What’s up everyone!! Thanks for watching, this has been a popular video I misspoke when I said “University Ave” It’s actually called “University Way” That’s a good example of how ingrained that local lingo is in my vocabulary😂 Mt Rainier doesn’t have the highest elevation in the lower 48, but it does have the tallest topographical prominence by about 3000 feet. On a clear day it appears to float over the city
Not wanting to go through the other comments, but Mt Rainier isn't the tallest in the Lower 48. Mt Whitney in California is more that 100 ft taller, and there are three mountains in Colorado that are taller that Mt Rainier.
As someone who has lived in Seattle for a little over a year, knowing how to say Puyallup and Alki Beach correctly would have helped me not embarrass myself
Those names can definitely be challenging to newcomers. My wife said she had to practice saying the names over and over when she first moved here, until they became familiar.
Even though I lived there long ago, if I moved back, I would be a transplant. But not ashamed of that. Why should I be? Still, I like the video & learned something. Also funny how boyhood phrases are still in “proper’ usage decades later.
Good catch, someone else caught that flub also. We realized I misspoke after this video was edited so decided to just leave it in. The Ave is definitely a weird nickname!
I used to live in the U district and I puzzled over that too. In Seattle, avenues run north-south and streets run east-west, so I wonder if it was known as "the avenue" in the generic, like "the big north-south road" before it was formally named.
@@alainamccallum6486 The flying fish are at the corner of Pike St and Pike Place so Pike Street technically is in front of the market. But yes, you're correct. The market is named after Pike Place which is the cobblestone street running along the front of the market.
@@LivingInSeattlePNW This can actually be really important. I was stopped by a woman downtown once who was frantically looking to find the Metro Theater. Never mind that the University downtown is Street, she thought it was Avenue, and had no clue that the Ave, was actually Way. Let's not even get started on the clusterf*ck that are the Light Rail stops. I mean I know the why of the names, but honestly, couldn't they have renamed the downtown stop? Also, I'll love you forever for stanning for Capitol Hill. I only started hearing that other one a few years ago, and it makes me unreasonably angry. I'll correct anyone I hear using that one.
@@znachkiznachki5352the Capitol Hill think is a point of contention for a lot of people. I’m aware that there is a generational divide on that one, but “cap hill” is like nails on a chalkboard
If I didn’t get an amazing deal on my condo, I would have left, but since I did, you’re stuck with me. 😂 This guy is a bloody idiot though. Just about EVERYONE in the country calls the official interstates in this country “I-.” It’s not a PNW exclusive and if he actually ventured out more and experienced the country a bit, he’d know that. 🤦♀️
Only thing I'll disagree with you on: Saying "Cap Hill" is more of an age difference than a transplant thing. I grew up within 30mins of Seattle, lived here since 18, and most of my close friends grew up in Ballard. They all say "Cap Hill". But we're in our mid 30s. But people over 40 seem to think its a "transplant only" term. Not sure how old you are, but thats what ive noticed.
Yes yes yes yes. It is Cap Hill! Love this video but I'm a native Seattlite. You have no idea what you are talking about. Next thing is you are going to tell me we don't say Pill Hill. I know I'm older than you and that statement is bullcrap.
I 10000% agree. It’s a generational thing. Every local from Lake City to Rainier Beach aged 35/36 and under says Cap Hill. Everyone 40 & up says Capitol Hill. Transplants say “Uptown or “Central Hill” 😂
Nobody I know calls it Capitol Hill. Everyone just calls it "The Hill." "I need to go to the Hill for..." And ABSOLUTELY don't say you're IN Capitol Hill. One is always ON the Hill.
As a Seattlite I can say that though people are generally forgiving if you mess up most names, I cannot overstate the amount of respect you lose if you say “pike’s place.”
‘The East Side’ In Seattle it means the Bellevue Kirkland Sammamish Issaquah aria East of Lake Washington. Get much further away from Seattle, ‘The East Side’ refers to Eastern half of Washington on the other side of the Cascade Mountains 🏔️
In Everett, we don’t say that we’re flying out of Paine Field, we say we’re flying out of Everett because we are so excited that we don’t have to go to Seattle. “You’re flying to Arizona? Which airport?” “We’re flying out of Everett!!!” Party ensues, and all your friends will volunteer to drive you to the airport. If you’re flying out of SeaTac, then we absolutely have a very important appointment that day
"We should get coffee sometime" If someone says this to you, it's not an invitation. It's just a really polite way of saying: "Sorry, I gotta go, but maybe we see each other around sometime." The correct response is not, "Sure! When do you want to meet up?" It's:"I'll check my calendar and get back to you!" If you move and someone asks you to go to coffee, respond correctly. and if you move here and propose going to coffee with someone, expect them to tell you they'll get back to and then never get back to you. It not us being impolite or rude to you; it's just a way Seattlites (And Tacomans) interact with strangers. It's nothing personal. (usually...)
I too am a native. Another comment involving Mt. Rainier is its hat. If Mt Rainier has its rain hat on, we get rain😅. The rain hat is a round cloud formation hiding the tip of the mountain.
That's a good beginners' guide! Here are a few less common ones: Pill Hill=First Hill (because of all the hospitals and clinics) Queen Anne=Queen Anne Hill The Locks=Ballard (Hiram M. Chittenden) Locks (a popular tourist attraction in what was was once Seattle's Scandinavian neighborhood) The Seattle Freeze=Seattleites are, in general, polite and helpful. They'll give you directions to Pike Place, tell you what bus to catch to the U District and how much to pay, even take a picture of you and your kids in front of the Fremont Troll (which, for reasons I don't understand, is now the Bellevue Troll ). What they won't do is tell you their life story (they will listen to yours, but will wonder the whole time how soon they can escape) or become your instant best friend. Our approach to interpersonal relationships is fairly Northern European, in that we'll be pleasant to all but tend to maintain a small, close-knit group of family and friends as our social circles.
I've lived in Seattle constantly for 37 years and have never, to my recollection heard anyone call I-5 just 5. Also, "Mountain's out" is sufficient. No "the" required. Otherwise pretty accurate.
I use "5" all the time and I've lived here my whole life, "take 5 to 45th and take a right. That will get you to U Dub.". It's generally used when giving directions to be quicker, but in general conversation I-5 is the go to.
I would say the Native American names are something to brush up on. Issaquah, Snohomish, Tulalip, Puyallup (home of the State Fair) just to name a few. If you have those down, you've really got the local lingo managed! Nice video. Keep 'em coming! I've lived in the state all my life. Graduated from Selah High in E. Washington. Went to Green River Community College in Auburn, and then graduated from Eastern Washington University before moving to the Seattle area permanently. Have lived in Bellevue for 25 years. Oh you could do a Seattle v. Eastside (Bellevue, Redmond, Issaquah, Sammamish) thing too if you wanted. :)
Get to be a real expert out on the coast lol with Sequim and Hoquiam and Tokeland. It's fun to say I'm from Hoquiam just to watch people attempt to spell it 😅
The one word that drove home for me the quality of the Seattle weather when I got here was "sunbreak". When it's not summer, having the sun poke out between the clouds is rare and emotionally important enough to rate a special word to describe it. The local weather forecasts make a point of mentioning the probability of sunbreaks.
"You takin' 405 or 90?" "*The* 167 is always a mess, I'd rather take 18 then down to where it connects into Puyallup" We no longer really have "The S curves" but a bunch of us still say it.
The 167 is fine as long as you hit it off peak, of argue 405 is literally always worse. I'm only doing 512 to the 167 to 405 if I really need to hit Puyallup first tho. I'll go up the 5, across the 18 to hit Auburn, or just run the 5 all the way up to 154 and hop over to a from b at the last minute lol. I swear driving around here is more an art than a science
Ah, the S curves. As a kid growing up in the area I would hear traffic reports on the radio and I thought they were saying the name of a town... Wasn't until I was about 12 years old that I realized there was no town on 405 called "Des Escourves" (kind of like "Des Monies"). 🤣😂
These are spot on. A few I'd add: - The International District is just called Chinatown. 'The ID' is newer slang similar to Cap Hill, Chinatown is how it's known to longtime locals. - Bus routes are generally referred to in "the" form. Example: "I hopped on the 36 and got off in Chinatown." - The Central District is - The CD. "Can you pick me up in the CD?" - The Locks, Fremont Cut, Montlake Cut - Regional portions of the ship canal that connects the Lake Washington to The Puget Sound. - Puget Sound is just - The Sound. - Northend generally refers to the region of Greater Seattle Area North of the Ship Canal Bridge / Green Lake. - Southend generally refers to the region of Greater Seattle Area South of I-90 / Beacon Hill. (These North/South boundaries are often in dispute amongst locals.) - King County Airport is just Boeing Field. - South Lake Union Streetcar was coined the S.L.U.T. (South Lake Union Trolley) by locals. - The Space Needle can just be referred to as - The Needle. - You can gauge how long someone's lived in the area if they've ever attended an event at The Kingdome or Key Arena.
Great additions, thanks for watching. How people use the local slang can be really telling. My wife has been here 20 years and hasn’t picked up on everything. Another dead give away is how people pronounce “Renton”
I've lived in Capitol Hill for 20 years and still call it "Cap Hill" from time to time. Also we pride ourselves for not using umbrellas when it rains for some reason lol.
@@bv5430 I feel the no umbrella thing was something someone from Southern California made up to save face that they forgot to bring an umbrella up here but it really didn't used to rain as hard back then as it does now.
Sunbreak! I remember the first time I heard that during a weather forecast. Remember when thefuy would go out of the KOMO studio, stand on the sidewalk getting drenched, predicting rain. Gotta love that.
Great video! I was born in upstate NY, but transplanted to Oregon when I was 3. Stationed at Fort Lewis when I joined the Army, and got every bit of Seattle lingo correct. It helped that I had a very good friend who was a U Dub grad. We went to a number of Huskies/Ducks games together, this back in the 80s when the Huskies usually prevailed. So "the Ave" instantly clicked for me.
