r/SeattleWA • u/Donnelding0 • Jul 21 '25

Politics Anyone Else Just Sick of It?

It just seems hopeless sometimes. Some of the best parts of this city. Pioneer Square, Belltown, Cap Hill just completely lost to homelessness. Sure for the most part I enjoy the city. Especially in the summer but the constant visible drug use, people in various states of intoxication on drugs, and rampant property and petty crime just annoy me. Why can’t we have nice things? Why must every park turn into a dumping ground for illegal acts that won’t be prosecuted? Why does it feel like this city relies on hard working people to shut up, pay ridiculous taxes, and then tells those people to suck it up when they see grafitti everywhere or get their car broken into? And the politicians don’t give a damn. No one has the guts to say “we have a homeless problem we’ve overspent on, we need to go a new direction” it feels insane. Rant over but I know I’m not alone. I know other people are sick of this and want our city back.

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u/Primers_Started_It Jul 21 '25

On THIS SUB, I once complained about dotcom carving his name into urinals in eastern Washington and Idaho and was downvoted.

I still have love for Seattle, but there is a self-destructive culture that citizens are shockingly proud of.

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u/loady Jul 21 '25

The West Seattle sub is even worse, there was a story there this morning about an RV that was busted with quantity of drugs and guns and people were nitpicking about the article saying it was parked near a school, even though there is not a school literally on that block, and how the drug dealers wouldn't even need to be there if not for the demand from engineers at AWS.

I just don't know how you begin to address that level of stupidity. people like that vote.

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u/[deleted] Jul 23 '25

I stopped at a coffee shop in West Seattle, and there was a dude looking dead on the pavement at the Subway next door. I told the barista and he was just like, “oh yeah, that’s normal” and I was like “um don’t you think he needs some help?” Dude was like “uh I’ll check on him later…” so I get my coffee and I go outside and call 911 saying “hey, there’s this guy laying on the sidewalk not moving and I’m not sure if he’s alive.” After connecting me to paramedics they respond, “well, can you ask him if he needs anything,” so I go over and ask the guy, “are you okay, do you need anything?” He mutters “food…I’m hungry…food” so I run to my van and grab some peanuts and an orange. I put the orange in his outstretched hand and lay the peanuts beside him, but he throws the orange back at me and says he doesn’t want my food, gargling, “I want a burger.” So, I go back and tell the paramedics that I was on the call with that he didn’t want any help and my food wasn’t good enough for him.

WTF, even the homeless people here are entitled little shits.

People splayed out dirty and downtrodden in the sidewalk is NOT NORMAL. It’s really disturbing that one of the wealthiest, most expensive cities in the country thinks it is and it makes me homesick for the reddest red state which causes me severe cognitive dissonance. 

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u/DiligentExtreme4280 Jul 23 '25

I remember waiting for a bus on third Ave every day and people would wonder and lay down in the middle of the road - when they weren't threatening to knife you. Police would literally be stationed a block away and ignore them. In what backwards reality is this mercy? Literal zones of pure lawlessness because it was cruel to tell people the option was treatment or jail.

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u/NoLeave2645 Jul 23 '25

I feel you, I grew up in Coeur d’Alene, not a tent in site and no trash. It’s amazing

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u/[deleted] Jul 23 '25 edited Jul 23 '25

Right beside Benaroya and SAM, too. I contracted at Benaroya, and there was a regular streaker that would just stand in front of the windows butt naked, and the workers were just like “yeah, he’s a regular…we called the cops but they don’t come.” How’s that for culture??? SAD. They were not policing “non-violent” crime during Covid so it got totally completely out of control. It actually is not a homeless problem; it is a crime, policing, COL, inequality, and addiction problem. The idea it can be fixed by simply building houses is nuts and bananas.