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Re:Home Values Are Rising by $800 a Day in San Jose by ghaff on Tuesday April 10, 2018 @10:11AM (#16801481)
>Seattle in the early/mid 90s had a grittier grungier feel.

Of course, that's true of a lot of US cities that are growing these days. Certainly NYC or Boston were much grittier in the 80s/90s than they are today with a net outflow of population.

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Re:Home Values Are Rising by $800 a Day in San Jose by seanmcdirmid on Tuesday April 10, 2018 @11:16AM (#16801955)
Yes. Also, I worked at the downtown McDonald’s then (3rd and pine), which was pretty run down and a hangout for homeless at night, so my impression is pretty biased. Not sure if this is still true, but back then many of the homeless were Native Americans, which is unique to the PNW (and Vancouver) grit, I guess.
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