Mt Rainier is spectacular and when "the mountain is out" is always wonderful in the Puget Sound, not just Seattle. I've climbed it twice. But as much as I love it, it is NOT the highest mountain in the lower 48, it is fifth highest Mt Whitney CA 14,498 ft Mt Elbert CO 14,438 ft Mt Massive CO 14, 429 ft Mt Harvard CO 14,418 ft Mt Rainer WA 14,411 ft
@LivingInSeattlePNW is completely accurate with what he said. He said “tallest” not “highest”. The mountain is the tallest from base to peak. Mount Rainier starts at 1,600 feet whereas mt Whitney starts at 8,360 feet for example. Mount Rainier is, in fact, the tallest mountain from base to peak in the contiguous 48 states.
Grew up in Seatac and federal way area in the 80s/90s and have not been back since my sister got married back in 2011 so things im sure are very different. The one i say all the time because i go to a lot of festivals and outdoor activities....Honey Buckets. People always look at me confused.
Honey Bucket is a specific brand of portable bathroom. It was common to see those in the PNW back in the day and the lingo caught on - kinda like Kleenex.
@@LivingInSeattlePNWThe term "honey bucket" goes back way before the company, which took its name from the pre-existing term. Originally it referred to actual buckets or other makeshift toilets used on homesteads, logging sites, etc.
We do a thing here that's like a dry understatement where normally people would be using high emphasis. You'll maybe be talking about how hot it was one day, how backed up I-5 was, etc, and a local will say "yeah, a little bit" and that means /very/. I think it's from how Northwestern Natives (Indigenous) speak, where overstatement is sort of using up life energy so we speak a lot of understatement. My great grandparents talked like this almost exclusively, but I always knew when it was emphasis through understatement. It doesn't mean we're trying to take the wind out of your sails, it's just a commiseration in understatement. A lot of the "unfriendly Seattle vibe" thing might come from that avoidance of emphatic speech.
My God, I remember doing just that! 😁 Someone would tell a story and you'd commiserate by playing it way down, but competitively, everyone trying to say the least. I recall pauses at dinner where we'd all be sitting on a one-liner waiting to see who'd go first.
As a native from the southeastern US living in the pnw, now I know why I would clash with native Seattleites when I first moved here. Cuz We emphasize literally everything in the south 😅
"Jesus Christ Made Seattle Under Pressure" a mnemonic for the one way streets that make up Seattle's core, from South to North :Jefferson,James,Cherry,Columbia,Marion,Madison,Spring,Seneca,University,Union,Pike,Pine.
I feel like most people that live along I five in Washington just use the street name of the exit. I live in Tacoma and I just tell people to get off at 56, 84th, or if I want them to go further into Tacoma I tell them to take the exit for 16 and then get off on Union.
As a teen, I was house sitting for my grandmother's neighbor. She was driving me home on the eastside and asked which exit. So I told her *the street* . It was my introduction to some people use exit numbers . . . she was freaking out! She thought she was going to be driving way north.
Puyallup, sequim, and pretty much every native place name in the region. Pronunciation is key. Also useful to know that Mt. Rainier is sometimes also caleld Tahoma.
Thanks for making this video (from a guy born and raised in Seattle). The only terms I would add are "north end" and "south end". Someone below included "east side".
@@TheSalMaris My dad was a Patches Pall growing up! But both sides of the family were more for Stan Boreson. Still got the Christmas Special somewhere.
I'm south in Vancouver/Portland metro area and some of the same slang down here. For us because of the addition of i-205 on the eastside you are either takings i-5 or 205 also used to describe which bridge you are taking across the Columbia river. And "the river" can mean the Columbia or Willamette depending on context but "across/crossing the river" is almost always referring to the Columbia River.
I’ll never forget going to freshman orientation at UofO (I’m from Beaverton, but live near Seattle now), and a girl from Colorado tried to say “Willamette.” She totally butchered it, and I think it’s probably the top one to know for living anywhere in Oregon.
The funniest one to me from that area is the Lewis and Clark Bridge. Nobody calls it that. If you're in Oregon, it's the Longview Bridge. If you're in Washington, it's the Ranier Bridge. Also, through southwest Washington there is only one freeway so I5 is usually just "the freeway".
@@310McQueen There is also the 205, as someone mentioned above. It isn't very long, but it is an additional bridge over the River from the Vancouver area.
Great Vidow - Seattle Native here, graduated Queen Anne Hi more years ago than I'd like to admit, then U Dub in mid 60's. Went and came back a number of times. Your "Seattle Talk" is so true that it almost made me homesick. Keep up the good work!
International District not Chinatown. All the hills. Queen Anne, Beacon, Capitol Hill, First Hill is the same as Pill Hill. The Needle used interchangeably with The Space Needle. Eastside means across Lake WA from Seattle not the east side of Seattle. The importance of stating the directional to any street - NW, NE, SW, N, S etc. Meet at the clock or the pig. If saying Vancouver, saying which one -- WA or BC. East of the mountains means Eastern WA.
1. University WAY is the ave. Historically the road was an avenue until the city realigned street types, and has been WAY since. 2. Pike place Market is at the end of Pike st. But the market itself faces Pike Pl. Hence the name of the market. Cap hill is being used more by some natives, and younger generations, even though it’s not right.
I've lived here my whole life (nearly 60 years), as has my wife, and our UW daughter says "Cap Hill". Drives me nuts, but I guess I'll get used to it. Speaking of UW, some of us also call it "The U", but I think that's dying out.
My assumption is that it's The Ave rather than The Way because it indicates which direction the street is going. Way can be either orientation, but Ave is going to be parallel to the other avenues rather than the streets.
@@futursbrite It's younger people, hipsters and transplants. A lot of that nonsense has to do with how much the city grew in the last 25 years. It's led to weird situations like neighborhoods like Ballard completely changing.
Pop vs Soda! Pop used to be the common phrase for a soft drink. True locals like me still refer to a sweetened carbonated beverage as pop… so you can tell the difference between a Pepsi and bubbly soda water…
@@LivingInSeattlePNWGrew up in Seattle. Still here. It’s always pop. I’ve tried to say soda to be fancy but it makes me think of baking soda which is not something fun to drink.
The Seattle Freeze! Polite but rude. Example: New Resident: Hey what are you doing this weekend? Long time Resident: Having a huge 100+ party with a bunch of people. Most I don't even know. Long Time Resident: What are you doing? New Resident: No plans, I don't really know anybody yet. Long Time Resident: OK Have fun!
@@elliev3593 As someone who also has lived in WA since birth.. meeting people is hard even as a native. But significantly easier to find places to meet people.
I was brought up in Seattle in the U District and went to The Ave frequently (my elementary school was located on The Ave). The geographical name for The Ave is actually University Way. My mom did most of our grocery shopping at the original QFC located in the Village. For college, of course I went to the U Dub! Don't forget, it is "Nordstrom", not "Nordstrom's" and "Fred Meyer" not "Fred Meyer's". And being old school, I still say "The Puyallup Fair", not the "Washington State Fair".
Oh, and when you are in West Seattle "the Junction" specifically refers to Alaska Junction, even though there are actually 3 junctions on California Ave. North is Admiral Junction, which is called the Admiral District, and South we have Morgan Junction which is called just that.
I’m a transplant. I don’t live in, or near, Seattle, but I’m familiar with most of the local vernacular. It’s not just Seattle, but Western Washington as well. Also, umbrellas aren’t really a thing for locals despite the constant rain.
Umbrellas also don't work for a lot of our rain. It never seems to fall straight down. We have a lot of mist. Umbrellas aren't very good for mist. Or you have to put it up and put it down and put it up and put it down because the rain starts and stops so much, why bother. And who wants to carry a sopping wet umbrella around with them 😂
People from Seattle are friendly or sometimes Too Friendly, it's people that are Rude from other States. I say Hi to people and I get ignored like I'm a ghost mostly in Capitol Hill
Paine Field used to be an Air Force Base long before Boeing was involved. My dad was stationed there and retired from the Air Force. I grew up in Everett.
I used to live in the Eileen Court apartments behind the Congo Room on East John back in the day. Our two bedroom apartment was $200/month, and since it was on the ambulance route to Group Health Hospital, no night went undisturbed...but a fun place for three college girls to live.
If you are an old timer from around the Sound, especially from an area with strong maritime traditions, say Ballard, you might know what “soogee” or “skoocum” means. The first means to wash down as in “soogee out that barrel when it’s empty.” The latter means “good” or “great” as in, “Osprey was a skoocum boat, that’s for sure.” Btw, it’s “Puget Sound” or “The Sound.” Never ever “The Puget Sound.” Not unless you’re a transplanted radio announcer. When I was a boy, there was just “the floating bridge.” Or “the Mercer Island bridge.” Then it was “the old floating bridge” and the “new floating bridge” which got all messed up when the old bridge got blown away and replaced by the newest new bridge. I guess now days it’s “the 520 bridge” and “the I-90 bridge.” Is “Hec Ed” still where the Huskies play basketball, or does it go by some corporate name?
My grandparents, my dad and his siblings, myself and all the cousins, live or lived in and around Seattle for generations. This might be an old phrase as I am 43, went to Mountlake Terrace H.S. '95-'99, we always referred to the typical overcast and misty weather as Seattle sunshine, because thats about as close as it gets. I live on the eastside now and still use it to refer to that type of weather. I miss living there but its just too expensive for me now 😢
Thanks for the video info. As someone who has driven down I-5 from Vancouver and spent a lot of time over the years in Seattle this is realy nice to see. Also as someone who has flown out of Sea-Tac, spent plenty of time on the Ave and visited U-Dub most of these expressions are familiar. The ony one I didn't know was about Capital Hill. I had heard a few locals refer to it as Cap Hill so just thought it was the norm. Looking forward to visiting soon to have my special at Dick's, check out The Market and ride over to Bremerton and hope the mountain is out.
It's mostly younger folks and hipsters that call it that. That being said, there has been a trend over the last few decades of using more abbreviations. When I was a kid, it was University Village and the University District. But, decades later, it just feels wrong to call it those things. It's just one of the things that happens when a city grows that much, the pace of everything has to speed up a bit to make up for the gridlock.
