Rate This City: Day 23 - Seattle

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What does Chicago have over DC aside from cost of living?

Architecture is better
Academic institutions are better
Food Scene is better
Entertainment is better
Outdoor activities are better
Shopping is better
Bronzeville > Ledroit Park
Mild Sauce > Mambo Sauce
House music > Go Go
Chicago State > Howard


If this is a sincere question ok, but it’s a joke if you’ve ever visited both cities. In terms of offerings, DC should not even be mentioned in the same breath as Chicago.

 

[feelosofer]

Seattle is a beautiful city but the weather just bums me out. 6/10

 

[RadaMillz]

10/10

Goat city

 

[BigMan]

Architecture is better
Academic institutions are better
Food Scene is better
Entertainment is better
Outdoor activities are better
Shopping is better
Bronzeville > Ledroit Park
Mild Sauce > Mambo Sauce
House music > Go Go
Chicago State > Howard


If this is a sincere question ok, but it’s a joke if you’ve ever visited both cities. In terms of offerings, DC should not even be mentioned in the same breath as Chicago.

i agree with the bolded.

outdoor activities it gets -40 below in Chicago
how is shopping better when everything is online and DC has CityCenter, Mazza Galeria and all the other malls in and around the city
Never been to Bronzeville or had mild sauce but can't comment
better education for whom? Chicago Public Schools aren't renowned at all and there's currently a teacher strike

black people are leaving Chicago in droves while DC's and the DMV's black population is growing and its one of the top metros for black people. higher incomes, lower poverty rates, etc.

of course personal preference places a role as personally i can't see an advantage that Chicago has over DC for me except for cost

 

[mannyrs13]

Other than the Smithsonian and those monuments they really don’t have much more to do tbh

Oh ok, good looks on that info.

 

[UberEatsDriver]

These are the exact things I liked about Sea-Tac airport. Here in NYC, we have:
JFK (big and crowded),
and LaGuardia (IMPOSSIBLE to get in and out of).

This is about to change

 

[UberEatsDriver]

Have no idea how DC is ranked over Chicago and how Oakland is ranked over Houstonlantaorleans but Coli nikkas have absolutely no taste.

Seattle is a fine city. Have two uncles that have been living there for about 25 years. There is no type of black community but the city is beautiful, food is great, and all types of activities if you’re into the outdoors. Can be expensive in many areas but that comes with the territory. Seattle has the reputation that it rains all the time but I read a stat that it rains just as much in Chicago as it does in Seattle so that perception seems to be a bit misplaced. However, the couple times I visited, it stayed foggy so there was limited sunshine. Native Americans abound but they pretty much poor and hood, essentially Seattle’s black people.

Rate it an 8.

Damn my G. Is there a place in America you don’t have family in?

 

[UberEatsDriver]

Seattle is a nice looking city.

Very relaxing with some great tourist spots and good food along with some nice people.

So I'm going to give Seattle a 7. I'm kinda surprised TLR doesn't like Seattle.

you’re surprised?

 

[UberEatsDriver]

Yeah NYC and Miami actually have higher annual rain totals than Seattle. It's the sheer number of rainy and cloudy days that makes Seattle the "rainiest" city in America.

Seattle, Washington
Average annual rainfall: 38 inches Average rainy days per year: 154


According to Today I Found Out, Seattle only receives an average of 38 inches of rain annually, placing it at number 44 on the list of the wettest U.S. cities by rainfall. So why does this Pacific Northwest metropolis have such a reputation for being rainy? It may have something to do with the sheer frequency of rainy days: according to seattle.gov, the city experiences, on average, a whopping 154 days of precipitation every year. (It may also be a rumor natives like to spread to keep too many people from crowding the gorgeous city.)

these past two years it has been raining a lot in nyc

 

[BaldingSoHard]

Cool city. Lived there for 2 years. Bought a house that I shouldn't have sold but .

Pros:
March - August is beautiful.
Great seafood / produce.
Beautiful landscape and shyt.
Legal weed.

Cons:
September - February is garbage.
High cost of living.
Women are terrible looking.
Traffic is annoying and the infrastructure is trash.
Lots of homeless.

 

[daboywonder2002]

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Bro make sure you tag me when you do Minneapolis/St Paul

 

[Child_Of_God]

Bro make sure you tag me when you do Minneapolis/St Paul

Alright.

 

[murksiderock]

Forget Oakland at #6, how is a suburban was city like Charlotte top 5?





Also I'm use to Baltimore getting shytted on by people who've never been so no surprise there.

Charlotte is dope. It is wildly suburban, but it's a premier southern city at this point. Take that first what it's worth, I mean I'm not the biggest fan of the South but after (no order) Houston, Dallas, Atlanta and Miami....Charlotte is the next most popping southern city...

I've been to Baltimore many times. Not impressed in the slightest...

