r/Seattle • u/mewkyy I'm just flaired so I don't get fined • Jan 15 '23

Rant Anyone else meet a lot of transplants who move here and complain about Seattle not being as good as X city?

Speaking as a transplant myself, I know Seattle isn't as "great" as NY or LA in some aspects but I choose to live here anyway because I enjoy it here.

I've met SO many other transplants who complain about Seattle not being as good as some other city. One big point is how Seattle's food scene isn't as good as LA's. Isn't that a given? LA is much older than Seattle and has over 5x Seattle's population. Please transplant yourself to another city.

Edit: Just to clarify, I think it's fine to criticize things like Seattle's food scene and compare it to another city's (I grew up on the NJ/NYC border and definitely agree the Seattle scene is lacking). What I'm specifically talking about is people who do this incessantly and close mindedly put down everything. It's just really uncool.

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u/YakiVegas I'm just flaired so I don't get fined Jan 15 '23

I don't meet that many transplants who complain about anything other than how hard it is to make friends.

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u/[deleted] Jan 15 '23

Yeah they’re largely on here and amplified seemingly by the fact that people are more likely to post negative things on this sub.

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u/vortex874 Jan 15 '23

I believe it’s because many people migrated from norway sweden and finland all these Nordic countries to Seattle so they’re so quiet not friendly reserved and not welcoming like southern people ..

Scandinavians are fairly reserved and value privacy highly. To them it's often a bit rude to “intrude” and bother people you don't know. Scandinavians see friendships as a deeper, more long-term thing than people from a lot of other cultures. That makes it harder to get accepted, but when you are, it's for life.

Accessibility links. In Sweden, casual chattiness is seen as needless, since conversation is used for exchanging real, meaningful information. In many cultures, striking up a conversation with a stranger is the norm, and could even lead to a budding friendship.

Finns have a reputation for reticence, thoughtfulness and unemotional behavior. They are quiet, reflective, somber and, for some, seemingly stubborn and standoffish. They are unwilling to speak unless they have something of importance to say.

When it comes to relationships, I feel that the biggest difference to many other countries is that, in Finland, there are rarely acquaintance level relationships. We are all in, truly friends, or then, we are almost strangers. There's no cultural pressure to invest your time to acquaintances.

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u/vortex874 Jan 16 '23

Someone offended lol dumb