti area looks like the NY areas where crime is terrible. Would like to see more even where Whole Foods is and water views apartments.
It looks like it is only good for wealthy, successful people. New buildings and top companies, but the cash is not filtering to the poor or unskilled. Be nice if they distributed the wealth. Same in the UK. All cash stays at the top, while the rest of us die of hyperthermia.
@@treasurehunteruk9718 Money doesn't keep you safe. An Amazon engineer was walking home last month and was snuck up behind and that person had a baseball bat and took a full swing at her head. She's lucky to be alive, but she likely has brain damage, who knows if she can ever work again. City Prosecutor only charged the guy with mere assault, not even attempted murder or aggravated battery.
@@aussieexpat No-one says you will not suffer crime if you are rich. Wealthy folks still have their homes broken into and are murdered, etc, but the point is you have a better lifestyle. Look at Martha's Vineyard, Chicago's Gold Coast and Bel Air, then look at Nick Johnson's videos of the sheer poverty in the non-wealthy areas. Tents everywhere. I know which area I would prefer to live in.
@@treasurehunteruk9718 the main issue with crime and poverty in downtown Seattle is related to homeless people with substance abuse and/or mental health issues, and most of those people have arrived relatively recently from other areas of the country where there are no support systems in place. In some cases, authorities in conservative areas buy bus tickets for “problematic” people to come to the west coast thanks!). It’s a complicated issue and not easy to deal with, but a lot of money is being spent on various programs. We’ll see what the results are.
Why keep shuffling/sweeping the homeless? So they're forced to rotate spots? It's more work for everybody. These people just need shown a place that it's okay for them to be but we don't seem to have one we just encounter them as eye sores emerge and think about sweeping it off our front porches so we can ignore it again instead of ever taking the time, empathy, and effort to address the cause.
Downtown is just not somewhere I'd want to go venture to anymore. Took my family to the aquarium last summer and just from the parking structure to the aquarium we were harassed threateningly for money.. The crime over on the 3rd and pine area though, 2 murders, all within last 7 days.. Never going back there. Goodbye Piroshky Piroshky. I didn't even get a chance to try you there.. q.q
that lane reduction thing strikes me as idiotic personally...4th Ave is 1 of the busiest streets for busses and people commuting home...they just did this where they have a bike lane instead...may not matter a ton yet, but once things get back to totally normal, it's gonna be ugly in my opinion
Depends on how much money. Can you afford very high housing costs? Traffic is awful. Lots of fun out in The mountains, on the sound. But the city of full of homeless, crime, congestion, Ineffective city govt, not enough police & police under federal scrutiny for brutality. School system is huge, of course mired in problems. But some excellent neighborhood schools. Great place if you have lots of cash. And don’t care about homeless drug addicts living in The streets and smashing up stores
@@Sarahthompson2237 if you have lots of cash Seattle is a place to avoid. Use the cash to go somewhere decent. This is honest advice. From someone who knows firsthand
I just came from a conference in Seattle, but any time I travel, I try to do tons of exploring for content on my channel. There were lots to see! After I'm done with a trip, then I like to go back and watch others' videos to learn new things, now that I had a baseline perspective of the city. A few things that came to mind: 1. Thanks for talking about the Amazon locations and how everything is scattered (including the globes, which I was wondering what they were!). On one of the days, I filmed a walk to the "Amazon Headquarters," according to Google Maps. When I got there, I basically saw nothing -- I was narrating, "Where's the signage? It's a ghost town." It's nice to know that they are just nondescript about their presence. 2. In just the 5 days that we were there, we already saw a big difference in what the new mayor is trying to implement with cleaning up crime in Downtown Seattle. On our bus ride into Downtown, the bus went down 2nd Avenue, and we saw the streets lined with people on the streets. A few days later, that area, Pioneer Square, and other seemed to be swept. We saw multiple mobile police units guarding the streets in a few areas on our final full day there. I was surprised that for all the filming I did, not one person harassed me about my camera -- although I also did try putting it away any time I knew I was near a sketchier area. 3. One of my brother and I's first observations upon seeing Downtown Seattle was, "Jesus, there are so many hotels and new residential buildings under construction -- is this all for Amazon and other headquarters workers?" On one hand, it seemed a bit excessive, but the population does seem large. Downtown Seattle is massive. I'm from Downtown Cleveland, which is a decent size, but Seattle seems like it's four times the size or more. Maybe I'm just losing perspective. Thanks again for the nice video!
I helped build those towers. Until my truck phone I'd clothes everything got stolen. I wound up on the streets for 3 weeks until I could come up with enough identification to fly to home
Have there been any more improvements? Heading there in a week with family (including two kids) and staying downtown. Haven't been since pre-pandemic. I keep getting mixed messaging. Some say it's horrible, others say that it's all a bit exaggerated.
THIS TIMES A THOUSAND. This is the real problem with Seattle. People who have never been here watch Fox News and think the problem is a few homeless people, but the real problem is that Amazon has completely taken over.
The city is beautiful at first glance, there are underlying issuses that are plain to see. I love the Stewart towers, but there are like 1000 apartments with like 300 parking stalls?!
Parking will be a thing if the past within the next 20-30 years. Self driving fleets with Netflix like subscriptions will dramatically reduce the need. Car ownership is already on the decline and it’s about to accelerate
I went to Seattle a couple weeks ago and stayed at Belltown lowkey wasn’t that bad it was pretty bad in the alleys but the street was pretty clean and there was tons of people walking around and people drinking at bars and eating at restaurants, I’ve drove thru downtown they were doing construction on the street they even had security standing by the barricade, but China town was a bad part went there for a hour or so and it was pretty bad tbh… still a lot of people at restaurants and bars etc but the buildings and homeless was worse at that part of the city… in my opinion… I was only there for a couple days… what do y’all think
I'm going in October and mainly going to China town, I hope it's good but of course everyone has a different perspective of cities. I'm from Atlanta so I'm not surprised if they are the same at this time
man, he talks it up big time but to me the place looks just f'n butt ugly. Even on a Sunday. Haven't been back there since 1991 so I'm clueless/behind the times. Grew up in Bothell in the 50s & 60s. The PNW, Seattle had huge character then (without trying) I guess if this is your ideal, go for it and enjoy- many are!