This is all in fun, but you kind of made a faux pas in your post. Of course, since you’re from BC, it makes sense you said it as you did, but when you’re speaking about Washington, you gotta specify which Vancouver. We don’t dig when you assume we should think of BC first. We mostly don’t. 😛
You nailed it. I’ve been in the pnw for 10 Yearz, 1/2 the time in seattle, and now I’m living in the actual capitol of wa and all of these tips apply here too;) thanks for the video!
This is more for Parkland/Tacoma folks but Pacific Avenue and Pacific Highway Pacific Highway is also called South Tacoma Way because the road just changes it's name at a certain point, but most people call it South Tacoma Way regardless. Meanwhile Pacific Avenue runs parallel and is also State Route 7... Sometimes called "Highway 7" though usually just Pac Ave. Pacific Highway isn't always Pacific Highway and Pacific Avenue is also sometimes called a highway, but that are different lol
I hadn't even noticed that I don't know any of the exit numbers I use daily. This name-instead-of-number practice also holds true on the Eastside. And just what is the Eastside? It's the area east of Lake Washington, with cities such as Bellevue, Redmond, and Kirkland. Many tech firms are located on the Eastside, the most prominent being Microsoft and Google.
I was working in Mountlake Terrace and gave somebody directions to get to our office. I told them to get off the freeway at 220th. They didn’t show, and didn’t show, and finally called me from somewhere up by Mt Vernon looking for exit number 220. Also: Sun breaks. Nobody else knows what that is.
Mt Rainier is not the highest mountain peak in the lower 48 states. That title goes to Mount Whitney in California. Three other mountains in Colorado are also higher.
Mismeasurements before GPS had Mt. Rainier the tallest, but it's now known that a few Colorado peaks have a higher altitude than Whitney. At a mile taller than any of those, there's no disputing Mount Denali's US supremacy.
Yeah, I should have been more specific when I referenced that. I was talking about the top peak by prominence, and in the lower 48 Mount Rainier is the winner. But for sure, not technically the tallest.
Cap Hill is definitely a thing. Been a native my whole life. Hwy 99 is often called Aurora, even on parts of it that are not actually Aurora. Chinatown rather than the international district. Boeing field rather than king county international airport. The armory rather than center house. I'm sure I'm missing a bunch.
Regarding the weather, be warned, there's a condition called the "Seasonal Affective Disorder" that can be difficult to deal with during the long duration of overcast days, but I suggest, even during the briefest of nice days, when the "Mountain is Out", go outside, walk, bike, drive (preferably in a convertible, with the roof down), have something special to eat... whatever brightens your mood. ;-D
SAD causes Serotonin deficiency, which is awful. SSRI's are prescribed like candy around here. Wouldn't trade our summers for East Coast swamp water humidity for anything. I don't mind the winter in some ways, as it's usually kind of mild, but the lack of sunlight definitely affects me. East Coast gets ridiculously cold during winter, but at least you can have sunlight coming through the windows. It's a trade off.
Moved to Seattle in the seventies after college. In the old taverns a draft beer was often called a "Schooner" and my new locally born and raised Seattle friends used to call a 12 pack of beer " a Half rack". I do not hear these terms anymore plus I moved to Eastern Washington over 24 years ago. Seattle also pronounces West Seattle as if it is one word as in "Westseattle". They also say the suburb in the Southend (All Suburbs directly south of Seattle and roughly north of Tacoma), near the airport, very differently than what people in Iowa call their capitol, Des Moines. Old Northwesterners pronounce the S in Des and the ES in Moines. In the old days none of locals ever said just "Boeing". They liked to put an s on the end of it, "Boeings". As an example, you would hear someone say, "Boeings is hiring". The funny thing Eastern Washington people will say is when they are driving over the Cascade Mountains to anywhere in the Puget Sound area they will say "I am going over to the Coast". Aberdeen and Ocean Shores are on the Coast! Seattle is on an inland body of saltwater called the Puget Sound. Again, this is mostly said my older residents and I feel its use is slowly dying out as more and more new people move into the area. There are so many new people who have moved into Washington that I think it is losing some of its local charm. The population has doubled in the 47 years I've lived here. I do think Washinton has an accent. Ask a multiple generation resident who is in the 40-70 age group to say, "Right On!" They say it unlike anywhere else. Fact checking. Mt Rainier (and locals pronounce it "Ray near") even though it is very impressive, it is not the highest mountain in the lower 48 as the host of the video says it is. Mt Whitney in California is the highest and Mt Elbert, Colorado's highest peak is also higher.
I’ve also heard people say their going to catch the metro from here to there or the king county metro but we just lump it all in as I gotta catch the bus today or ima take the bus to XYZ..
I was bout to get on here and talk some shit but damn this guy got it right! 👍🏼 Also, when we move away from Seattle the mountain pulls us back home. 😊
I moved to Seattle after college in the seventies and moved over the mountains to Eastern Washington in 2000. I had a lot of friends in Seattle because I was active and played lots of sports, but the Seattle Freeze is definitely real. I hardly knew any of my neighbors and I owned a house. People on this side of the mountains are more friendly. They still have a little bit of that Northwest reserve to them, but just like we on this side of the mountains see the sun a heck of lot more often than Seattle people, Eastern Washington residents are a little warmer.
As a brief addendum, the only exit that gets referred to by number is Exit 38 along I90, and that's due to the tons of climbing and hiking right around there.
I live in Bellingham and never realized I don't use exit numbers to get around town and such. Although when we have to drive to Seattle or everett we live on exit numbers otherwise we'd get lost. 😂
Native Seattleite here (although I haven’t lived in Seattle for the past couple years). I’ve never heard anyone say “the mountain’s out” or “5” as opposed to “I5”. I also wouldn’t worry too much about standing out as a “transplant”, Seattle is a fairly diverse area and people come here from all over the place all the time, I wouldn’t exactly say we’re “unwelcoming” like this guy implies, although it may vary from neighborhood to neighborhood. Basically don’t get yourself killed or robbed and you’re good, a lot of us here are socially awkward nerds anyways so don’t get too anxious about things like saying “Pike’s Place” vs “Pike Place”. People here tend to just want to get on with their day rather than nitpick things like that in my experience. Other than that this video has some good info.
California local who lived in Tacoma for 20 years. Nobody in California says “The I-5.” In California it’s “the 5,” in the PNW it’s 5 or I-5. Sticking the “I” in makes it sound like you’re trying and failing to be both at once. I’m pro both places, CA & WA have a lot in common. They’re also great places to live. And I agree with other comments, people moving there need to know how to pronounce local towns like Puyallup or Sequim.
Actually, everywhere I’ve lived it’s “I-.” It’s MUCH more common than he thinks. Since I have lived all over the country, including the Northeast, the South, the Midwest, California, and now Seattle for the past 8 years, I know of what I speak. 🤷🏻♀️
I've been living in the Seattle area since 86 and I can't wait to move. It is waaaay too expensive to live here, especially rent/mortgage. You might find a studio for under $1500, further away from Seattle. The homeless and crime in Seattle is rampant. It's even on the local news that communities are crying out for their to be more of a police presence. Traffic is horrific as well, I-5 and 405 is almost always congested. Don't get me wrong, WA is absolutely beautiful, tons of trails and outdoor activity, a lot of cute coastal towns, but with the cost of living and traffic out here, for me it's time to find somewhere a lot less expensive.
Good luck and I mean it on finding the "Perfect Place". I do not think it exists. Native Californian whose father's job when I was around 10 required my family to move a few times in the Midwest region. After college lived in the South end and worked in Seattle. I was very happy. Did that for 20 plus years when my work took me to Des Moines, IA for 1.5 years. I knew I needed to get back to the Northwest, but definitely not Seattle so moved to Eastern Washington in 2000 and have been here since. I love it here with the exception of two things. It is a 2.5-hour drive to either Seatac or Spokane airports so going places is always a hassle. Secondly, we get too damn hot in July and August plus we can get bad air that time of year from smoke coming from fires. When my wife retires, I want to spend July and August in someplace cooler like Montana. It gets smoke too. I look at places for sale all over the US and what I have found is there is no perfect place.
@@LivingInSeattlePNWYou should have just added that to the list. Seattle locals say Rainier is the tallest mountain in the lower 48 even though it isn’t.
We use this slang in Olympia as well. I might be in need of your services in the future because I’m going to be going to grad school in Seattle. Do you help renters?
I'm lifelong Seattleite. Expected this video to be a goof, but no. Everything this guy said is 100% legit. Only thing under-stressed: as to the neighborhoods that are hills: you say "on" not "in". Like, "I live ON Capitol Hill. Not "IN" Capitol Hill. (How do you live "in" a hill? It makes no sense.) On Queen Anne... On Beacon... On Phinney... On First Hill... Etc.
As a Tacoma native, these are also ingrained in how we talk down here. For the freeway exits we do the same whether it’s I 5 or 16. Also as a Tacoma native it’s really hard to call the Washington state fair anything other than the Puyallup fair. Or you know you’re a native to Pierce County if you call Lakewood “the hood”, even though Tacoma crime is much worse now. Or you call University Place, UP.
The 520 and the I-90 are both floating bridges. So you would here then 520 or Evergreen Point Floating Bridge or the 90 floating bridge. Sometimes you will here the tolled bridge or the non tolled floating brige.
@@Exurius They're both floating bridges but I-90 was so far ahead of 520 that I-90 is thee floating bridge. I'm 3rd gen MI so may be prejudiced. 520 is 'the 520 bridge'. We used to refer to 520 as the tolled bridge until it wasn't, although it is again .🤣
@@shawnw.4440 Eastside native. Now days it's just "520". In the 60s/70s it was "the new bridge". I spent a lot of time at my great-aunt's house above Leschi in the 60s and 70s. We always took "the old bridge". My grandmother hated both of them, and for years would drive around the lake.
Im from B'ham and i should add that we don't usually say HWY and then the number, like Hwy 99, we say Pacific Hwy. Or if we are referring to just a part of it we use the street name like Portal Way.
When I say, “hundred” I pronounce it like “hun-nerd”. It sounds funny to someone who is not from here. Its normal to someone who lives in the east side of Tacoma.
