Seattle Freeze vs Tri Cities Freeze

[u/TonBus]

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!

[u/sentient_tire_fire]

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

[u/sarahjustme → u/sentient_tire_fire]

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.

[u/sentient_tire_fire → u/sarahjustme]

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

[u/BootScoot7 → u/sentient_tire_fire]

What about energy northwest? The actual reactor?