Seattle was a really nice place to go on a Friday night I lived out there in the seventies I lived in Bremerton you should go over to Seattle every Friday night but from what I understand now it's nothing but crap
In Washington State you can carry firearms either openly or concealed. And you can go to your corner friendly neighborhood Marijuana store and pick up 2 oz. I've lived in the north south east and west. California and Washington. Washington is much better; I've been here 22 years and wouldn't have it any other way.
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Is it still worth to move there? My parents went to Seattle 30 years ago, this town has always been their destination to live. But I’m now sure now since the recent videos show the different aspects. I have been watching vlogs of Thai family owning a food truck and selling food in suburb areas there, things look quite great actually. But when it comes to the videos of the downtown area, it gives you the opposite feelings.
Seattle is still one of the best places to live in the world, but it's having problems because of bad leadership. They are all fixable. Millions of people live in the suburbs and never go downtown
@@GeminiDiscover Thank you for your replying. Gotta accept that every city is facing its different problems. The town where I’m living is one of the world’s desired destination, but we locals see a lot of cons here and can’t wait to move out (maybe it’s just like that - someone else’s grass is always greener). I hope things over there will be solved in the future, especially after the impact from the Covid. 😃🙏🏾 The town still looks pretty from the video anyway.
This city is disgusting. This walkthrough only shows the "clean" parts of the city. Show Pioneer Square, show 3rd Ave, show the homeless encampments everywhere and the accompanying heaps of trash.
@@GeminiDiscover : who is cleaning them!? There are dozens and dozens of encampments all down I/5, in the neighborhoods, all the way up to Shoreline, all over Woodland Park. Get real. There are thousands of people living in tents and broken down RVs & they are hoarders . They collect trash all around their tents & campers. It’s filth, there are used needles and crime.
@@GeminiDiscover they "swept" 3rd Ave yesterday in front of city hall, but only because City of Seattle employees are being told to come back to work. Lisa is correct, the encampments along I-5 are really bad too. So much so that garbage is piled up on the side of the freeway, as in on the actual road itself.
@@jacobjonm0511 : what neighborhood are you moving to? Are you a family man or single? Do you like hiking, skiing, camping? Lots to do to avoid the filth of the city
Yes there is a meth-drug-homeless problem in Seattle. But Seattle is not the only city facing this dilemma. I have worked with this population. And I have come to the conclusion that, the majority are permanently damaged. For the rest of their lives. Therefore, there needs to be a permanent long-term solution. I think one solution could be. They have two choices: 1). Get arrested. And go to jail for two years. Or 2). Goto an involuntary, long term, in-house drug treatment facility. And those facilities can be located where the old for profit prisons are located in the United States. I believe most of these for profit prisons have been shut down therefore they are vacant. That's where I would send this population too. Again they either go to go to jail for 2 years or you ship them out to one of these old for-profit prisons. This would clean the streets or sweep the streets of these homeless camps. Now commerce would invest back into that community and it could be thriving again such as Westlake once was. Again, we need to take the gloves off the homeless population. But there must be long-term alternative housing in place before you do a serious crackdown or sweep. Because if you don't provide a long-term solution and that includes housing you're just sweeping the problem for one location to another in a city.
Why don't you walk down 3rd Ave. Jackson St. Westlake Center. Pioneer Square. Pike place market. Pfft. You avoid the bad places real well. Downtown Seattle is crime ridden and not the place to be after dark.
Looks like he skipped 3rd street completely. If you're gonna do a video do it on the good bad and the ugly. It's a whole block that's basically a mini skid row. I don't even go to down town anymore. It just doesn't give you good vibes. Idk why he didn't decide to show that? It's a pretty big drug scene. Even when they "clean things up" it's just a game of ' whack a mole' ....the issue just pops up in another area. I'm not saying I hate Seattle I actually love WA as a state but it has huuuuge problems lets be real.
me and my fiance went to seattle last year around September and all I could say is that I fell in love with it. the homeless don't scare me. I did get a guy smoke meth in front of me but he kept his distance. I'm from San antonio where they go up to you and ask for money and if you reject they get aggressive. it was pretty clean except for the areas where the homeless sleep. yeah I would definitely go back
San Antonio is getting bad. The vagrants are even down on the main riverwalk now accosting people.
Thank you for making this informative video! I saw Seattle slowly start to decline around 2013, and moved out in 2017. I'm going back to visit, and it was great to see that Pike Place Market is still thriving.
Decline from 13' to 17'??
It had massive growth, job and population, and a significant increase in quality of life in those years. What exactly was *declining* between 2013 and 2017?
22:47 the point of a siren is to alert people, that’s why it’s so loud. When emergency vehicles get out of the downtown area, the sirens can’t be quite or drivers won’t hear it.
It's too loud. It can be easily hard when it's less loud
Thank you for the tour! So much is there that I have never seen before as I work downtown from 1999 to 2007 before I moved in 2008 due to health problems. I live in California now and I can see
Born & raised. Thank God I grew up here when things were magical.
Shame on those who allowed my city to burn.
I feel you. I grew up in Seattle when it was a sweet, overcast gray shy sister to San Francisco. It doesn't even rain as much anymore.
🙏🏽💔
@@Acronym6197 The city council by every metric is a failure.
seattle has always been shitty
Sad because I always wanted to visit. Not anymore
Walked through out the entire downtown area today. It's really cleaned up in the past 10 days. It did get ugly in the middle and tail end of the pandemic but Seattle felt as safe and bustling as ever, I was excited to see it.
Not even.
@@Austin-sv6io don't be scared.
actual dump
@@Reimastered more room for the people who want to be here and make it wonderful place to be!
