What is going on everyone? Welcome back to the world according to Briggs, I guess
since we have protests going all over the country we might as well talk about
a city that seemed more than their fair share Seattle Washington Seattle is the
true home of Starbucks grunge music and the gum wall yeah it's a thing people
have been putting their gum on this wall for a couple decades now and tourists go
by and take selfies near it it's weird it's really an alley now at this point
tube sized doing both sides of the wall it's weird I don't understand it but
it's there the Emerald City the Queen City Jett City's reign city the city of
goodwill CL has far more nicknames than it needs cielos also the United States
most northwestern major city they do have a few smaller cities like ever in
Bellingham but Seattle is like the last Metro area before you hit Canada if you
can't find it on a map find Canada go all the way to the left and then go down
about an inch you'll find it there besides having too many nicknames
Seattle is one of the west coast's largest tech and shipping cities
Seattle's a great city I visited often I can honestly say that it's one of my top
five cities to visit I always have a good time there I don't know it is it's
always a good time but Seattle's not for everyone this list is about some of the
things you should know about if you're thinking about relocating some of the
things on this list you may think are not a big deal some people may find it a
big deal I'm not telling you not to move there
I've just letting you know there's some things you should be aware of all right
let's see what Seattle is all about number 10 protestors
that's right protestors aren't just a Portland thing anymore they've spread to
every corner of the globe and they've spread it a little thick in Seattle in
the last 50 years they've noticed that cities that have a well-educated
population tend to be politically active cities and on the other side of the
education spectrum less educated people tend to not give a crap about politics
and sort of go with the flow now before you do stop typing there is a difference
between educated and intelligent some of the dumbest people I know have four-year
degrees you can't be that smart if you own 30,000 in debt for an art history
degree right so here's the piece of advice have you moved to Seattle if you
see a crowd of book-reading troublemakers in Seattle go the other
way or join in or plan being stuck in traffic for a while while
they do their thing and before you comment I believe in protests I may not
believe in each and every cause but I believe in the lawful right to protest
rioters are not protesters big difference so again stop typing number
nine nobody's from Seattle anymore now I mentioned this three years ago
about Seattle and it's gotten worse since then I feel like nobody's born and
raised in Seattle anymore obviously there are some okay I'm not saying
nobody but the handful I know are definitely not from Seattle they're all
transplants and that's a theme throughout the city most the natives
have gone Seattle's had a booming economy for some time now well pretty
much since computers became a thing of course this has led to higher paying
jobs for skilled workers and as they come in home prices and rent prices go
up chasing the locals away it's the same thing that went down in the San
Francisco Bay Area with Silicon Valley and all that stuff the locals that are
still in Seattle may shoot you some attitude if you explain how you just
moved for some fancy tech job or something like that you might want to
keep that one to yourself I tell people that about Portland to keep it to
yourself for a while number eight summers are gone before you
know it if you've ever lived in San Diego or Los Angeles you know that
summers lasts about nine months and you tend to not appreciate it because it's
there all the time Seattle summer is from August 1st to
September 20th or there abouts and they appreciate it like a starving man that
just found a muffin top and a $12 coffee they go after some are hard squeezing
out every ounce of summer they can and when September 20th roll around they
start searching for muffin crumbs I know the weather report says it's going to be
cold and cloudy next week but I think that's BS it's gonna be sunny and warm I
know it I know it they like go insane September's went a lot of daydreaming
and lying to yourself starts the Farmers Almanac said it's gonna be sunny this
winter in Seattle it's gonna be like 80 degrees every day a psychic told me read
my tea leaves never is it's always cloudy and rainy every winter in Seattle
I hope you're okay with that before you move there number seven housing prices
both buying and renting in Seattle is going to be expensive prices have calmed
a little in the last year or so but they're still
outpacing the rest of the country in Seattle the real estate prices are 80
percent higher than the Washington average and about 120 percent higher
than the national average rental prices about 20% higher than Washington but
it's about 75 percent higher than the national average for rent in Seattle so
if you're thinking about picking up a mortgage in Seattle you better have a
solid job I've mentioned this guy before but I know this lawyer who right out of
law school he got his first job at a law firm and he wasn't set the world on fire
with income but he lived in a van for over a year because the rent prices and
crushing student loans that he had out yeah it was rough the good news is he's
doing a lot better he's been out of the van for some time he actually owns a
home in the Green Lake neighborhood in Seattle number six
crime imagine that a big city that has some crime weird that almost never
happens never seen that before anyway Seattle has some crime area vibes
actually gives them an F when it comes to crime Seattle's crime rate is 126