I would add that on clear days we often sat "The mountains ARE out." When the sun's out, the Olympics and Cascades are also out. Also the Ave is not an avenue, It's technically University Street.
You will want to practice city and location names, they can be difficult to figure out on your own. And other areas of Washington has some difficult ones too. Here’s a list separated by geographic region. Eastern Washington: Spokane - Spoh-CAN Asotin - Uh-SOH-tin Pend Oreille - Pond-er-ray Cheney - Chee-nee Okanogan - Oak-uh-NAW-gin Touchet- Too-SHEE Central Washington: Yakima - YAK-ih-mah Tieton - TIE-uh-tin Naches- Natch-eez Kahlotus - Kuh-LOW-tiss Skagit - Skaa-jit Snohomish - Sno-HOAM-ish Wahkiakum - Wha-KYE-uh-kum Western Washington: Issaquah - Is-ah-qua Puyallup - Pew-all-up Sequim - Squim Tulalip - Too-LAY-lip Steilacoom - Still-uh-coo-m Chehalis - Shuh-hay-liss Mukilteo- Muckle-tee-oh Quileute - Quill-ute Sammamish - Suh-MAAM-ish Skykomish - Sky-koh-mish Washougal - WA-shoo-gul
A person I know moved to Queen Anne from another state. One morning, she woke up, saw Mt. Rainier through her window, and asked me, "Who moved the mountain overnight?"😆
Hey folks! Local yocal here. Some basic points. 1. So that ‘mountain is out thingy’ not a old thing at all. New to us oldsters. just sayin’ 2. The Locks: Hiram Chittenden Locks between Shilshole and Lake Washington. 3. We are not snobby, we are reserved and kinda have midwestern vibes. Lots of us have Minnesota..connections. Norwegian/Swedish 4. Most of us are 1-2 generations from old country values. Our folks came with nothing. Lots had Alaska ‘Gold rush’ aspirations. My great Uncle was able to make a panned gold wedding ring.. that’s ALL.. lol 5. Don’t assume that we didn’t work for what we got. Loggers, fisherman, farmers. It was a struggle, I can attest as a kid who lived on frozen halibut from my Alaska fishing (I have relatives on the memorial) Norwegian Grandfather and powered milk for a winter because there wasn’t local work for my Dad. I also have great teeth and skin though.. jokes on them. This ‘tech’ PNW is just a passing thing. We are some of the toughest, hardiest people you could ever come across. Lots ..including my family bailed to Idaho or Eastern Washington..but some of us still standing here are good. Please do not mistake our pleasant demeanor for acquiesce. I don’t mean to be mean, we see you,but we are not like you. My Father served in WWII Coast Guard. I have my Grandfather’s auxiliary patrol helmet from that time. He was patrolling the’The mean streets of Ballard’ We are not the same. I think it is about respect. If you understand this ,we welcome you with open arms as new members of this beautiful ‘Gods Country’ because it is truly is the one of the prettiest places on earth.
Thanks for watching and commenting My father’s family settled on the Peninsula pre 1900 and my mother’s father left the family farm in Nebraska to move to Seattle.
Yes, I agree with the mountain is out. The first time I heard that is in Alaska referring to Denali. Maybe, because I grew up in Tacoma and Mt. Rainier is closer and not hard to see.
Im born and raised here. I, like others, thought this might be a bit off but it was a, at all !! Spot in! Ive never given much thought regarding the Exit #'s off the freeway . I don't know the numbers only names from Vancouver, WA to Blaine. I found it pretty funny😅 thank you ❤
“The Hill” yes. SeaTac. I hate the new “SEA”. Another gripe is traffic reports highway Xxx just call is the Bothell Everett highway or whatever. Gonna subscribe I want to hear about the Seattle Freeze 😂.
I was born in Seattle and I've only ever used the street numbers and still couldn't tell you exit numbers today. My parents were both born here and never used exit numbers. My grandparents both used street numbers/names only. Why? I don't know. Its just the way.
Something that stuck out to me when I moved out of the area was that people in the rest of the country pronounce Oregon differently. The end sounds like “gone” when they say it.
![BOWKYLION - วิงวอน (ex-change) [Official MV]](http://i.ytimg.com/vi/cLdnZWDaO-w/mqdefault.jpg)
What’s up everyone!!
Thanks for watching, this has been a popular video
I misspoke when I said “University Ave”
It’s actually called “University Way”
That’s a good example of how ingrained that local lingo is in my vocabulary😂
Mt Rainier doesn’t have the highest elevation in the lower 48, but it does have the tallest topographical prominence by about 3000 feet. On a clear day it appears to float over the city
Seattle has always been quite wary of Outsiders.
Not wanting to go through the other comments, but Mt Rainier isn't the tallest in the Lower 48. Mt Whitney in California is more that 100 ft taller, and there are three mountains in Colorado that are taller that Mt Rainier.
the mall nobody calls it Westfield it will always be south center mall
correct!
and whatever that thing is called now is the Supermall. (It was never super).
Westfield is the brand.. Southcenter is the location!
Amen!
of just "South Center"
As someone who has lived in Seattle for a little over a year, knowing how to say Puyallup and Alki Beach correctly would have helped me not embarrass myself
But have you learned how to pronounce Sequim and Steilacoom?
Those names can definitely be challenging to newcomers. My wife said she had to practice saying the names over and over when she first moved here, until they became familiar.
Even though I lived there long ago, if I moved back, I would be a transplant. But not ashamed of that. Why should I be?
Still, I like the video & learned something. Also funny how boyhood phrases are still in “proper’ usage decades later.
You should also be able to sing all the lyrics to “Do the Puyallup.” 😅
Spokane is the one I hear mispronounce most often by people who have probably never been on the west coast.
My guy, great video but the street isn't named University Avenue. It's named University Way, which makes it even funnier that we all call it The Ave.
Good catch, someone else caught that flub also. We realized I misspoke after this video was edited so decided to just leave it in. The Ave is definitely a weird nickname!
I used to live in the U district and I puzzled over that too. In Seattle, avenues run north-south and streets run east-west, so I wonder if it was known as "the avenue" in the generic, like "the big north-south road" before it was formally named.
@@alainamccallum6486 The flying fish are at the corner of Pike St and Pike Place so Pike Street technically is in front of the market. But yes, you're correct. The market is named after Pike Place which is the cobblestone street running along the front of the market.
@@LivingInSeattlePNW This can actually be really important. I was stopped by a woman downtown once who was frantically looking to find the Metro Theater. Never mind that the University downtown is Street, she thought it was Avenue, and had no clue that the Ave, was actually Way. Let's not even get started on the clusterf*ck that are the Light Rail stops. I mean I know the why of the names, but honestly, couldn't they have renamed the downtown stop?
Also, I'll love you forever for stanning for Capitol Hill. I only started hearing that other one a few years ago, and it makes me unreasonably angry. I'll correct anyone I hear using that one.
@@znachkiznachki5352the Capitol Hill think is a point of contention for a lot of people. I’m aware that there is a generational divide on that one, but “cap hill” is like nails on a chalkboard
Seattle native here. This video wasn't as dumb as I thought it was gonna be. Please don't move here. Please.
Our rent is already high enough
Oregon is better. Move there 😊
Yep check out Oregon, I heard they have a better dick's burger there.
If I didn’t get an amazing deal on my condo, I would have left, but since I did, you’re stuck with me. 😂
This guy is a bloody idiot though. Just about EVERYONE in the country calls the official interstates in this country “I-.” It’s not a PNW exclusive and if he actually ventured out more and experienced the country a bit, he’d know that. 🤦♀️
@@LavenderSkylaI always think Oregon is the Canada of the US.
Only thing I'll disagree with you on: Saying "Cap Hill" is more of an age difference than a transplant thing. I grew up within 30mins of Seattle, lived here since 18, and most of my close friends grew up in Ballard. They all say "Cap Hill". But we're in our mid 30s. But people over 40 seem to think its a "transplant only" term. Not sure how old you are, but thats what ive noticed.
Yes yes yes yes. It is Cap Hill!
Love this video but I'm a native Seattlite. You have no idea what you are talking about. Next thing is you are going to tell me we don't say Pill Hill. I know I'm older than you and that statement is bullcrap.
I 10000% agree. It’s a generational thing. Every local from Lake City to Rainier Beach aged 35/36 and under says Cap Hill. Everyone 40 & up says Capitol Hill. Transplants say “Uptown or “Central Hill” 😂
Nobody I know calls it Capitol Hill. Everyone just calls it "The Hill." "I need to go to the Hill for..."
And ABSOLUTELY don't say you're IN Capitol Hill. One is always ON the Hill.
Been here 12 years, most of my friends are natives.
All of us call it cap hill
Correct. Growing up my friends and I also called it the hill sometimes
As a Seattlite I can say that though people are generally forgiving if you mess up most names, I cannot overstate the amount of respect you lose if you say “pike’s place.”
As a fellow Seattlite, I always call it Pike's Place. Glad to have lost your respect
@@andromeda7588 it’s not too late to change your ways
lol I call it pikes place all the time idc that’s like the worst place to go if it isn’t your first
lived here entire life and always called it that. And good lmao I don't care if it bothers one pretentious dik
Definitely not Pikes Place. Why would one add an s to the name? It's not on Pikes street, its Pike. Not too difficult to pronounce it correctly.
‘The East Side’
In Seattle it means the Bellevue Kirkland Sammamish Issaquah aria East of Lake Washington. Get much further away from Seattle, ‘The East Side’ refers to Eastern half of Washington on the other side of the Cascade Mountains 🏔️
And if you live on the west side of Puget Sound (as I do), everything on the opposite shore is 'the east side'
Does that include central WA, like Wenatchee.. Chelan County?
That’s just eastern wa or the valley or the 509 to me lmao..
there's "eastside" which is east of lake wa, then "The east side"/"East of the Mountains", where the kind desert folk live.