@Eloy Zamora The only people whi want to be in seattle now are bum losers and drug addicts
That was a nice walkthrough of downtown Seattle and Pike Place. I agree with your feelings on all the glass towers in Denny Triangle, just no character. Things are similar up here in Vancouver. In fact, Amazon has leased a lot space in our downtown core. And on the other hand we're plagued with graffiti, crime, vandalism and homelessness. This seems common with cities along the west coast. I look forward to more of your videos. Cheers~
Thanks for watching! We'll be up there soon enough
I grew up in Seattle, haven’t been in several years but I don’t even recognize it anymore. It use to be full of unique charm and is now just a glass city of buildings…breaks my heart.
That's just downtown. The neighborhoods are still great
There is no problem with having glass city, look at the major problem like drug addicts and homeless people everywhere
I grew up near here, can remember the fish and crab smells, the sounds of the harbor. I pray Seattle can be helped
i grew up in bellevue 77-90. UW 90-94. Passive aggressive bs culture. Other than clean drinking water and good weather(no -30) its lame. Thks to Gates and amazon jacking up prices. I left and moved to prairie canada. Bellevue where i grew up is likely still normal Seattle is garbage.
Thanks from a guy who grew up in nearby Tacoma in the 50's and 60's
I do not even think of going to Seattle anymore, especially with out of town guest.
Its not that bad.
You mean without few bodyguards?
I haven't gone in over 5 years. And have NO plans on going ever again. They can allow their city to die. They don't need my money to do it. You get what you elect! Enjoy that shit, Seattle
@@paulden3158 Not compared to Afghanistan, no. But it's not safe to travel there for sure. If you say different, you are discombobulated
@@alexandersupertramp7353 your being ridiculous. Seattle’s downtown area is just like any other large city…there’s parts that are rough and other parts that are great.
loved walking around there, i worked downtown for years
Very interesting tour. Especially of the Amazon campus. I've lived in Seattle for years and I now get lost when I'm in that part of town!
Hopefully it gets taken over by homeless
Pike Place is normally so crowded you can't walk without lots of stopping and waiting for others to move.
Thanks for the awesome tour of downtown Seattle. I'd love to visit Seattle again when the weather warms up and the sun comes out.
See you in July if you’re waiting for the sun to come out here 🌧☀️🌦
I wouldn't seattle is a dumpster fire
Great update and amazing video. Thank you.
All the new buildings: commercial space or residential units? Kind of an important point.
I love Seattle, had been drawn to it for years, finally got to move out there in 2016, I hated to see how far down it went during the pandemic, downtown at night was like something out of a post end times movie or something. I had to move back to Georgia in 2021 for family reasons, but I am working on getting back, and so happy to see things going back up, cleaning up and such, Seattle has such potential, and I'm proud to call it home.
They are not. This is ridiculous propaganda
my sister just moved out there FROM Georgia in 2021... Pray for her please :)
Vote out democrats you'll have great city...
Seattle sucks actually, you just weren't here long enough to find out.
@@sp3_outdoorsYour sister doesn't need prayer cause she lives in Seattle. I have a family member that works in an office for low-income apartments on 3rd avenue, which has a lot of homeless who are sometimes openly doing drugs. My relative has worked at this place for years and loves her job. I also have another relative who lives downtown and loves it. It might look scary seeing a bunch of homeless on the street (some openly doing drugs) but in all my years taking public transportation, walking around everywhere downtown I've been harassed once. And that was way back in the day, many years ago, by some insecure girl that couldn't handle sharing the sidewalk with me because she felt intimidated by my looks. There is crime downtown that happens just like crime happens anywhere else. There are a lot of police downtown and people like the DSA (Downtown Seattle Association) who have cleanup crews and ambassadors who wear uniforms and stand around corners and are available for assistance, such as directions, needing security, etc etc..
I've had DSA bring chalk for my kids to use and tell a homeless guy smoking close to the kids playground to move away from the playground so my kids didn't have to inhale his cigarette smoke.
There is a light rail system underground and plenty of security there as well.
And last time I went to Pike Place Market there were a couple of cops hanging out helping people and joking around.
So, as someone who grew up here and worked downtown your sister should be fine.
what camera do u use ?
GoPro
Hi Martin and Suzi. I miss Seattle since moving to Huntington Beach a few years ago, so thanks for posting this video. It’s a bit of nostalgia. Fun fact: the pike place Starbucks is actually not the first of their stores!
Where was the first?
If your a democrat then it doesn’t matter where You move, if You voted democratic then the drugs coming across and feeding the problem will continue! I was born there and grew up there. And my stupid family members God bless them keep voting for this and just don’t seem to know any better! I got lucky and live in the south now! Red states are amazing! I’m ashamed to be from there! Very sad. Peace
This is common in boom / bust cycles. Construction schedules take several years-these were likely underway pre-pandemic. New buildings are not an indication of recovery. Those buildings will largely stay empty during economic decline and held by foreign investors.
The Empire State building was built during the Great Depression;
I'd say it was a massive success, if you asked me.
They’re already full. Even with the new buildings Seattle has the highest commercial office occupancy rate in its history.
It is almost impossible to comprehend how large Amazon, Google, and Facebook are.
Umm, try again. Most of the new buildings are housing and they are in very high demand. There really hasn’t been a pause in the Seattle boom.
I'm moving to Seattle in June and even just this walk from when I was there in January looks a lot different! It's definitely cleaner, which is nice to see 🙂 This was such a great walkthrough!
He only walked a few blocks. Go a few more south and see what it looks like.
Don't live in Seattle if you don't have to. If you must relocate here, live in the suburbs
Good luck. A 15 YO was shot and killed on 3rd Ave. Also, lots of homeless, public drinking and drug use, prostitution, robberies, and murders.
