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Welcome to Seattle, new college students!

It probably feels good to have escaped wherever you came from. Congratulations on landing in the fastest-growing city in the country, full of rock clubs, delicious food, pot smoke, pot edibles, youthful energy, assholes who don’t know how to use the escalators in the light-rail stations, NFL stars, artists, straight people, gay people, trans people, nonbinary people, people who are offended at you for even asking, awnings that are noncontiguous and drip rain onto your head even though the whole point of awnings is not to drip rain onto your head, people riding Solowheels, and political leaders who run the gamut from left-wing to extremely left-wing. It’s probably confusing to be in a new city and not know where to go or what to do. Most people have to figure it out on their own, but not you, because you’ve discovered The Stranger. Some people have all the luck.

Christopher Frizzelle was The Stranger's print editor, and first joined the staff in 2003. He was the editor-in-chief from 2007 to 2016, and edited the story by Eli Sanders that won a 2012 Pulitzer...