"The East Side" is what Bellevue folks call it to make it seem like they live in a part of Seattle, people in Seattle call it Bellevue
In Everett, we don’t say that we’re flying out of Paine Field, we say we’re flying out of Everett because we are so excited that we don’t have to go to Seattle. “You’re flying to Arizona? Which airport?” “We’re flying out of Everett!!!” Party ensues, and all your friends will volunteer to drive you to the airport. If you’re flying out of SeaTac, then we absolutely have a very important appointment that day
I live 15 min away from Paine Field and we all call it Paine Field
My husband always calls it Paine, mainly because he’s a pilot and flies out of Harvey (Snohomish).
For the first time this year, two of my flights out of Paine Field were transfered to Sea Tac as they don't have enough planes to meet demand! 🤔✈️
Youd think it was cause you're leaving everett lmao
I live in Mill Creek and we’ve always called Paine Field
Or anyone calling the zoo, Seattle Zoo. It's Woodland Park Zoo.
"We should get coffee sometime"
If someone says this to you, it's not an invitation. It's just a really polite way of saying: "Sorry, I gotta go, but maybe we see each other around sometime."
The correct response is not, "Sure! When do you want to meet up?"
It's:"I'll check my calendar and get back to you!"
If you move and someone asks you to go to coffee, respond correctly. and if you move here and propose going to coffee with someone, expect them to tell you they'll get back to and then never get back to you.
It not us being impolite or rude to you; it's just a way Seattlites (And Tacomans) interact with strangers. It's nothing personal. (usually...)
Fair assessment
I too am a native. Another comment involving Mt. Rainier is its hat. If Mt Rainier has its rain hat on, we get rain😅. The rain hat is a round cloud formation hiding the tip of the mountain.
That's a good beginners' guide! Here are a few less common ones:
Pill Hill=First Hill (because of all the hospitals and clinics)
Queen Anne=Queen Anne Hill
The Locks=Ballard (Hiram M. Chittenden) Locks (a popular tourist attraction in what was was once Seattle's Scandinavian neighborhood)
The Seattle Freeze=Seattleites are, in general, polite and helpful. They'll give you directions to Pike Place, tell you what bus to catch to the U District and how much to pay, even take a picture of you and your kids in front of the Fremont Troll (which, for reasons I don't understand, is now the Bellevue Troll ). What they won't do is tell you their life story (they will listen to yours, but will wonder the whole time how soon they can escape) or become your instant best friend. Our approach to interpersonal relationships is fairly Northern European, in that we'll be pleasant to all but tend to maintain a small, close-knit group of family and friends as our social circles.
I've lived in Seattle constantly for 37 years and have never, to my recollection heard anyone call I-5 just 5.
Also, "Mountain's out" is sufficient. No "the" required.
Otherwise pretty accurate.
Im in federal way. Always heard as i5.
Agreed
I use "5" all the time and I've lived here my whole life, "take 5 to 45th and take a right. That will get you to U Dub.". It's generally used when giving directions to be quicker, but in general conversation I-5 is the go to.
Don't forget to add "the Eastside", meaning anything on the other side of Lake Washington. Not Eastern Washington.
I’ve heard. The Fox News channel weather report almost always called our freeways the 405 or the 5. Instantly knew they “moved here”.
I would say the Native American names are something to brush up on. Issaquah, Snohomish, Tulalip, Puyallup (home of the State Fair) just to name a few. If you have those down, you've really got the local lingo managed! Nice video. Keep 'em coming! I've lived in the state all my life. Graduated from Selah High in E. Washington. Went to Green River Community College in Auburn, and then graduated from Eastern Washington University before moving to the Seattle area permanently. Have lived in Bellevue for 25 years. Oh you could do a Seattle v. Eastside (Bellevue, Redmond, Issaquah, Sammamish) thing too if you wanted. :)
Definitely a good tip
Get to be a real expert out on the coast lol with Sequim and Hoquiam and Tokeland. It's fun to say I'm from Hoquiam just to watch people attempt to spell it 😅
The one word that drove home for me the quality of the Seattle weather when I got here was "sunbreak". When it's not summer, having the sun poke out between the clouds is rare and emotionally important enough to rate a special word to describe it. The local weather forecasts make a point of mentioning the probability of sunbreaks.
We need those sun breaks lol
In Vancouver / Portland we refer to blue sky, which is a welcome thing in mid-winter.
do people not refer to sunbreaks outside of the Puget Sound region?
@@jillmariezeezeeI think the sun is just out by default in most places lol
Old Seattle joke:
Q: What do Seattle and Cher have in common?
A: Neither one has been fuckin sunny in a long time.
Wish that were still true 🥵
"You takin' 405 or 90?"
"*The* 167 is always a mess, I'd rather take 18 then down to where it connects into Puyallup"
We no longer really have "The S curves" but a bunch of us still say it.
The 167 is fine as long as you hit it off peak, of argue 405 is literally always worse. I'm only doing 512 to the 167 to 405 if I really need to hit Puyallup first tho. I'll go up the 5, across the 18 to hit Auburn, or just run the 5 all the way up to 154 and hop over to a from b at the last minute lol.
I swear driving around here is more an art than a science
Ah, the S curves. As a kid growing up in the area I would hear traffic reports on the radio and I thought they were saying the name of a town... Wasn't until I was about 12 years old that I realized there was no town on 405 called "Des Escourves" (kind of like "Des Monies"). 🤣😂
Seattle isn’t unfriendly to newcomers, we’re just unfriendly in general 😭
Scandinavians are reserved and don't talk to people they don't know, and they were a major group of early residents, so perhaps they set the tone.
Facts
Why
These are spot on. A few I'd add:
- The International District is just called Chinatown. 'The ID' is newer slang similar to Cap Hill, Chinatown is how it's known to longtime locals.
- Bus routes are generally referred to in "the" form. Example: "I hopped on the 36 and got off in Chinatown."
- The Central District is - The CD. "Can you pick me up in the CD?"
- The Locks, Fremont Cut, Montlake Cut - Regional portions of the ship canal that connects the Lake Washington to The Puget Sound.
- Puget Sound is just - The Sound.
- Northend generally refers to the region of Greater Seattle Area North of the Ship Canal Bridge / Green Lake.
- Southend generally refers to the region of Greater Seattle Area South of I-90 / Beacon Hill.
(These North/South boundaries are often in dispute amongst locals.)
- King County Airport is just Boeing Field.
- South Lake Union Streetcar was coined the S.L.U.T. (South Lake Union Trolley) by locals.
- The Space Needle can just be referred to as - The Needle.
- You can gauge how long someone's lived in the area if they've ever attended an event at The Kingdome or Key Arena.
Great additions, thanks for watching. How people use the local slang can be really telling. My wife has been here 20 years and hasn’t picked up on everything. Another dead give away is how people pronounce “Renton”
@@LivingInSeattlePNW:
Do you remember the fracas on how to pronounce _Des Moines?_ Even the Mayor and the CoP couldn't agree.
SoDo Mojo! SoDo as in “South of the (King) dome”
It will forever be Key Arena to me lol
@@nikkitronic80 Nope. It's the Coliseum. 😁
Lived in Seattle area most of my life and I never considered how different we sound to other people! This was halarious to me😂
People not from Seattle would say “hilarious”
Pill Hill, need I say more?
Pill hill is First Hill, though, because that's where all the hospitals are
Since I was growing up...and that was a long time ago 🙃
"I gotta head up to Pill Hill, grandpa's over there from Yakima for his surgery."
@@NWPaul72 Swedish Hospital
I've lived in Capitol Hill for 20 years and still call it "Cap Hill" from time to time. Also we pride ourselves for not using umbrellas when it rains for some reason lol.
The cap hill thing is a point of contention amongst locals/natives
Some people use it and some people hate it
Gained a lot of steam around 2005
I think the no umbrella thing is because of the Perma mist we used to always seem to have there wasn't a point.
@@bv5430 I feel the no umbrella thing was something someone from Southern California made up to save face that they forgot to bring an umbrella up here but it really didn't used to rain as hard back then as it does now.
Me and other natives still and will always call it cap hill. Friend owns and runs two businesses there and it's just cap hill
Sunbreak! I remember the first time I heard that during a weather forecast. Remember when thefuy would go out of the KOMO studio, stand on the sidewalk getting drenched, predicting rain. Gotta love that.
Great video! I was born in upstate NY, but transplanted to Oregon when I was 3. Stationed at Fort Lewis when I joined the Army, and got every bit of Seattle lingo correct. It helped that I had a very good friend who was a U Dub grad. We went to a number of Huskies/Ducks games together, this back in the 80s when the Huskies usually prevailed. So "the Ave" instantly clicked for me.
Thanks for watching
Mt Rainier is spectacular and when "the mountain is out" is always wonderful in the Puget Sound, not just Seattle. I've climbed it twice. But as much as I love it, it is NOT the highest mountain in the lower 48, it is fifth highest
Mt Whitney CA 14,498 ft
Mt Elbert CO 14,438 ft
Mt Massive CO 14, 429 ft
Mt Harvard CO 14,418 ft
Mt Rainer WA 14,411 ft
Read the pinned comment - by far the most prominent
@LivingInSeattlePNW is completely accurate with what he said. He said “tallest” not “highest”.
The mountain is the tallest from base to peak. Mount Rainier starts at 1,600 feet whereas mt Whitney starts at 8,360 feet for example.
Mount Rainier is, in fact, the tallest mountain from base to peak in the contiguous 48 states.
Grew up in Seatac and federal way area in the 80s/90s and have not been back since my sister got married back in 2011 so things im sure are very different. The one i say all the time because i go to a lot of festivals and outdoor activities....Honey Buckets. People always look at me confused.
Honey Bucket is a specific brand of portable bathroom. It was common to see those in the PNW back in the day and the lingo caught on - kinda like Kleenex.
@@LivingInSeattlePNWThe term "honey bucket" goes back way before the company, which took its name from the pre-existing term. Originally it referred to actual buckets or other makeshift toilets used on homesteads, logging sites, etc.
😅
We do a thing here that's like a dry understatement where normally people would be using high emphasis. You'll maybe be talking about how hot it was one day, how backed up I-5 was, etc, and a local will say "yeah, a little bit" and that means /very/.
I think it's from how Northwestern Natives (Indigenous) speak, where overstatement is sort of using up life energy so we speak a lot of understatement. My great grandparents talked like this almost exclusively, but I always knew when it was emphasis through understatement.