I live here. It’s a shithole
Graham and south hill seemed ok when I left in 2016
at 2:16... do you guys think he saw that recovery café sign and then, because of that a few sentences later used the word recovery lol
I’m an overseas visitor with my family to Seattle on 13th June 22 and please do not be fooled by new buildings - the place is a disgusting nightmare with maniac people running all over the place - urinating & sleeping in doorways- downtown is with empty lettings everywhere & abandoned. We are only here for a cruise but I would not be surprised if they also depart as their passengers are extremely scared and frightened by the atmosphere. I see a false recovery & certainly would not invest there- downtown is a ghost town with very little activity👎👎👎👎
31:06 If I recall right it was that way back in the early 80's and probably before then. 35:00 I've been living in Raymond, Washington for almost 20 years and my mother tells me not to go walking in downtown Seattle because the crime is a lot worse than it used to be. I lived on Capital Hill for about 20 years and my new Van got stolen three times in the first year or so and that was before I moved to Raymond. I've noticed that prostitutes are quite prominent on Aurora Avenue within the city limits.
I took one trip to Seattle about 5-6 years ago and I’m glad I went when I did. Got to see what I wanted, and now I don’t have to go back.
thx that was a very informative vid
I don’t get how such a densely-populated city can look so dead in its core; there are towns of 100,000 in Europe populated by old folks that look more poppin’ than Seattle Metro does lol
It's because workers haven't had to go there for 2 years and many people just moved away
@@GeminiDiscover no its because its infested with crime. I live in seattle and people everywhere say "I dont go downtown anymore".
That is also true
@@GeminiDiscover what you said is true as well as rising crime
More accurately, it’s that Seattle is NOT densely populated. The city core is tiny and has almost no residential buildings. During the pandemic, all the office workers stopped going down there. There are hardly any grocery stores, shopping, anything, just offices and restaurants only open for lunch. So, when the police started closing down the tent cities, the homeless just kind of spread out to the empty areas, which were down by the offices.
Before the pandemic there were too many workers for the homeless to be there.
Very few the buildings in this video were residential. Seattle has almost no residential in the downtown area.
Thank you for the entertaining walkthrough of downtown Seattle (thank you for showing street signs, gave me a reference.). I grew up and lived in Seattle 1950-1985. (BTW, I cringed every time you said Denny Triangle. That body of water you kept referring to as the sea, is Puget Sound! The 1st Starbucks was not at Pike Place Market, it was on 1st Avenue). Seattle used to be gorgeous, fun, safe, exciting, entertaining and an amazing city to live in!!! It's February 2023 now, a year after your video. Amazon, Microsoft, and others have just had gigantic lay-offs. Nike joined Columbia, Frederick & Nelson, Bon Marche, REI, and so many more lovely stores, closed. The police department is offering a $10,000.00 bonus to join, and not getting takers! I believe the caring, intelligent, good people of Seattle will eventually solve the horrendous problems facing Seattle today. In my day Californians sold their over-inflated priced homes and moved up to the beautiful Pacific Northwest and drove up real estate prices, ruining the housing market for hard working families. Shame on you real estate opportunists ruining family life in Seattle!!! Are Californians doing it again? Bringing drug dealers, gangs, the mentally ill and addicted homeless, professional criminals, narcissistic self centered generation of "me-first" spoiled brats? Seattle has all the natural beauty you could ever want in a city, now let the intelligent people fix what is broken, and then you can show us another walkthrough video of amazing, beautiful, entertaining, exciting downtown Seattle for us to enjoy!!! BTW, nice editing, but the overwhelming abundance of graffiti gave you away, lol.
Thank you for the thoughtful comment and watching. Ah yes, they have now rebranded that area as Denny triangle and it's all 40 story towers. They also rebranded the sea! en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Salish_Sea
I hate having to take my kid downtown to get somewhere. Few days ago a man on drugs walked right up to my daughter and I and try to sell us Xannies. My child's only 12 🙄 Seattle is nothing like it was . I have lost hope for the city I once loved and came from .
Terrible
You have to know where you're going, get there and then get back.
Move here from the suburbs of L.A. 2 years ago, Seattle is just embarrassing , infested with so much crimes, homeless, graffiti everywhere, business boarded up from windows being smashed. I would not recommend any visiting, you'll be disappointed to the problems of people try to hide
Man this is just so fucking messed up. I've been wanting to visit seattle ever since I was 15 years old..... It was soo full of life and always fun. I guess times change huh
@@fiftycaliber2972 there are still pockets of great things to see and go in Seattle. But the downtown is a wreck, the arty vibe of Fremont is long gone, Ballard is trashed, not enough police to handle the psycho drug addicts, on and on
@@Sarahthompson2237 yeah I was talking about the overall vibe of the place. Still sad to see such a wonderful city dying slowly
L.A. is pretty bad too tbh
That’s true but what really killed it is Amazon. Sure the AWS developers making $300k a year have it great (there was never any crime or homeless tents near the Amazon campus!), but everyone else has it rough. The people running those restaurants and bars that gave it character have no chance to buy a house or raise a family in the region).
I recently got preapproved for a $1.3 million mortgage. There is no house for sale for $1.3 million and basically I have no hope of buying a house. I’ve lived in Seattle my whole life.
I was a teen in the 90's and worked and hung out downtown. To me Seattle seems pretty much the same as before. There are a lot of closed businesses, but there is still a lot to do in the city. Not sure why some people freak out saying they won't go to Seattle. 3rd Avenue is still 3rd Avenue from the 90's. I've been downtown in the day and night with my kids and nothing's ever happened. And as someone who has gotten around on public transportation throughout my life there are dangerous people everywhere. And a lot of good people everywhere. I was downtown lastnight and saw cops parked on the sides of the street. Also there's security in some of the stores. I didnt feel unsafe at all. Sure, there are a lot of homeless , sometimes openly doing drugs, but in all my years never had a homeless person harrass me. And homeless are everywhere, not just in Seattle.
Why everything is empty? Why the streets are not crowded?
