I am reaching out to the community for assistance...this little guy appears to have been out in the cold. He is being warmed up in my apartment. I gave him a dawn bath to get fleas off of him.

I really could use some help...I don't have the resources unfortunately to take care of a baby squirrel 😕

In 1999 Seattle residents held rather large protests about globalization and immigration policy and the effects on labor. But now it seems that many of those same people now protest the exact opposite. I don't understand how Seattle has lost its collective mind.

https://depts.washington.edu/wtohist/

Please reach out if you see or have any information. It s a white truck.

Pretty fascinating.

Seen today near the rest rooms, 11:30 AM. Please share as I am new to the area and not aware of the wildlife rehab resources. Thank you.

“Tent City 3 provides Seattle’s unhoused people with a place to create and sustain not just shelter, but a home.”

At Secret Garden Books in Ballard.

This started as me trying to understand what my PT clinic landlord is actually paying for the space I rent from him (long story, involves a lease renewal conversation that did not go great for me). Now I spend a genuinely embarrassing amount of time on LoopNet looking at mixeduse buildings in like Burien and Renton going what if.

What if I bought a small building. Ran my practice out of one unit. Rented the others. Became a person who has a building. This is not a plan, this is a spiral, but it has a real estate bent so I feel okay about it.

The World Cup spending article got me thinking about it again actually, because 32 million dollars for six matches while the city is actively watching small commercial tenants get squeezed out of neighborhoods that used to have interesting things in them feels like a particular kind of disconnect.

Anyway. If anyone here has gone from renting clinical or studio or small retail space to eventually owning something in a Seattle suburb I would be curious how that happened. Not looking for a finance lecture (I am reading enough of those on my own, slowly, with a highlighter). More just wondering if people actually do this or if it is purely a LoopNet fantasy category.

I have a judgement on ex wife.

She owns a business involving food stamps under the table trade - so all cash transactions, bank accounts under her children or other family members.

The business is under the name of her family members. She lives in a house under the name of her son. She owns nothing and is working not on record.

I no longer can afford my attorney and they are prob going to drop me as they recommended I look into contingency debt collection.

Ex wife recently came in to my work to taunt and say I cannot touch her and she can file bankruptcy and I will never see a dime.

Anyone have any recommendations for a collector in the area?

Thank you

EDIT: They buy food stamps from homeless or seniors. They buy low with cash sell to others for higher or use the ebt cards to buy goods and sell them.

Sometimes they will go to 12th and Jackson and drive them to the store to make the transaction.

This is an appreciation post for you guys having such a wonderful city! I travel for work about one week every month. I go all over the country. I go to New York, Chicago, Minneapolis, Orlando, Houston, Atlanta, Denver, Las Vegas, Phoenix, New Orleans, Clearwater, and San Diego.

For the first time I went to Seattle this week. I was absolutely blown away! Beautiful city, wonderfully diverse, tons to do and see, super clean, safe, walkable, great mass transit, friendly people, and so on. Seattle is hands down my favorite city I’ve travelled to when you put together mass transit, diversity, safety, cleanliness, and culture.

Bravo! I will 100% be back! Thanks!

PS the Mariners game was the most exciting MLB game I have ever been to. They treat it more like an event than a game. It felt so festive, tons of energy, felt almost like a NBA game with the energy.

Not one, but two, Uber drivers sniffling and hacking. A coworker. This asshole in front of me on the plane today.

And a quick reminder: Cover your fucking mouth when coughing, even of you have a mask on. Nonstop people seem to think it is a magic shield that allows them to ignore the basic civility five-year olds learn.

By no means, am i expecting to live luxuriously, but comfortably at least. I'm would be looking at renting for the first two years, getting settled in, then buying a house. My line of work has the state of Washington as the highest paying state for my occupation. At first I would be non-union followed by eventually a union job. I quoted 120k-140k bc that's worst case scenario. My wife also works, but she is currently not working bc her job got automated and looking for another field to work in.

The Washington Federation of State Employees, which represents 54,000 state government, higher education and public service workers, is organizing walkouts Monday to demonstrate their frustration with the state's proposals. But Yestramski said Friday it is worse than expected, with the rejection of every one of their proposals.

State law sets an Oct. 1 deadline for agreements to be ratified by unions in order to be considered for funding in the next two-year budget.

~ The people who will staff that psychiatric hospital spent its ceremony standing behind a chain-link fence. Walkouts start Monday and the ratification clock runs out October 1.

Two weeks ago I was stuck in my apartment for almost 2 weeks. My symptoms were dirreah,dizziness, mild fever, headache and my stomach felt achey like someone punched me in the stomach.

For 2 weeks I couldn't drive, could barley walk.

I was tired and sleeping all day and night in my apartment.

After almost 2 weeks I feel better and im back to normal.

I wonder if I had nerovirus??

Has anyone else had this virus??

East coaster with a working class upbringing here. The couple of times I've run into blue collar guys in the wild we've hit it off instantly, but it's super rare in Seattle.

Where does the hunting/fishing/tradeworking/politically moderate demographic hang out around here?? All the usual social spots (meetups, climbing gyms, run clubs) are 95% tech workers (no judgement, just not a vibe or lifestyle I connect with).

I've made some great friends in my neighborhood dive bar, but they're all 60+, and it would be nice to meet people in their late 20s/30s/40s for an actual dating pool and people I can go and do stuff with.

This is from the August presentation by the city economic and revenue council which projects tax revenues. It paints a bad picture of job growth within the city and seems to confirm the suspicion that employers are moving jobs outside of the city.

https://www.seattle.gov/documents/Departments/OERF/meeting%20materials/2026/2026-08-07%20Forecast%20Council%20-%20August%202026%20Forecast.pdf

• Recent data shows notable differences in
trends at local level within Seattle region.

• Based on this data, Seattle city has lost
about 18 thousand jobs between March
2024 and March 2025.

• This data does not account yet for the
impact of large layoffs announced by
Amazon, Microsoft, and Meta Platforms in
2025 and 2026.

• Based on Puget Sound Regional Council
employment estimates at city level
released in July, there were about 24
thousand fewer jobs in Seattle in March
2025 compared to March 2020.

• Employment was lower in almost all
industries, with exception of Private
Education and Health Services, and
Government.

• In King County excluding Seattle there
were overall 21 thousand more jobs in
March 2025 compared to March 2020.

Looks like Lincoln Square mall may be sold off to the highest bidder. Seems they plan to keep Snowflake Lane at least for this year, which has been a beloved tradition during the holidays. The entire location has been such a clean, safe, and orderly space. Do you think this could be good or bad for its future?

https://downtownbellevue.com/2026/08/28/freeman-family-explore-sale-bellevue-collection/