It doesn't mean we're trying to take the wind out of your sails, it's just a commiseration in understatement. A lot of the "unfriendly Seattle vibe" thing might come from that avoidance of emphatic speech.
Nice comment. Thanks for watching
My God, I remember doing just that! 😁 Someone would tell a story and you'd commiserate by playing it way down, but competitively, everyone trying to say the least. I recall pauses at dinner where we'd all be sitting on a one-liner waiting to see who'd go first.
As a native from the southeastern US living in the pnw, now I know why I would clash with native Seattleites when I first moved here. Cuz We emphasize literally everything in the south 😅
I work at SeaTac. The airport folks have rebranded it now to SEA (spelled out like LAX!). I keep telling them stop trying to make it a thing!
"Jesus Christ Made Seattle Under Pressure"
a mnemonic for the one way streets that make up Seattle's core, from South to North :Jefferson,James,Cherry,Columbia,Marion,Madison,Spring,Seneca,University,Union,Pike,Pine.
I always learned it as Under Protest.
I learned "Jesus Christ Made Seattle Under Protest" same thing though!
have also heard "under Protest"....but I use your version, still, even though I was born here, I often still use it to check myself.
@@rroberts7659Yup. Really helps.
Learned that from a nice random lady on the bus when I was a kid! 😂
Actually laughed out loud at the exit numbers thing....I never realized how true that is until you said it!
I know, right? GPS wants to always like to use exit numbers. It's almost as bad as just finding your way without it.
@@dfoos 😆
I feel like most people that live along I five in Washington just use the street name of the exit. I live in Tacoma and I just tell people to get off at 56, 84th, or if I want them to go further into Tacoma I tell them to take the exit for 16 and then get off on Union.
Me too, I have a transplant friend from Oklahoma, she uses the numbers and I don't have a clue!
As a teen, I was house sitting for my grandmother's neighbor. She was driving me home on the eastside and asked which exit. So I told her *the street* . It was my introduction to some people use exit numbers . . . she was freaking out! She thought she was going to be driving way north.
Puyallup, sequim, and pretty much every native place name in the region. Pronunciation is key. Also useful to know that Mt. Rainier is sometimes also caleld Tahoma.
Don't forget that Paine Field actually was an Air Force base back in the 50's. My dad was stationed there before I was born which is how he met mom
Thanks for watching. I might be getting older, but I wasn’t around in the 50’s
Thanks for making this video (from a guy born and raised in Seattle). The only terms I would add are "north end" and "south end". Someone below included "east side".
North-enders and South-enders and East-siders are definitely a little different
Long time locals can tell if you have been here a while if you remember skits from Almost Live 😂
I loved watching Bill Nye as a kid on there
@@rebeccaleegabbard Everyone’s favorite game show; 🎣 How 🌊 Seattle 🌲 Are 🐾 You? 🏔️
😁 Agreed! Remember the "Cops" parodies they did? Loved that show.
or J. P. Patches
@@TheSalMaris My dad was a Patches Pall growing up! But both sides of the family were more for Stan Boreson. Still got the Christmas Special somewhere.
I'm south in Vancouver/Portland metro area and some of the same slang down here. For us because of the addition of i-205 on the eastside you are either takings i-5 or 205 also used to describe which bridge you are taking across the Columbia river. And "the river" can mean the Columbia or Willamette depending on context but "across/crossing the river" is almost always referring to the Columbia River.
Great insights! Thanks for watching
I’ll never forget going to freshman orientation at UofO (I’m from Beaverton, but live near Seattle now), and a girl from Colorado tried to say “Willamette.” She totally butchered it, and I think it’s probably the top one to know for living anywhere in Oregon.
@@greglarson6293”Wil - lam - it”
The funniest one to me from that area is the Lewis and Clark Bridge. Nobody calls it that. If you're in Oregon, it's the Longview Bridge. If you're in Washington, it's the Ranier Bridge. Also, through southwest Washington there is only one freeway so I5 is usually just "the freeway".
@@310McQueen There is also the 205, as someone mentioned above. It isn't very long, but it is an additional bridge over the River from the Vancouver area.
I'm surprised SoDo wasnt mentioned. That confuses a lot of people when they visit.
South of the Dome! Doesn’t make sense to a huge portion of people who moved after it’s demolition in 2000
Great Vidow - Seattle Native here, graduated Queen Anne Hi more years ago than I'd like to admit, then U Dub in mid 60's. Went and came back a number of times. Your "Seattle Talk" is so true that it almost made me homesick. Keep up the good work!
So cool! Really appreciate you watching.
I’ve lived in Seattle forever. This is spot on. (I can’t even remember how many people I’ve taught to correctly say ‘Pike Place Market.’)
International District not Chinatown.
All the hills. Queen Anne, Beacon, Capitol Hill, First Hill is the same as Pill Hill.
The Needle used interchangeably with The Space Needle.
Eastside means across Lake WA from Seattle not the east side of Seattle.
The importance of stating the directional to any street - NW, NE, SW, N, S etc.
Meet at the clock or the pig.
If saying Vancouver, saying which one -- WA or BC.
East of the mountains means Eastern WA.
Good video. Also, the city of SeaTac is the only city named after an airport.
1. University WAY is the ave. Historically the road was an avenue until the city realigned street types, and has been WAY since.
2. Pike place Market is at the end of Pike st. But the market itself faces Pike Pl. Hence the name of the market.
Cap hill is being used more by some natives, and younger generations, even though it’s not right.
as a member of the younger generation, i have never heard someone say cap hill so i don't know abt that
I've lived here my whole life (nearly 60 years), as has my wife, and our UW daughter says "Cap Hill". Drives me nuts, but I guess I'll get used to it. Speaking of UW, some of us also call it "The U", but I think that's dying out.
My assumption is that it's The Ave rather than The Way because it indicates which direction the street is going. Way can be either orientation, but Ave is going to be parallel to the other avenues rather than the streets.
@@futursbrite It's younger people, hipsters and transplants. A lot of that nonsense has to do with how much the city grew in the last 25 years. It's led to weird situations like neighborhoods like Ballard completely changing.
I’m 41, born here and I’ve been calling it Cap Hill since I was a teen. Thats what my friends even called it.
Pop vs Soda! Pop used to be the common phrase for a soft drink. True locals like me still refer to a sweetened carbonated beverage as pop… so you can tell the difference between a Pepsi and bubbly soda water…
Yeah, I've been hearing it less as we get more and more people moving here, but pop is always a clue that someone grew up here.
We called it pop growing up, seems like that has changed
I grew up here calling it “pop”… moved to AZ, then NV & everyone asked if I was from the Midwest…
@@LivingInSeattlePNWGrew up in Seattle. Still here. It’s always pop. I’ve tried to say soda to be fancy but it makes me think of baking soda which is not something fun to drink.
Some places in the south just call every pop a "coke". I have no idea how people know which flavor/brand they want. I never got that.
Catching the boat usually means catching a ferry.
Don’t forget about UPrep, in the U district!
The Seattle Freeze! Polite but rude. Example:
New Resident: Hey what are you doing this weekend?
Long time Resident: Having a huge 100+ party with a bunch of people. Most I don't even know.
Long Time Resident: What are you doing?
New Resident: No plans, I don't really know anybody yet.
Long Time Resident: OK Have fun!
Seattle is definitely cliqued up! Even locals can have a tough time cracking social circles.
This literally happened to me, almost word for word
We have a social time and a non social time. Don't talk to me when I'm standing in line or shopping.
Not just Seattle. Surrounding cities as well. That freeze is real. The most difficult thing in relocating to WA has been meeting people.
@@elliev3593 As someone who also has lived in WA since birth.. meeting people is hard even as a native. But significantly easier to find places to meet people.
As someone who works with Seattle people this was awesome, thanks deeply!
Glad you enjoyed it!
Puget Sound is not THE Puget Sound!! Good job!! 62 years living in or near Seattle
I was brought up in Seattle in the U District and went to The Ave frequently (my elementary school was located on The Ave). The geographical name for The Ave is actually University Way. My mom did most of our grocery shopping at the original QFC located in the Village. For college, of course I went to the U Dub! Don't forget, it is "Nordstrom", not "Nordstrom's" and "Fred Meyer" not "Fred Meyer's". And being old school, I still say "The Puyallup Fair", not the "Washington State Fair".
Thanks for watching. Misspoke on University Way and elected not to edit
@@LivingInSeattlePNW It's been good for engagement!
Oh, and when you are in West Seattle "the Junction" specifically refers to Alaska Junction, even though there are actually 3 junctions on California Ave. North is Admiral Junction, which is called the Admiral District, and South we have Morgan Junction which is called just that.
Good one!
I moved to Seattle in 1956. Where’s West Seattle? 😊
I used to live across the street from what was then called Pay N Save on California Ave. I sure do miss it there.
I’m a transplant. I don’t live in, or near, Seattle, but I’m familiar with most of the local vernacular. It’s not just Seattle, but Western Washington as well. Also, umbrellas aren’t really a thing for locals despite the constant rain.
We have umbrellas, just forget where they are. Now, rain gear and duck boots are a important in Western Washington.
Umbrellas also don't work for a lot of our rain. It never seems to fall straight down. We have a lot of mist. Umbrellas aren't very good for mist. Or you have to put it up and put it down and put it up and put it down because the rain starts and stops so much, why bother. And who wants to carry a sopping wet umbrella around with them 😂
Native here. 🙋♀️ You had me at the mountain is out. 👏❤
Thanks for watching
The "CD" or Central District. Or the South End or Rainier Beach
People from Seattle are friendly or sometimes Too Friendly, it's people that are Rude from other States. I say Hi to people and I get ignored like I'm a ghost mostly in Capitol Hill
Paine Field used to be an Air Force Base long before Boeing was involved. My dad was stationed there and retired from the Air Force. I grew up in Everett.
it was the Army Air Corps before the "Air Force" was invented.
I used to live in the Eileen Court apartments behind the Congo Room on East John back in the day. Our two bedroom apartment was $200/month, and since it was on the ambulance route to Group Health Hospital, no night went undisturbed...but a fun place for three college girls to live.