Seattle and King County ranked as the third area in the nation with the most homeless people in 2020, recording roughly 11,700 people living on the streets. Washington state ranks fifth across the country for its homeless population, at 30 people per 10,000 residents.
visiting the national parks, but want to stay in seattle for a day or two for touristy things, will have a car, do you recommend anywhere to stay thats safe? i was looking at downtown but now im not so sure.....thanks in advance!
Downtown is not really a nice place to stay. I would choose a hotel in one of the neighborhoods. Around lake Union could be nice. Uptown might be my top choice
I got a month off in april 2020 here in the NW. Then I was back to work full steam. Y’all still haven’t come back to the office in 2022?
No I still haven't been back 😆
The worst place is downtown.its overrun on 3rd Ave where entire public transportation. While they pick up trash to hide ongoing implosion Yet Not Seeing The troublemakers been swept around corner where all the buses run
Beautiful city!
This is an awesome tour of Downtown Seattle. Kudos! 💪
You can see the homeless at the 21:30 Mark of his video on the left
I was just there and took the monorail to the science center. There were so many shoppers it was incredible. The homeless are still around, and tent cities in Ballard outskirts. They cleaned up Capitol Hill, but who knows for how long. I never thought the city was going to die. That's just fake news talking.
I be live in Ballard- I can assure you the homeless are not on “the Ballard outskirts”. They are all over. What does that even mean?? The outskirts would be other neighborhoods.
Yes, after all the riots and fires, destruction Capitol Hill is cleaned up. But many of the funky restaurants are long gone. Tons of druggies living in the streets, graffiti.
@@Sarahthompson2237 That’s true but the funky restaurants were on their way out regardless of the pandemic and everything due to land prices. The pandemic sped it up for sure, but it’s the nature of increasing land value.
Consider any longstanding character-providing restaurant. It either leases or owns its building. The land value has increased at least tenfold in the last 10-15 years. If it leases, the property owner can either sell the property, or raise the rent dramatically when the lease expires. Either one is likely to put the restaurant out of business (if they sell, the restaurant will be torn down). I mean, if a restaurant has a 30-year lease, that can make it seem like a neighborhood mainstay, but really it had an expiration date the entire time.
If it owns its property, the owner is in better shape, but that just sets the life of the restaurant to the career of the owner. Once he or she retires, either a family member or close friend takes over and keeps running it the same, or the owner just sells and the new owner changes everything (or tears it down). The former does happen sometimes - I’m sure Dick’s Drive-In owns all their properties and the family is dedicated to keeping the restaurants running consistently, which is why they’re still around and are able to treat their employees well, but it’s a rarity among smaller restaurants.
Today, in general, the only way for a restaurant to operate is for it to be a chain, with streamlined logistics and lesser operating costs (including worker pay!), or for trendy restaurants to pop in, run at break-neck speed for a year or two, and close down once their status as the cool new place to be starts to wane.
Nothing killed the cool vibe of Seattle more than Amazon.
@@asmodiusjones9563 Are you out of you f.....g mind?? Amazon??? I just drove thru downtown Seattle today. Amazon is NOT the problem. I grew up here. was still one of the most beautiful cites in the country 10 years ago. It is now an absolute embarrassment, and I can assure you Amazon is not the cause. That is one of the most ignorant things I have ever heard, and I am 61 years old so I have heard a lot of stupid things.
@@martyofarrell1690 here here!
@@asmodiusjones9563 What killed the cool vibe is avarice. It became a money town. The uncool moved in and brought their worthless relatives with them, who all proceeded to start begging change. When people tried to help them, they got worse, and the hippies who made Seattle fun all moved away from the filth.
Be careful if you venture into Chinatown, I follow a sushi restaurant on Instagram, they’re on 12th & Jackson and it looks very scary out there.
They cleared it up.
@@aaronkonstantine2794 For now
@@gawo8375 stop being pessimistic
@@aaronkonstantine2794 He's not being pessimistic he's being realistic something you people in Seattle need to start doing instead of living in a rainbow and roses fairytale world this city is a mess. Get your head out your ass.
This is very eye-opening but in the interest of the viewers recalling the areas affected by the lockdown like Belltown that were shuttered closed and never returned to reopen, is also the same in NYC. Noting the problems with ‘homeless encampments’ surrounding these spaces three years before the pandemic was visibly problematic under Mayor Jenny Gurkin. Belltown was thriving and still had hotspots for nightlife and socializing places along First Avenue. The original Starbucks was [normally] not a problem with walking into it then, and seeing this long line out the door in that timeframe as I recall visiting The Market back then. But noted that these lines now (02/2022) are highly reminiscent of it’s popularity when it first opened (back-in-the-day c. 1984) and the lines did fly around the corner for years over time until it became less so and just gentrified as Starbucks expanded- within Seattle. Then, nationwide. Then, globally. The ebb is still interesting. It’s nice to know more about the drug problems in the Westlake Mall plaza. The food court was switched out many years beforehand for a clothing outlet. But maybe they should think about reinventing the spaces as it was. And sad to see that the McDonalds closed on the corner- across from the former Bon Marché building. The central shopping core in Seattle is obviously outright dismal and unattractive by comparison to the retail stores in places within NYC right now. The recovery despite major downturns and criminal issues is by far still the best after the economy began churning up businesses. Though, many businesses remain shuttered and abandoned like before the Great Recession (2008-2010). As a former Seattlelite- Broadway by example changed dramatically over the decades. And what was really a great business and fashionable retail place was overtaken by the newer condos built and the transit station removing historical places of interest. Very lackluster and not very appealing as the downturn continues to abate its general attraction. There was a time when traffic to cars was not allowed in the Market too.