I'm sure Charlotte being Top 5 on here has nothing to do with a lot of NC/Charlotte posters being on this forum

And yeah, that's wild. IDK how DC #3 but Bmore #16. It's a cool city, cats really just getting their info from the media which is negative.

The disproportionate number of NC posters on here are contributing to Charlotte's stature. It's a fun place and I've been on the record many times saying I love it there, but online, it is slightly overrated...

Yea I don’t get how DC ranked so high over us. Only thing they really got over us is quality of women (many of which aren’t from there) and the nightlife since their clubs and bars stay open longer. Crime ain’t much better and it’s not much cleaner. Plus it’s expensive as hell

Posters either thinking with their dikks

Or Baltimore might be too black for them

Baltimore has a lot to both like and dislike about it. There is so much black poverty there its depressing. DC definitely presents a different aesthetic of more upwardly mobile blacks, more opportunity...

Baltimore is consistently one of the most violent cities in America, DC hoods are rough but in this age Baltimore is on another level, they aren't comparable. That level of violence is a true societal problem and if the locals can't fix it, why would a transplant with a family want to raise their kids there?

Baltimore has some beauty but is dirty and the bad areas are really, really bad. Structures falling apart, block after block of junkies. Baltimore is not a city you think of bad women, either...

Disclosure A: I had a potna from Bmore years ago I used to associate with, put up his bail for him (we're talking 2010), lent him some bread, and never got it back. This is also after supporting him in some beef he got into at one point, providing muscle for dude...

Kinda soured me on Bmore cats...

Disclosure B: I went to Baltimore City Jail in 2014 on transit with the US Marshals and that jail was dirty as fukk. Only dirtier jail I ever went to is in Harrisburg PA. Dirty and there were a ton of junkies in there. Reinforced some images I had of Baltimore...

Every time I've hopped thru there was on some tourist shyt, hanging out at Power Plant/Inner Harbor, malls, etc. That city really doesn't have much to do outside of downtown and isn't unlike Charlotte and a lot of other cities in that regard...

Can't say the same about DC at all...

 

[invalid]

outdoor activities it gets -40 below in Chicago

It does. But when it’s 80, not many cities are fukking with Chicago which is why it’s the place to be in the summer and a hotspot for celebs. And it’s for the very reason that its cold for a good portion of the year why Chicago makes the most out of its summers.

how is shopping better when everything is online and DC has CityCenter, Mazza Galeria and all the other malls in and around the city

There is Fifth Avenue. There is Rodeo Drive. And there is the Magnificent Mile. You’re comparing DC malls to one of the most vaunted shopping districts in the world.

The 9 best shopping streets in the world

Never been to Bronzeville or had mild sauce but can't comment

DC had/has a very thriving, historic, and influential black community centered around Dunbar and Howard.

Chicago never had an HBCU to draw in black talent but Bronzeville still became the second most influential black community in the country after Harlem.

better education for whom? Chicago Public Schools aren't renowned at all and there's currently a teacher strike

Chicagoland schools are renowned.

First, DC has nothing comparable to the University of Chicago and Northwestern which are ranked 6th and 9th in the top 10 universities in the country. Chicago’s Booth is the #1 business school in the country right now surpassing HBS.

And CPS is not uniform. CPS has ill-performing schools as well as top performing schools.

Payton College Prep is in the top 10 high schools in the country.

https://www.usnews.com/education/best-high-schools/national-rankings

Is see Thomas Jefferson High School representing the DMV but that’s Alexandria not DC proper.

But even if I were to give latitude for the extended DMV area like y’all like to do, we need to give latitude for the extended Chicagoland area, and when you do, you see that that top school districts in the country are here.

Three of the top five school districts in the country are in Chicagoland and another two are in the top 10.

2020 Best School Districts in America

I see no DC, Maryland, or Virginia school districts listed.

black people are leaving Chicago in droves while DC's and the DMV's black population is growing and its one of the top metros for black people. higher incomes, lower poverty rates, etc.

Higher incomes? DC black income has been dropping.

Black D.C. Households Saw A Significant Drop In Median Income Last Year | DCist

And Chicago blacks are leaving Chicago to go into suburban Cook County. It’s the equivalent of DC blacks leaving the district to go to PG County.

of course personal preference places a role as personally i can't see an advantage that Chicago has over DC for me except for cost

This is true. Likeability is heavily dependent on preferences. But we’re not talking about preferences. We’re talking about tangible metrics. And by the metrics, Chicago comes our on top of DC, which is why more people visit Chicago than the nation’s capital.

 

[Eastside Get The Money]

Gotta go with a 5

Crazy homeless and drug problem that heavily affects the common man,

Insane traffic

Mad expensive. I believe ‘comfortable living’ here is $80k

Not a lot of blacks

Rains all the time but the killer is when it gets dark at like 3pm

honestly if you don’t like hiking, sushi, and wypipo this ain’t the spot for you.