If you are an old timer from around the Sound, especially from an area with strong maritime traditions, say Ballard, you might know what “soogee” or “skoocum” means. The first means to wash down as in “soogee out that barrel when it’s empty.” The latter means “good” or “great” as in, “Osprey was a skoocum boat, that’s for sure.” Btw, it’s “Puget Sound” or “The Sound.” Never ever “The Puget Sound.” Not unless you’re a transplanted radio announcer. When I was a boy, there was just “the floating bridge.” Or “the Mercer Island bridge.” Then it was “the old floating bridge” and the “new floating bridge” which got all messed up when the old bridge got blown away and replaced by the newest new bridge. I guess now days it’s “the 520 bridge” and “the I-90 bridge.” Is “Hec Ed” still where the Huskies play basketball, or does it go by some corporate name?
Thanks for watching and contributing
It's still Hec Ed to me, does anyone use the corporate name?
Alaska Airlines Arena officially, but I don't know if anyone calls it that.
"Caulk" is pronounced "cork" as in "cork" boots, or "cork" a boat.
My grandparents, my dad and his siblings, myself and all the cousins, live or lived in and around Seattle for generations. This might be an old phrase as I am 43, went to Mountlake Terrace H.S. '95-'99, we always referred to the typical overcast and misty weather as Seattle sunshine, because thats about as close as it gets. I live on the eastside now and still use it to refer to that type of weather. I miss living there but its just too expensive for me now 😢
Thanks for the video info. As someone who has driven down I-5 from Vancouver and spent a lot of time over the years in Seattle this is realy nice to see.
Also as someone who has flown out of Sea-Tac, spent plenty of time on the Ave and visited U-Dub most of these expressions are familiar. The ony one I didn't know was about Capital Hill. I had heard a few locals refer to it as Cap Hill so just thought it was the norm.
Looking forward to visiting soon to have my special at Dick's, check out The Market and ride over to Bremerton and hope the mountain is out.
It's mostly younger folks and hipsters that call it that. That being said, there has been a trend over the last few decades of using more abbreviations. When I was a kid, it was University Village and the University District. But, decades later, it just feels wrong to call it those things. It's just one of the things that happens when a city grows that much, the pace of everything has to speed up a bit to make up for the gridlock.
This is all in fun, but you kind of made a faux pas in your post. Of course, since you’re from BC, it makes sense you said it as you did, but when you’re speaking about Washington, you gotta specify which Vancouver. We don’t dig when you assume we should think of BC first. We mostly don’t. 😛
You nailed it. I’ve been in the pnw for 10 Yearz, 1/2 the time in seattle, and now I’m living in the actual capitol of wa and all of these tips apply here too;) thanks for the video!
Thanks for watching!
This is more for Parkland/Tacoma folks but Pacific Avenue and Pacific Highway
Pacific Highway is also called South Tacoma Way because the road just changes it's name at a certain point, but most people call it South Tacoma Way regardless.
Meanwhile Pacific Avenue runs parallel and is also State Route 7... Sometimes called "Highway 7" though usually just Pac Ave.
Pacific Highway isn't always Pacific Highway and Pacific Avenue is also sometimes called a highway, but that are different lol
Pacific HWY, Aurora Ave , Evergreen Way, 99 - doesn’t matter where you are, there probably some nefarious activity close by
I was raised in Federal Way, and we always called Pacific Highway "Pac Highway"
Rainier is not the tallest peak in the lower 48, it’s the 5th tallest following Whitney in CA and three 14ers in CO
Born and raised in Seattle (but live in eastern WA now), and these are all spot on.
Thanks for watching
I hadn't even noticed that I don't know any of the exit numbers I use daily. This name-instead-of-number practice also holds true on the Eastside. And just what is the Eastside? It's the area east of Lake Washington, with cities such as Bellevue, Redmond, and Kirkland. Many tech firms are located on the Eastside, the most prominent being Microsoft and Google.
I couldn’t tell you the exit numbers to save my life and I’ve driven down the freeway on the daily for years
I was working in Mountlake Terrace and gave somebody directions to get to our office. I told them to get off the freeway at 220th. They didn’t show, and didn’t show, and finally called me from somewhere up by Mt Vernon looking for exit number 220.
Also: Sun breaks. Nobody else knows what that is.
Mt Rainier is not the highest mountain peak in the lower 48 states. That title goes to Mount Whitney in California. Three other mountains in Colorado are also higher.
Mismeasurements before GPS had Mt. Rainier the tallest, but it's now known that a few Colorado peaks have a higher altitude than Whitney. At a mile taller than any of those, there's no disputing Mount Denali's US supremacy.
I thought it was Pike's Peak
Yeah, I should have been more specific when I referenced that. I was talking about the top peak by prominence, and in the lower 48 Mount Rainier is the winner. But for sure, not technically the tallest.
When I was growing up, I used to think it went Mt. Whitney, then Mt. Shasta. Surprising to learn that Shasta isn’t even in the top 10.
@@JJ-kl5yj Denali isn’t in the lower48
I feel like on the east side we do use exit numbers on 405. My friend is in Renton off exit 6. But yeah I couldn’t tell you the exit numbers on 5
As a native Seattle-lite I approve this message.
Cap Hill is definitely a thing. Been a native my whole life. Hwy 99 is often called Aurora, even on parts of it that are not actually Aurora. Chinatown rather than the international district. Boeing field rather than king county international airport. The armory rather than center house. I'm sure I'm missing a bunch.
Regarding the weather, be warned, there's a condition called the "Seasonal Affective Disorder" that can be difficult to deal with during the long duration of overcast days, but I suggest, even during the briefest of nice days, when the "Mountain is Out", go outside, walk, bike, drive (preferably in a convertible, with the roof down), have something special to eat... whatever brightens your mood. ;-D
SAD causes Serotonin deficiency, which is awful. SSRI's are prescribed like candy around here. Wouldn't trade our summers for East Coast swamp water humidity for anything. I don't mind the winter in some ways, as it's usually kind of mild, but the lack of sunlight definitely affects me. East Coast gets ridiculously cold during winter, but at least you can have sunlight coming through the windows. It's a trade off.
Moved to Seattle in the seventies after college. In the old taverns a draft beer was often called a "Schooner" and my new locally born and raised Seattle friends used to call a 12 pack of beer " a Half rack". I do not hear these terms anymore plus I moved to Eastern Washington over 24 years ago. Seattle also pronounces West Seattle as if it is one word as in "Westseattle". They also say the suburb in the Southend (All Suburbs directly south of Seattle and roughly north of Tacoma), near the airport, very differently than what people in Iowa call their capitol, Des Moines. Old Northwesterners pronounce the S in Des and the ES in Moines. In the old days none of locals ever said just "Boeing". They liked to put an s on the end of it, "Boeings". As an example, you would hear someone say, "Boeings is hiring". The funny thing Eastern Washington people will say is when they are driving over the Cascade Mountains to anywhere in the Puget Sound area they will say "I am going over to the Coast". Aberdeen and Ocean Shores are on the Coast! Seattle is on an inland body of saltwater called the Puget Sound. Again, this is mostly said my older residents and I feel its use is slowly dying out as more and more new people move into the area. There are so many new people who have moved into Washington that I think it is losing some of its local charm. The population has doubled in the 47 years I've lived here. I do think Washinton has an accent. Ask a multiple generation resident who is in the 40-70 age group to say, "Right On!" They say it unlike anywhere else. Fact checking. Mt Rainier (and locals pronounce it "Ray near") even though it is very impressive, it is not the highest mountain in the lower 48 as the host of the video says it is. Mt Whitney in California is the highest and Mt Elbert, Colorado's highest peak is also higher.
Thanks for watching
Rainier isn’t just a big mountain, it’s also one of the several volcanoes that line the western coast of North America.
Take me up to the Paradise Lodge
Where the ranger is driving a brand-new Dodge,
Oh won't you please take me home?
I’ve also heard people say their going to catch the metro from here to there or the king county metro but we just lump it all in as I gotta catch the bus today or ima take the bus to XYZ..
Take the bus, take metro are common
The thing I noticed most in Europe was the lack of the Mountain in the morning .
I was bout to get on here and talk some shit but damn this guy got it right! 👍🏼 Also, when we move away from Seattle the mountain pulls us back home. 😊
To be fair, we're not even welcoming to our friends either. The seattle freeze is a real thing.
I moved to Seattle after college in the seventies and moved over the mountains to Eastern Washington in 2000. I had a lot of friends in Seattle because I was active and played lots of sports, but the Seattle Freeze is definitely real. I hardly knew any of my neighbors and I owned a house. People on this side of the mountains are more friendly. They still have a little bit of that Northwest reserve to them, but just like we on this side of the mountains see the sun a heck of lot more often than Seattle people, Eastern Washington residents are a little warmer.
As a brief addendum, the only exit that gets referred to by number is Exit 38 along I90, and that's due to the tons of climbing and hiking right around there.
Not using Exit #'s is a whole west coast thing. I didn't even realize exit numbers were a thing until I went to Rhode Island.
I live in Bellingham and never realized I don't use exit numbers to get around town and such.
Although when we have to drive to Seattle or everett we live on exit numbers otherwise we'd get lost. 😂
Very funny. Never thought about the exit number thing. Have lived here forty plus years and don’t think I know any exit numbers.
I find myself using them more now, but only because of Google Maps.
Native Seattleite here (although I haven’t lived in Seattle for the past couple years). I’ve never heard anyone say “the mountain’s out” or “5” as opposed to “I5”. I also wouldn’t worry too much about standing out as a “transplant”, Seattle is a fairly diverse area and people come here from all over the place all the time, I wouldn’t exactly say we’re “unwelcoming” like this guy implies, although it may vary from neighborhood to neighborhood. Basically don’t get yourself killed or robbed and you’re good, a lot of us here are socially awkward nerds anyways so don’t get too anxious about things like saying “Pike’s Place” vs “Pike Place”. People here tend to just want to get on with their day rather than nitpick things like that in my experience. Other than that this video has some good info.
