Booming tech companies mean Seattle is under chronic construction
We’re jaded. Most of us have been here for at least 10 years; some of us are from Seattle and have watched it go from a sleepy little fishing village to a city overrun with grunge wannabes wearing flannel. (Okay, every single word of that sentence is a flaming cliché.) But there are certain self-evident truths to living in Seattle in 2017—among them, the rent is too damn high, and that’s the newcomers’ (your) fault, and the construction is causing traffic jams and demolishing the character of the city. How long do you have to live here before you can bitch about these things? For most of these problems, not long, it turns out.