- JAMES YAMASAKI
Hellooooo, Californians! Welcome to Seattle. Congratulations on getting a job at Amazon/Microsoft/Nordstrom/Starbucks. You are now free to take 20-minute showers and buy mountains of legal weed.
If you’re shocked by my friendly tone, it’s because I, too, am a Californian. Perhaps you’ve noticed that our presence is causing some anxiety in the Emerald City, what with the hellish traffic and rising rents and influx of woo girls. When I first moved here from Oakland, last July, the guy at the department of licensing (i.e., the DMV) looked at my California driver’s license and groaned loudly, “OH GREAT, ANOTHER CALIFORNIAN,” but in classic Pacific Northwest passive-aggressive style, he did it with a smile on his face…