Third Avenue, as I recalled was still bustling with businesses up until the beginning of 2018, before the crisis started. And it’s historical to reference this video as a guideline to then and now and in years past as we New Seattle during the 70s-80s. Make more. Since you were at Amazon ! It’s such a point of course seeing the expansions there in the urbanization and latest to newest construction développement updated through this walking tour. Amazing … but one point in case about « cleanliness » vs. modernizations there, vs. NYC- it’s not the same as described. The tourism here outpaces Seattle’s most populous tourist attractions and retail businesses in the downtown core. Surely watching the ground covered on a Sunday no less, it’s extremely quieter than than being anywhere in Manhattan or elsewhere around NYC. Insofar as trash, we’ll, NYC overall per square mile is in fact probably the same as Seattle if not it’s equivalent given the amount of human waste and trash that is present for us and not unknown. The major differences between the West Coast cities and NYC-is homelessness encampments. They do not overrun major thoroughfares like it gas in L.A., San Francisco and Seattle. Though homeless people have become a serious problem and threat to public safety here as well. So the comparatives judged by this and NYC today (05/2022), is definitely not a greater balancing of peopling vs. urbanized life. NYC still has what Seattle lacks aside it’s greater commerce. That stands to be revitalized. Whereas here it’s not a major issue. Or, tourism overall like there. Which is not that great based on what’s going on with the transitioning from pre-Covid standards.
TLDR
Even with the birth of a new nation within Seattle (Chaz/chop), developers still keep building luxury buildings amongst the riots and burning. You can’t stop the greedy/money juggernaut.
I own a few rental properties in cities neighboring Seattle since 2010, 2020-2022 has been booming for me.
My wife and I moved back to Fla. We lived on 2nd and Stewart.
I'm jealous, I want to move back to Tampa, my best friend owns an island with a bar in the bay, can't find anything here in Seattle that can compare to a private island in the sun.....oh look, there a needle on the ground!! 🤦🤦♂️
@@daniellauer2553 LMAO.... Its such a beautiful city and the corrupt politicians really did a number on it.
It was definitely a positive move on our part. Its nice to wake up each day and go to work not being hassled for $5 bucks, a cigarette, or "hey man, can you buy me breakfast?"
Last time I was in Seattle was the spring of 2021 and it was a nightmare. I told myself I wouldn’t go back. This video convinced me to give it another go.
It's gotten cleaner but crime is still bad
@@GeminiDiscover oh boy, how is the climate with the police? is the general public for or against law enforcement? If they're for it and police presence is around, I'll consider going back.
Don't waste your time going back
@@kennethturner364 It is expensive? I want to leave Miami. Seattle seems overpopulated.
@@jaynandy4083 Depends on the style of law enforcement. We're not for police presence just so you can be around, so, no need to do any considering.
I'm loving your content, Martin/Suzi.
Julian has a bright future, I think.
Developers bought the parking lots during the time when real estate was cheaper, like 20+ years ago, and parked it. The revenue from daily commuter parking during the week and event/night life parking during the evenings and weekends helps with their holding costs and expenses (utilities, maintenance, etc).
The new buildings are so beautiful brand new🤩
So the nuts can burn them down.
Seattle isn't cleaner. Go to Pioneer Square.. go any of the off ramps... go to James St... go around the court houses... the homeless population ransacked the city. You showed the few good spots, but just last week when I was down there it felt like I was living the movie Mad Max.
It's cleaner than it was before. We have videos of the previous sorry state too
@@GeminiDiscover what time frame are you meaning by "before?" Cause how it is now.. I've never seen it like that and I've frequented seattle my whole life and I'm 30.
@@NotMyPantsBro mid 2020 was the worst of it
@@GeminiDiscover I guess you're right when half the city was on fire :'D
@@NotMyPantsBro oh right, half the city. 70 square miles, up in flames. A trillion dollars in damage.
I have been researching Settle to relocate to, but have been hesitant due to the crime/homeless population not to mention the ridiculous mandates for employment. Your videos create a more calming effect than social media until I noticed the graffiti area looks like the NY areas where crime is terrible. Would like to see more even where Whole Foods is and water views apartments.
I'll show some more soon. There is definitely a problem with crime. There's an effort to fix it. We'll see
It looks like it is only good for wealthy, successful people. New buildings and top companies, but the cash is not filtering to the poor or unskilled. Be nice if they distributed the wealth. Same in the UK. All cash stays at the top, while the rest of us die of hyperthermia.
@@treasurehunteruk9718 Money doesn't keep you safe. An Amazon engineer was walking home last month and was snuck up behind and that person had a baseball bat and took a full swing at her head. She's lucky to be alive, but she likely has brain damage, who knows if she can ever work again.
City Prosecutor only charged the guy with mere assault, not even attempted murder or aggravated battery.
@@aussieexpat No-one says you will not suffer crime if you are rich. Wealthy folks still have their homes broken into and are murdered, etc, but the point is you have a better lifestyle. Look at Martha's Vineyard, Chicago's Gold Coast and Bel Air, then look at Nick Johnson's videos of the sheer poverty in the non-wealthy areas. Tents everywhere. I know which area I would prefer to live in.
@@treasurehunteruk9718 the main issue with crime and poverty in downtown Seattle is related to homeless people with substance abuse and/or mental health issues, and most of those people have arrived relatively recently from other areas of the country where there are no support systems in place. In some cases, authorities in conservative areas buy bus tickets for “problematic” people to come to the west coast thanks!). It’s a complicated issue and not easy to deal with, but a lot of money is being spent on various programs. We’ll see what the results are.
Благодаря за разходката и милите спомени.
Not one homeless person? You are a fine video editor.
Why keep shuffling/sweeping the homeless? So they're forced to rotate spots? It's more work for everybody. These people just need shown a place that it's okay for them to be but we don't seem to have one we just encounter them as eye sores emerge and think about sweeping it off our front porches so we can ignore it again instead of ever taking the time, empathy, and effort to address the cause.