Thanks for watching
California local who lived in Tacoma for 20 years. Nobody in California says “The I-5.” In California it’s “the 5,” in the PNW it’s 5 or I-5. Sticking the “I” in makes it sound like you’re trying and failing to be both at once. I’m pro both places, CA & WA have a lot in common. They’re also great places to live. And I agree with other comments, people moving there need to know how to pronounce local towns like Puyallup or Sequim.
That’s just a SoCal thing. In Northern California, it’s I-5, 80, 50, 680, etc. And, please don’t call it Frisco.
@@laurenransford7638San Fran.. but NEVER Frisco :P. Also.. I've come to nickname Sacramento as "Ol' Sac!"
They say “the I-5” in SoCal. Northern CA says it like Seattle.
@@laurenransford7638 Northern California belongs to the pnw. You're one of us
Actually, everywhere I’ve lived it’s “I-.” It’s MUCH more common than he thinks.
Since I have lived all over the country, including the Northeast, the South, the Midwest, California, and now Seattle for the past 8 years, I know of what I speak. 🤷🏻♀️
I've been living in the Seattle area since 86 and I can't wait to move. It is waaaay too expensive to live here, especially rent/mortgage. You might find a studio for under $1500, further away from Seattle. The homeless and crime in Seattle is rampant. It's even on the local news that communities are crying out for their to be more of a police presence.
Traffic is horrific as well, I-5 and 405 is almost always congested.
Don't get me wrong, WA is absolutely beautiful, tons of trails and outdoor activity, a lot of cute coastal towns, but with the cost of living and traffic out here, for me it's time to find somewhere a lot less expensive.
Good luck and I mean it on finding the "Perfect Place". I do not think it exists. Native Californian whose father's job when I was around 10 required my family to move a few times in the Midwest region. After college lived in the South end and worked in Seattle. I was very happy. Did that for 20 plus years when my work took me to Des Moines, IA for 1.5 years. I knew I needed to get back to the Northwest, but definitely not Seattle so moved to Eastern Washington in 2000 and have been here since. I love it here with the exception of two things. It is a 2.5-hour drive to either Seatac or Spokane airports so going places is always a hassle. Secondly, we get too damn hot in July and August plus we can get bad air that time of year from smoke coming from fires. When my wife retires, I want to spend July and August in someplace cooler like Montana. It gets smoke too. I look at places for sale all over the US and what I have found is there is no perfect place.
Tallest mountain in the lower 48 is Mt Whitney in California.
That is factually correct, however Mt Rainier has a much larger prominence and floats in the sky above the region on a clear day.
@@LivingInSeattlePNWYou should have just added that to the list. Seattle locals say Rainier is the tallest mountain in the lower 48 even though it isn’t.
We use this slang in Olympia as well. I might be in need of your services in the future because I’m going to be going to grad school in Seattle. Do you help renters?
Let me know when you are moving and I’ll see what I can do
I'm lifelong Seattleite. Expected this video to be a goof, but no. Everything this guy said is 100% legit. Only thing under-stressed: as to the neighborhoods that are hills: you say "on" not "in". Like, "I live ON Capitol Hill. Not "IN" Capitol Hill. (How do you live "in" a hill? It makes no sense.) On Queen Anne... On Beacon... On Phinney... On First Hill... Etc.
Thanks for watching! I appreciate the support
Huh, you're right. As a transplant I say it myself, though I hadn't really noticed it. Just picked it up, I guess.
Good point. Hadn’t thought of that.
As a Tacoma native, these are also ingrained in how we talk down here. For the freeway exits we do the same whether it’s I 5 or 16. Also as a Tacoma native it’s really hard to call the Washington state fair anything other than the Puyallup fair. Or you know you’re a native to Pierce County if you call Lakewood “the hood”, even though Tacoma crime is much worse now. Or you call University Place, UP.
Tacoma despite it reputation is a nice place
Thanks for watching
"The Pass" means Snoqualmie Pass. "The" floating bridge is I-90, never 520. "The canal", "The cut"
The old bridge, and the new bridge . . . Though those have probably lost their meaning since both have been rebuilt . . .
The 520 and the I-90 are both floating bridges. So you would here then 520 or Evergreen Point Floating Bridge or the 90 floating bridge. Sometimes you will here the tolled bridge or the non tolled floating brige.
@@Exurius They're both floating bridges but I-90 was so far ahead of 520 that I-90 is thee floating bridge. I'm 3rd gen MI so may be prejudiced. 520 is 'the 520 bridge'. We used to refer to 520 as the tolled bridge until it wasn't, although it is again .🤣
@@shawnw.4440 Eastside native.
Now days it's just "520". In the 60s/70s it was "the new bridge".
I spent a lot of time at my great-aunt's house above Leschi in the 60s and 70s. We always took "the old bridge".
My grandmother hated both of them, and for years would drive around the lake.
Im from B'ham and i should add that we don't usually say HWY and then the number, like Hwy 99, we say Pacific Hwy. Or if we are referring to just a part of it we use the street name like Portal Way.
That's how "Hamsters" are.
When I say, “hundred” I pronounce it like “hun-nerd”. It sounds funny to someone who is not from here. Its normal to someone who lives in the east side of Tacoma.
I pronounce Renton like Rent’n
Or a 25cent piece is a "korter".
I would add that on clear days we often sat "The mountains ARE out." When the sun's out, the Olympics and Cascades are also out. Also the Ave is not an avenue, It's technically University Street.
Very useful and interesting vernaculars! I m moving to there several months later.
You will want to practice city and location names, they can be difficult to figure out on your own. And other areas of Washington has some difficult ones too. Here’s a list separated by geographic region.
Eastern Washington:
Spokane - Spoh-CAN
Asotin - Uh-SOH-tin
Pend Oreille - Pond-er-ray
Cheney - Chee-nee
Okanogan - Oak-uh-NAW-gin
Touchet- Too-SHEE
Central Washington:
Yakima - YAK-ih-mah
Tieton - TIE-uh-tin
Naches- Natch-eez
Kahlotus - Kuh-LOW-tiss
Skagit - Skaa-jit
Snohomish - Sno-HOAM-ish
Wahkiakum - Wha-KYE-uh-kum
Western Washington:
Issaquah - Is-ah-qua
Puyallup - Pew-all-up
Sequim - Squim
Tulalip - Too-LAY-lip
Steilacoom - Still-uh-coo-m
Chehalis - Shuh-hay-liss
Mukilteo- Muckle-tee-oh
Quileute - Quill-ute
Sammamish - Suh-MAAM-ish
Skykomish - Sky-koh-mish
Washougal - WA-shoo-gul
Let me know when you arrive!
7:37 It's simply "the market". There's no other one to confuse it with.
A person I know moved to Queen Anne from another state. One morning, she woke up, saw Mt. Rainier through her window, and asked me, "Who moved the mountain overnight?"😆
I've heard the term "South End" for neighborhoods south of the Ship Canal, and "North End" for neighborhoods north of the Ship Canal
That’s correct
Hey folks! Local yocal here. Some basic points.
1. So that ‘mountain is out thingy’ not a old thing at all. New to us oldsters.
just sayin’
2. The Locks: Hiram Chittenden Locks between Shilshole and Lake Washington.
3. We are not snobby, we are reserved and kinda have midwestern vibes. Lots of us have Minnesota..connections. Norwegian/Swedish
4. Most of us are 1-2 generations from old country values. Our folks came with nothing. Lots had Alaska ‘Gold rush’ aspirations. My great Uncle was able to make a panned gold wedding ring.. that’s ALL.. lol
5. Don’t assume that we
didn’t work for what we got. Loggers, fisherman, farmers. It was a struggle, I can attest as a kid who lived on frozen halibut from my Alaska fishing (I have relatives on the memorial)
Norwegian Grandfather and powered milk for a winter because there wasn’t local work for my Dad.
I also have great teeth and skin though.. jokes on them.
This ‘tech’ PNW is just a passing thing. We are some of the toughest, hardiest people you could ever come across. Lots ..including my family bailed to Idaho or Eastern Washington..but some of us still standing here are good.
Please do not mistake our pleasant demeanor for acquiesce.
I don’t mean to be mean, we see you,but we are not like you.
My Father served in WWII Coast Guard. I have my Grandfather’s auxiliary patrol helmet from that time. He was patrolling the’The mean streets of Ballard’
We are not the same.
I think it is about respect.
If you understand this ,we welcome you with open arms as new members of this beautiful ‘Gods Country’ because it is truly is the one of the prettiest places on earth.
Thanks for watching and commenting
My father’s family settled on the Peninsula pre 1900 and my mother’s father left the family farm in Nebraska to move to Seattle.
Hate to tell you, but I'm 73 and have always called it The Mountain
Yes, I agree with the mountain is out. The first time I heard that is in Alaska referring to Denali. Maybe, because I grew up in Tacoma and Mt. Rainier is closer and not hard to see.
Im born and raised here. I, like others, thought this might be a bit off but it was a, at all !! Spot in! Ive never given much thought regarding the Exit #'s off the freeway . I don't know the numbers only names from Vancouver, WA to Blaine. I found it pretty funny😅 thank you ❤
Thanks for watching
I lived on The Hill from 1999-2018. We called it "The Hill" because its "The Hill".
I agree - that is common terminology
“The Hill” yes. SeaTac. I hate the new “SEA”. Another gripe is traffic reports highway Xxx just call is the Bothell Everett highway or whatever. Gonna subscribe I want to hear about the Seattle Freeze 😂.
Thanks for watching
I was born in Seattle and I've only ever used the street numbers and still couldn't tell you exit numbers today. My parents were both born here and never used exit numbers. My grandparents both used street numbers/names only. Why? I don't know. Its just the way.
I know 168A gets you to Roanoke St/Boylston Ave in either direction.
Something that stuck out to me when I moved out of the area was that people in the rest of the country pronounce Oregon differently. The end sounds like “gone” when they say it.
Honest to god when someone calls it "cap hill" my fight or flight instinct gets triggered
Thought for sure you’d mention the “Seattle Freeze!”
We can also tell if you’re California transplant if you use an umbrella instead of just a hood when it rains.
California = umbrellas
Seattle = hoodies
Portland = knit caps