Re "Seattle needs more goddamn cabs" -- get Flywheel! All kinds of cabs you've never heard of are only 1 or 2 minutes away.

I wanna try the $12 toast first...
shit ..even Columbia City is getting a PCC. Really needed a Red Apple though.

Seattle thrived under Mayor McGinn.

@3 really? The one in Seward Park is only like 6 blocks away. Or does PCC have a new policy of locating new stores right next to existing ones (I'm looking at you, Greenlake)

@5 The Seward Park PCC is tiny and cramped inside and the parking lot is a constant clusterfuck, and it's closing as soon as the new one opens.

If you look at the full list, after Austin at #2 (2.4%) is New Orleans (also 2.4%). That's good news less than a decade after Katrina.

The new PCC is going to be like 4 times as big, with apartments above and I think like 11 other retail storefronts.

SO:
$18 fish-'n'-chips = Bad
$15/hr dishwashers = Good

Not sure you can have one without the other...

Just wait until that M9.0 earthquake in the Seattle Fault under SoDo happens. Then Seattle will be the #1 fastest shrinking city in the country. ha!

I keep hearing about how Amazon and other tech companies are the places that bring in all the newbies. Let's not forget another crowd was brought here because of legal pot and all the shady enterprise that goes along with it.

Love these comments....we have pleas for more PCC markets, a rant on the proposed minimum wage, and someone who believes that pot tourism has led to increased population. Wow. And I thought Seattle had lost its sense of humor.

My wish list is simple: jet us back to 1995 when life here was on a "human" scale; before it started to become more crowded than a Chinese bus station on New Year's Eve. Each day, a new building goes up, and Seattle's short history is erased forever. What was once quirky and fun, gestating all manner of creativity and community, is sadly being lost to the four winds.

For those who don't know, Seattle is going to grow for the next 20 years at a pace that will leave this sleepy little fishing village unrecognizable...even by today's standards. Learn to love eating out in some chain store/condo complex, with rents equaling New York City. Why are we going to grow like gangbusters? It's called climate change, and the climate "refugees" will run from LA to the PNW...because we have water. No culture, but for now, we have west coast weather, water and Bertha. Bertha will NEVER go away. It defines us.

Seattle is growing fast!...one more reason to get the hell out.

Would a smart lion go where the other lions are headed, or go where the gazelle are going? Likewise, would a smart worker go where the people looking for jobs are going, or where the jobs themselves are going?

As Seattle gets less and less business friendly, Texas looks better and better everyday, as does North Carolina. Enjoy the last hurrah before the collapse, Seattle, because right now you're looking like Detroit did back in the 50s...

@12 -- er, what? Aside from being a bizzare notion, the fact that pot is legal now makes the business far less shady, no?

talk about pearl-clutching...

@13 unless of course the climate changes much more and Seattle turns into an archipelago.

Seattle's growth rate is no joke, and the proportionately faster growth of city versus sprawl-zone is a laudable trend, but the "WE'RE BIGGER THAN BOSTON, WOW!!!" articles are more than a bit absurd. If anything, this factoid only serves to underscore the uselessness of statistics based upon arbitrary municipal boundaries.

Boston proper sits at the center of a contiguous conurbation comprising about a dozen fully urbanized municipalities, with a total urban population of a couple million. (By contrast, about half of Seattle proper could generously be described as "suburban-tinged".)

The Greater Boston Metropolitan Statistical Area (MSA) (which excludes Worcester) is home to roughly a million more people than the entirety of the Seattle-Tacoma-Bellevue Metropolitan Statistical Area, and is itself only a piece of a Combined Statistical Area (CSA) that is the nation’s 6th largest.

If you doubt for one second that Boston remains, in real terms, a far bigger and busier city than Seattle, a broader tapestry of multifaceted urban bustle that puts still-mostly-sleepy Seattle to shame – then just spend about ten minutes there.

I love seattleites. No news is ever good news and a note about how the urban core is expanding like gangbusters is combined with a shoutout to the tin foil hat crowd that's opposed to the kind of 21st century food production that makes modern urban living even possible.

meanwhile every navel gazing jackass who lives south of everett chimes in with their own personal set of bugaboos and boondoggles to explain why if things were just the way they were 20 years ago everything would be fine.

Which, if you watch a few almost live re-runs from 1994, you'll see John Keister saying that same exact thing except instead of amazon.com, the villainy was nintendo and microsoft for bringing all the goddamn californians around.

only now those goddamn californians have gone native and they're now lamenting the loss of the history they created when they were bulldozing the previous history built by boeing. which itself bulldozed the history built by the alaska goldrush. Etc. etc.

Seattle: the only city on earth whose residents love it so much that they hate everything about it.

How about MORE HOUSING!

HA! this is hilarious...any transplants from the Great Lakes region (myself from Buffalo, Cleveland, Detroit (yikes!), etc. w/ exception Chicago (huge city), will tell you life blows 5-6 months of the year. why?
WINTERS FROM HELL...GL region has the biggest lakes in the world and they drop massive amounts of snow & ice every winter...it affects daily commuting, economy and overall people's attitudes re: waking up everyday to deal w/ it...
my point being locals in Seattle and the Northwest DO NOT KNOW HOW GOOD THEY HAVE IT. They take too much for granted and it shows. I wish my hometown of Buffalo had a international feel and look to it...not happening anytime soon since WNY hasn't modernized in 30-40+ years.
Seattle will continue to grow and prosper since that's what large cities do esp. being home to some of the largest tech. co.'s in the world. YOU LOCALS DON'T LIKE IT?? then move!
You don't "own the city" and humans are free to wander where they choose...we've been doing it for thousands of years...

Anthropomorphic global warming is a hoax. No serious scientists discuss it with more than light amusement any more. It is a form of political religion, a "dog whistle to the left." And yet, such hogwqsh shows up on just about any comment list related to anything associated with Seattle. Politics here in Seattle is crazy. I remember not long ago the city council was going to downzone private property in the city to be set aside for "urban farming." We have an avowed socialist on the city council. Welcome to the people's demokratik republik of Seattle!!!

Seattle is not "business friendly" but the unemployment rate here has been steadily below the national average --- WAY below. Fucking conservative cunt salads.

Unfortunately those numbers post-2010 census...are not census numbers.

They are survey numbers based on some suspicious data.

The only thing we know for sure is that it grew faster in the 90s, than the 00s.