percent higher than the national average that's bad but it's not terrible I mean
there's places like East st. Louis in this country that have a crime rate
that's like two hundred and seventy percent higher than the national average
so 126 is bad but it's not like a frickin war zone they have some bad
neighborhoods that you might want to avoid or you know a lot of crimes are
going on there but they still have some really nice neighborhoods in Seattle
where things like leaving your Christmas lights up after February 1st is
considered a major crime so the place isn't horrible they just have some crime
in different areas you know where those areas are before you move there number
five chickens if you move to the Emerald City don't be surprised if you hear a
rooster in the morning it's a big city and you'll hear roosters seattle city
dwellers have chickens i know that's not a big deal and it probably isn't a
reason not to move there it's just something you should know about
it's estimated that 2,500 homes have chicken coops in seattle there's so many
that they actually have more than one professional chicken coop builder in
seattle here's the real warning if you meet anyone who does keep this chicken
thing try not to bring it up unless of course you want to spend an hour of your
day hearing all about the benefits of having farmed for
eggs and chickens in your backyard and all that weirdness
it was worse in 2015 they actually started limiting the amount of chickens
people could have in the city yeah that one's just weird I've always thought it
was weird they're really into chickens here
number four crew season this one isn't terrible but it's really something you
should know about I mean it's really not a thing that make or break moving there
but it is an annoyance once you do live there cruise seasons are rough on the
citizens the city and the businesses love them the people not so much
cruises leave Seattle for Alaska from mid-april until mid-september normally
and the whole downtown area is overrun with tourists I mean you have your
normal tourists and then a couple days a week while they're waiting to board and
then get off the ships it just gets nuts especially the traffic
the hotel the restaurants the whole harbor area just blows the Port of
Seattle sees over 1 million passengers through its cruise terminals every
single year it was expected to see 1.2 million in 2020 they won't be seeing any
of them obviously with kovat 19 so really I'm saying this part of Seattle
sucks this year you could drive right down Alaska Way which is the road that
runs right along the harbor and not see many tourists at all it should be wide
open you drive on down there number 3 it's uphill both ways
if you plan on walking around or biking to work in downtown Seattle be prepared
to break a sweat Seattle's built on an extremely steep
hill which means almost wherever you go you're likely to do some serious hill
climbing the good news is if you work downtown you'll have buns of steel in
like a year if your friends ask you if you've been on Nutrisystem or Kido
you'll get to answer no I can't afford car insurance because I got an art
history degree and now I have to ride a bike to work at Starbucks
so the walkability score here is really low believe it or not that's a big thing
with a lot of people with crime is a dog-friendly traffic thinks they search
when they're thinking about relocating walkability is one of the top ones
number two it isn't as expensive as San Francisco yet the other big tech city on
the west coast of San Francisco and as far as rent and home prices Seattle
isn't as bad but it's catching up outside the housing prices the cost
living is 78 percent higher than the national average in Seattle Wash
general sales tax is about 28% higher than the national average all this adds
up the good news is there's no state income tax so that's a plus in San
Francisco though it's not uncommon to see four people making over $60,000 a
year having to share a two-bedroom apartment
Seattle's not as bad a two-bedroom apartment will have three people one in
each room and the other living on the couch who has an only fans page as a
side hustle that's fine you do you stand but could you give us a
heads up on your banana filming schedule and number one the traffic blows
Seattle's traffic is closing in on Los Angeles and San Francisco as having the
worst traffic on the west coast the freeways are too small and the train
system is sad they do have a little monorail system downtown but compared to
other cities it's kind of weak no it's a lot of weak actually they are working on
some expansions and they completed a tunnel under the city it opened in
February of 2019 they're still collecting data on it so we'll find out
how effective it is but it looks pretty good at this point
Seattle's biggest and unfixable problem is they squeezed a city into a narrow
strip of land between two bodies of water when it was a small fishing
village it was a great place to set up shop and I'm sure they looked around and
thought eight there's plenty of land with an ocean view more than enough room
for growth they probably never imagined that this would someday be a major city
with 750,000 people and almost four million people in the metro area Seattle
is still growing and it's estimated that they've added a hundred and fifty
thousand residents to the city since the 2010 census and this will cause the
traffic to only get worse I am sure so have an audible account and you know
listen to books while you're stuck in traffic in Seattle
all right so that is today's top ten reasons not to move to Seattle Seattle
is a great city and a lot of these things are you know aren't gonna be a
big deal to a lot of you but some people they do matter I hope you guys got some
information out of it hope you enjoy the video everybody have a great day be nice
to each other