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Mmkaay

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Apr 5, 2019 97 Comments

Was in Seattle downtown tonight. It is the worst city I have ever visited. Problems? Dirty, unsafe, and the most annoying problem is the homeless.

I was walking around 4th Ave and one of the homeless started following me and yelling ‘what the fu**’ and swearing at me. I started walking quickly and he followed me until I entered my car and then disappeared. For a moment I thought he was going to stab me.
In the same 30 minutes around 10 homeless people stopped me demanding or asking for money.

Many of the homeless are not just homeless, they clearly have drug or mental health problems and are very aggressive.

Meanwhile, Bellevue is very clean and safe and doesn’t have this problem.

What does Seattle do to be so attractive to the homeless and endure all their problems?

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  • Amazon / Eng
    onMyWay

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    It’s big companies like amazon, Boeing, Starbucks, Facebook, etc. They have created and are continuing this problem, according to my city council.

    It’s definitely not the local government’s total incompetence when it comes to just about anything.
    Apr 5, 2019 13
  • Oracle / Eng
    yoylo

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     yoylo
    This will be the problem in any big city. Have you ever visited SF?
    Apr 5, 2019 7
  • I don’t know what’s up with that. Did you check to see if you had some sign on your back or something? Do you look like you just arrived from Iowa to work for Amazon and don’t know how to walk on a sidewalk?

    I ‘visit’ Seattle daily and although there are homeless people (like every larger city) I’m never even approached.
    Apr 5, 2019 11
    • Google
      Mmkaay

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      FYI Bellevue is the cleanest city I have ever seen. Even people visiting from other states would notice how clean and seemingly safe Bellevue downtown is. A trillion times better than Seattle
      Apr 7, 2019
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      HfSQ81

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      After living in San Francisco for 5 years, I visited Bellevue last year.
      I felt like I had gone from a third world country to a first world country in 3 hours.
      Reminded me of when I moved to the US first time from Chennai.
      Apr 7, 2019
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    catburglar

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    Lol Seattle is dirty.. then SF is a landfill
    Apr 5, 2019 3
  • Sawant
    Apr 6, 2019 16
    • Dell / Eng
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      Onmyway, you have no idea what you're taking about. They're people that didn't get the help they needed. We as a society failed them and it's going to take 10x as much work to get them back on track. If you just consider them 'fucked in the head' you're seriously lackingin compassion
      Apr 7, 2019
    • Amazon / Eng
      onMyWay

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      Your thought process is exactly how we got from relative little issue to a full on epidemic. We give these people benefit of the doubt, when the vast majority of them have serious mental health and drug issues. Go look at the police reports dude. Something like 90%+ have either serious mental health issues or are seriously addicted to drugs.

      These people don’t volunteer themselves for anything but their next dose of narcotics, which this city is happy to let them carry and even incentivize with established safe zones for it.

      We need to move these people involuntarily into institutions that ensure they’re taking their medications, teach them skills and make them productive humans again.
      Apr 8, 2019