SF vs. Seattle: A Neighborhood-by-Neighborhood Comparison

Or, Where to Go When You Leave San Francisco

Everyone leaves San Francisco. They get broke, get a job, get married, get kids, get old or get dead. And at that point, they definitely get out. If you think it’s hard to get an apartment, try getting a grave. The city hasn’t had an active cemetery since 1902. Leave your heart if you must, but go take the rest of yourself somewhere else.

Anyway, no matter how much you love our fair city, something, at some point, will make you consider leaving. And it’s not like there aren’t other places to go.

There’s no ignoring Los Angeles. Sacramento would like you to know that it’s available. And Portland is the city that wants to be noticed for just how much it doesn’t care.

But Seattle is so genuinely, refreshingly fresh out of fucks. Other cities like to brand themselves as an apparel or a lifestyle, but Seattle skipped straight to an image solution before it ever developed a problem. There’s good reason the city is the birthplace of grunge: the style of nonchalant, good-enough and zero fucks to give.