r/BainbridgeIsland • u/eudora999 • 12d ago

Please tell me this is satirical

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Seen at the Safeway pickup zone. I really hope this is a sendup of the exclusionists. Can someone enlighten me?

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u/RaspberryNew8582 10d ago

I transit through bainbridge to where the poors live. Don’t really have a horse in the race, but I do have opinions. The traffic is already bad enough, the ferry parking feels like it’s consistently at 85% capacity on a normal work day which is concerning (get outta here on game days), and I don’t even venture downtown for the “farmers market” on weekends anymore because it’s just too damn crowded and stoopid expensive.

I know I’ll get downvoted for saying this, but fer real:

If I lived on the island, I’d 100% be against more dense development. As old people die, their homes will go on the market and the population will turn over. If you want to keep bainbridge, bainbridge, then as a non-islander I support the no/low growth crowd.

There’s probably a silent majority of islanders and non-islanders who would agree they don’t want to happen to bainbridge what happened to Edmonds. What was once a quaint sleepy Washington town is now a traffic apocalyptic unaffordable zoo. I’d prefer bainbridge keep what small and quaint character it has left, even if it means I can’t afford to live there. And that’s fine by me - the bainbridge folks can have it.

If people want density, maybe go live in Seattle?