Does anyone miss the old seattle from 2010 to 2019?? (bus, homeless)

[mhays25]

It was 21% growth in the 2010-2020 decade alone, the highest of any central city in the US including the ones with giant city limits. It's almost entirely second-generation infill, as the city was basically built out long before the 80s. Definitely remarkable.

The growth in the number of households was actually even larger, since families (and households in general) got smaller in that period.

[87112]

I miss going to Fred Meyer without having an security guard armed checking my receipt on the way out. Are they going to shoot people now that shoplifts?

Burien and Renton has this going on. How depressing. When you see these armed guards out in Bellevue, Kirkland its game over for Puget Sound.

[87112]

Originally Posted by mhays25

It was 21% growth in the 2010-2020 decade alone, the highest of any central city in the US including the ones with giant city limits. It's almost entirely second-generation infill, as the city was basically built out long before the 80s. Definitely remarkable.

The growth in the number of households was actually even larger, since families (and households in general) got smaller in that period.

Gave up today. It's Sunday though I would go from South Seattle to Lynnwood for shopping. Traffic was too much so reversed and went back home. The population growth is incredible here. There is no relief.

[CalWorth]

Originally Posted by 87112

Gave up today. It's Sunday though I would go from South Seattle to Lynnwood for shopping. Traffic was too much so reversed and went back home. The population growth is incredible here. There is no relief.

Wait, aren't you in Naples, FL right now??

[rodentraiser]

Hmmm. Seems to me in 2000 someone was killed on the streets downtown during the WTO riots. So it wasn't all that safe back then.

[jabogitlu]

Originally Posted by 87112

I miss going to Fred Meyer without having an security guard armed checking my receipt on the way out.

Never been to Costco? Also I remember as a little kid (early 90s) Walmart in my town used to check receipts around the holidays.

This is nothing new.

[87112]

Originally Posted by jabogitlu

Never been to Costco? Also I remember as a little kid (early 90s) Walmart in my town used to check receipts around the holidays.

This is nothing new.

Costco and Walmart are different. They receipt checkers don't have guns. Yet

[87112]

Originally Posted by CalWorth

Wait, aren't you in Naples, FL right now??

Back in town for a bit, there are some homes in Medina I want to buy for the 2 weeks of summer here.

[oregonwoodsmoke]

Originally Posted by 87112

Costco and Walmart are different. They receipt checkers don't have guns. Yet

Costco heads off a lot of typical retail trouble by requiring membership and having membership checked at the door before you can go in.

Anyone can walk into Walmart and their receipt checkers have always been there but as a service to the community program, giving good paying jobs to the elderly and the handicapped. I think the theory is that if you can't help them all, you can at least help three of them. I've always respected Walmart for that. The "greeters" are not really there for security. At least they haven't been in the past.

I suspect that Walmart probably has the worst shoplifting problem of any store, so they might go to actual security at the exits, although in many places, the police won't arrest shoplifters and the courts won't prosecute them, so it does little good to catch them

[jabogitlu]

Originally Posted by 87112

Costco and Walmart are different. They receipt checkers don't have guns. Yet

Well god damn, this is America. That is their right. I hope they do soon.