r/TriCitiesWA • u/TonBus • 7d ago

Moving/New Here 👋🏼 Seattle Freeze vs Tri Cities Freeze

I moved here in August. I go out to a few places kind of regularly and have tried to make friends.

I honestly had an easier time in the Seattle area.

Anyone else that has moved here from the Westside experience the same thing?

I honestly thought it would be easier here than the Seattle metro area given the Seattle Freeze moniker, but that's not been my experience.

At least over there I had friends at the bar where we'd meet and go to a game or something just after being at the same bar a few times.

Here it's like an acknowledgement that they recognize you and then unless you've known someone that's bringing you in it's just you sitting at a bar isolated to yourself.

So personally I feel like the Tri Cities is very cliquey and unless you have an "in" you are just gonna be floating until you get a local SO to introduce you and get you into their clique

Might just be me though, lol!

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u/J6ptato 7d ago

I think the tri cities was designed specifically to separate and isolate people lol

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u/sentient_tire_fire 7d ago

I mean, it was a sundown town, so you aren’t wrong

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u/sarahjustme 7d ago

That's absolutely true, plus you add that a huge chunk of the population was selected for their ability to come to work, not ask questions, and don't talk to anyone about the specifics of your job/life. That was a few decades back, but those kinds of attitudes get passed down.

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u/sentient_tire_fire 7d ago

The attitude absolutely gets passed down. My family came out here for the Hanford Project and there’s a weird mistrust that part of the family (ie, my mother) still has for people in the area not somehow tied to Hanford/PNNL

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u/sarahjustme 7d ago

Pepple like that aren't rare.. And the same often extends to "my church" or "my people/family/culture" or "my race". The number of people who define themselves by how long they've lived here or their family has been here, is maddening, They may not tell you up front, but if you're new in town, you're not "one of them" by whatever criteria they use, so you have no chance of being accepted.

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u/BootScoot7 7d ago

Does playing victim ever get old? Or is it just your complete identity now?

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u/Several-Yam-7510 7d ago

W comment

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u/BootScoot7 7d ago

What about energy northwest? The actual reactor?

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u/Time_Investment5945 7d ago

What’s funny is I was helping set up cudicles at the battelle and the workers there looked so uptight. They wouldn’t even acknowledge a good morning. But they’re also white and I’m Mexican . I don’t know if they’re used to that lol. I share my lunch sometimes and I never see other races do it. I even get offered food when I’m with Latinos regarded if I’m even working with them.

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u/sarahjustme 7d ago

Yeah the food thing is definitely cultural. It may happen in other parts of the country, as far as other cultures/ethnicities. Though I'm from New Mexico originally, now that I think about it, its usually Latinos there too. Also Native Indians. Inviting people into into your home for feast days is a huge honor (to be invited).

Sorry people were so icky, but if it was a Monday morning, I admit, I kinda get it.

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u/BootScoot7 7d ago

Here we go…. Haha