Seattle, in Midst of Tech Boom, Tries to Keep Its Soul

Re:Seattle, in Midst of Tech Boom, Tries to Keep Its Soul by voxrumor on Thursday October 08, 2015 @02:08PM (#10354729)

My experience has been eerily similar. Moved to Ballard from South Philly at the beginning of the summer, working in Bellevue.

People are so openly hostile I kinda stopped trying to talk to anyone. The "Die techie scum" graffiti all over doesn't really help either.

Seattle itself seems pretty nice. Its a shame this forced isolation is just going to lead to even bigger division.

Maybe we should hang out?

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Re:Seattle, in Midst of Tech Boom, Tries to Keep Its Soul by pnathan on Thursday October 08, 2015 @06:54PM (#10356949)

I love Seattle, but the people spewing hate against techies gets me down, hard. I haven't really run into hostility outside of the anonymous ranting on reddit and the rude graffiti, etc.

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Re:Seattle, in Midst of Tech Boom, Tries to Keep Its Soul by mattress on Thursday October 08, 2015 @08:03PM (#10357251)

Ha, small world. It's strange, because I don't even look like a typical "techbro" as people have been describing in this thread. Work/life balance is incredibly important to me. I have a large beard, my long hair is in a bun, I have tattoos on my arms. I moved to Fremont because the one friend I had here lived there.

Shoot me a private message, lets grab a bite or beer sometime.

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