Downtown is just not somewhere I'd want to go venture to anymore. Took my family to the aquarium last summer and just from the parking structure to the aquarium we were harassed threateningly for money.. The crime over on the 3rd and pine area though, 2 murders, all within last 7 days.. Never going back there. Goodbye Piroshky Piroshky. I didn't even get a chance to try you there.. q.q
that lane reduction thing strikes me as idiotic personally...4th Ave is 1 of the busiest streets for busses and people commuting home...they just did this where they have a bike lane instead...may not matter a ton yet, but once things get back to totally normal, it's gonna be ugly in my opinion
They think people don't need to drive as much, but don't truly provide alterative for most
There is best 7 eleven right in front of West precinct
I'm finally leaving the city for good in June.
Where to??
@@GeminiDiscover Boca Raton, Fl, one of from favorite towns in the states.
Do this same thing around 11pm at night plz!
I live in Sydney now. I got a job offer from a company in Seattle. Is it a good move from Sydney to Seattle in your mind?
I have never been to Sydney, but I would do it. Weather might a bit shocking though!
I’ve been to Sydney. I’d stay there rather than come to Seattle. I lived in Seattle for 60 years
Depends on how much money. Can you afford very high housing costs? Traffic is awful. Lots of fun out in The mountains, on the sound.
But the city of full of homeless, crime, congestion, Ineffective city govt, not enough police & police under federal scrutiny for brutality. School system is huge, of course mired in problems. But some excellent neighborhood schools.
Great place if you have lots of cash. And don’t care about homeless drug addicts living in The streets and smashing up stores
@@Sarahthompson2237 if you have lots of cash Seattle is a place to avoid. Use the cash to go somewhere decent. This is honest advice. From someone who knows firsthand
@@Sarahthompson2237 Hmm not sure but my salary would be 100,000 per year. Is that a lot of money?
I just came from a conference in Seattle, but any time I travel, I try to do tons of exploring for content on my channel. There were lots to see! After I'm done with a trip, then I like to go back and watch others' videos to learn new things, now that I had a baseline perspective of the city. A few things that came to mind:
1. Thanks for talking about the Amazon locations and how everything is scattered (including the globes, which I was wondering what they were!). On one of the days, I filmed a walk to the "Amazon Headquarters," according to Google Maps. When I got there, I basically saw nothing -- I was narrating, "Where's the signage? It's a ghost town." It's nice to know that they are just nondescript about their presence.
2. In just the 5 days that we were there, we already saw a big difference in what the new mayor is trying to implement with cleaning up crime in Downtown Seattle. On our bus ride into Downtown, the bus went down 2nd Avenue, and we saw the streets lined with people on the streets. A few days later, that area, Pioneer Square, and other seemed to be swept. We saw multiple mobile police units guarding the streets in a few areas on our final full day there. I was surprised that for all the filming I did, not one person harassed me about my camera -- although I also did try putting it away any time I knew I was near a sketchier area.
3. One of my brother and I's first observations upon seeing Downtown Seattle was, "Jesus, there are so many hotels and new residential buildings under construction -- is this all for Amazon and other headquarters workers?" On one hand, it seemed a bit excessive, but the population does seem large. Downtown Seattle is massive. I'm from Downtown Cleveland, which is a decent size, but Seattle seems like it's four times the size or more. Maybe I'm just losing perspective.
Thanks again for the nice video!
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I helped build those towers. Until my truck phone I'd clothes everything got stolen. I wound up on the streets for 3 weeks until I could come up with enough identification to fly to home
Have there been any more improvements? Heading there in a week with family (including two kids) and staying downtown. Haven't been since pre-pandemic. I keep getting mixed messaging. Some say it's horrible, others say that it's all a bit exaggerated.
The hotspots like 3rd Ave and pioneer square are horrible. The rest seems alright right now
@@GeminiDiscover Thanks and that's great to hear. Such a wonderful city and glad that there are some improvements. Hopefully they continue!
@@GeminiDiscover how is Denny park over to the space need and SLU? Is the northern part of downtown generally pretty okay or no?
When I worked for Denver whenever there was an arrest of a homeless person we would give them the choice of jail or a one-way bus ticket to Seattle.
That's a pretty big dick move. We should send them back
Are there still a lot of tents and drugs?
A lot less than before, but yes
The small businesses were destroyed and replaced with huge corporations that own everything.
So, that's good? Because it's shiny?
THIS TIMES A THOUSAND. This is the real problem with Seattle. People who have never been here watch Fox News and think the problem is a few homeless people, but the real problem is that Amazon has completely taken over.
Great vocabulary 😎
It got worse the stores in downtown seattle all closed at 7pm or 8pm
Does Frazier and Niles still live there?🤓
The city is beautiful at first glance, there are underlying issuses that are plain to see. I love the Stewart towers, but there are like 1000 apartments with like 300 parking stalls?!
Parking will be a thing if the past within the next 20-30 years. Self driving fleets with Netflix like subscriptions will dramatically reduce the need. Car ownership is already on the decline and it’s about to accelerate
I went to Seattle a couple weeks ago and stayed at Belltown lowkey wasn’t that bad it was pretty bad in the alleys but the street was pretty clean and there was tons of people walking around and people drinking at bars and eating at restaurants, I’ve drove thru downtown they were doing construction on the street they even had security standing by the barricade, but China town was a bad part went there for a hour or so and it was pretty bad tbh… still a lot of people at restaurants and bars etc but the buildings and homeless was worse at that part of the city… in my opinion… I was only there for a couple days… what do y’all think
I'm going in October and mainly going to China town, I hope it's good but of course everyone has a different perspective of cities. I'm from Atlanta so I'm not surprised if they are the same at this time
man, he talks it up big time but to me the place looks just f'n butt ugly. Even on a Sunday. Haven't been back there since 1991 so I'm clueless/behind the times. Grew up in Bothell in the 50s & 60s. The PNW, Seattle had huge character then (without trying) I guess if this is your ideal, go for it and enjoy- many are!
How about a report on what Kyiv looks like now?
I couldn't fly there even if I wanted to
Seattle was a really nice place to go on a Friday night I lived out there in the seventies I lived in Bremerton you should go over to Seattle every Friday night but from what I understand now it's nothing but crap
In Washington State you can carry firearms either openly or concealed. And you can go to your corner friendly neighborhood Marijuana store and pick up 2 oz. I've lived in the north south east and west. California and Washington. Washington is much better; I've been here 22 years and wouldn't have it any other way.
I'm done. This situation has exhausted not my patience and my compassion.
Be safe dude it’s a ghetto there!
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Seattle should look nice again after the pandemic. Because the city is rich with many big corporations around.
Junkies are everywhere dude, gangs are also a factor.
@@shatnerhasselhoff not everywhere when all homeless camps will have been cleared!
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@@dnguyen787 stop lying 🤡
So, is it safe to go there now in summer 2022?? How about the homeless and drug addicts in the streets???
It's not too safe but it has improved
@@GeminiDiscover Thanks
Is it still worth to move there? My parents went to Seattle 30 years ago, this town has always been their destination to live. But I’m now sure now since the recent videos show the different aspects. I have been watching vlogs of Thai family owning a food truck and selling food in suburb areas there, things look quite great actually. But when it comes to the videos of the downtown area, it gives you the opposite feelings.
Seattle is still one of the best places to live in the world, but it's having problems because of bad leadership. They are all fixable. Millions of people live in the suburbs and never go downtown
@@GeminiDiscover Thank you for your replying. Gotta accept that every city is facing its different problems. The town where I’m living is one of the world’s desired destination, but we locals see a lot of cons here and can’t wait to move out (maybe it’s just like that - someone else’s grass is always greener). I hope things over there will be solved in the future, especially after the impact from the Covid. 😃🙏🏾 The town still looks pretty from the video anyway.
@@89Reeses you can find a lot more videos of Seattle and the surroundings on the channel. It really is spectacular
It's not worth it at all, it's a shit hole. Lots of other beautiful places in WA.
@@kennethturner364 what are others beautiful places in WA?
Recent Arch UW grad here. They force you to design glass towers in school. That plus policy is why they are everywhere.
Smart decision walking across 3rd Ave rather than walking down it...
Ain't that the truth
If you can run faster than the crooks you're all set
Lmao
This city is disgusting. This walkthrough only shows the "clean" parts of the city. Show Pioneer Square, show 3rd Ave, show the homeless encampments everywhere and the accompanying heaps of trash.
They're cleaning them right now
@@GeminiDiscover : who is cleaning them!? There are dozens and dozens of encampments all down I/5, in the neighborhoods, all the way up to Shoreline, all over Woodland Park. Get real. There are thousands of people living in tents and broken down RVs & they are hoarders . They collect trash all around their tents & campers. It’s filth, there are used needles and crime.
@@Sarahthompson2237 city workers and police
@@GeminiDiscover they "swept" 3rd Ave yesterday in front of city hall, but only because City of Seattle employees are being told to come back to work. Lisa is correct, the encampments along I-5 are really bad too. So much so that garbage is piled up on the side of the freeway, as in on the actual road itself.
@@brickmanengineer1973 yes it's atrocious
Yeahs
$1,800 a month for studio queensboro Queen Anne
I live here currently & i hate it
why hating it? I am moving there from Sydney and I am not sure if it is a good move.
@@jacobjonm0511 a lot of homeless & it’s ugly & crowded and smells like pee
@@jacobjonm0511 : what neighborhood are you moving to? Are you a family man or single? Do you like hiking, skiing, camping? Lots to do to avoid the filth of the city
@@Sarahthompson2237 my work place is in CBD. Yes I like ourdoor stuff and have a partner.
Yes there is a meth-drug-homeless problem in Seattle. But Seattle is not the only city facing this dilemma. I have worked with this population. And I have come to the conclusion that, the majority are permanently damaged. For the rest of their lives. Therefore, there needs to be a permanent long-term solution. I think one solution could be. They have two choices:
1). Get arrested. And go to jail for two years.
Or
2). Goto an involuntary, long term, in-house drug treatment facility. And those facilities can be located where the old for profit prisons are located in the United States.
I believe most of these for profit prisons have been shut down therefore they are vacant. That's where I would send this population too. Again they either go to go to jail for 2 years or you ship them out to one of these old for-profit prisons.
This would clean the streets or sweep the streets of these homeless camps. Now commerce would invest back into that community and it could be thriving again such as Westlake once was.
Again, we need to take the gloves off the homeless population. But there must be long-term alternative housing in place before you do a serious crackdown or sweep. Because if you don't provide a long-term solution and that includes housing you're just sweeping the problem for one location to another in a city.
The homeless population is out of control on the west coast.
2:07, looks quite nice. Honey bucket on the street with graffiti all over, and trash littered everywhere lol
Way better than Portland to be honest
For sure
Why don't you walk down 3rd Ave. Jackson St. Westlake Center. Pioneer Square. Pike place market. Pfft. You avoid the bad places real well. Downtown Seattle is crime ridden and not the place to be after dark.
Nice walk through video - small tip, it's not a good idea to record the homeless, they don't like it
If you want to know what down town seattle really looks like, I'd ask any taxi/lyft/ or uber driver lol
Looks like he skipped 3rd street completely. If you're gonna do a video do it on the good bad and the ugly. It's a whole block that's basically a mini skid row. I don't even go to down town anymore. It just doesn't give you good vibes. Idk why he didn't decide to show that? It's a pretty big drug scene. Even when they "clean things up" it's just a game of ' whack a mole' ....the issue just pops up in another area. I'm not saying I hate Seattle I actually love WA as a state but it has huuuuge problems lets be real.
@@chenanigans I’m going to Seattle tomorrow. where is good to go beside downtown? Capital hill?
Will you miss working there ?
In some ways I guess. Overall I'm pretty glad where I am now
Of all the cities in the world...this is the most breathtaking city to take a steaming crap on the sidewalk.
I can't see mt rainier! Lol
Where are you from? Your accent is interesting