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Monday, June 21, 2010

The Seattle Freeze, Bellingham Curse, and Simple Solution to it

When I lived in Washington state, it was like a religion. Everyone thought it was wonderful and great and expected you to agree. If you didn't, you would be seen as weird and negative. Seattleites got defensive if you had negative things to say about their beloved land.

But the reality is that there is a "Seattle Freeze" that affects the social environment which makes it hard to make friends and connect with others. Simply put, people were very polite, but distant and non-inclusive. They didn't like to connect with others or meet new people. The motto was "Have a nice day. Somewhere else."

Yet if you were not allowed to complain about this. If you did, Washingtonians became defensive and condemning, telling you that you're the only one who thinks that and that everyone else loves Washington. They refused to hear any evidence to the contrary.

Yet this "Seattle Freeze" was real. The media even reported on it. Here is an article about it in the Seattle Times:


And more recently, a YouTube documentary about it has been created, citing the phenomenon as real. You can see the video here:


I even have some photos that show this "Seattle Freeze" in public, taken aboard a Seattle Ferry. Notice how everyone is isolated in their own bubble, wanting to be alone, not needing any social interaction. Obviously, this is not the right environment for an extrovert.


Now, contrast that with these photos I took during a ferry ride in Riga, Latvia (in Eastern Europe). Even though the ride was in the late afternoon, people still knew how to party and dance. Here you see a mini-disco lounge on board the ferry being enjoyed by the passengers.


This "freeze" is an intrinsic part of the Pacific Northwest in general, not just Seattle. People are just reserved, ghost-like and introverted. It is one of the hardest places in the world to make friends or get dates.

Being stuck in Bellingham, WA for years, I even wrote a long treatise about what a nightmare it was, which you can see here:


Now the GOOD NEWS is that I have an easy solution to it. It involves not only leaving the Northwest, but the country altogether! Doing so works wonders and changes your universe! Just look at all these testimonials.


Visit my website to learn more, and to learn that the problem is NOT you, but the society you live in!


Thanks,
Winston

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7 comments:

  1. AnonymousJanuary 20, 2011 at 5:53 PM

    I have heard that the Pacific Northwest has the most unfriendly and anti-social people in the US.

    I have also heard guys say that the women who live there are fat and as ugly as sin! Thank God I don't live there! However there are also a lot of fatties and uglies where I live as too!

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  2. Nik MillsAugust 12, 2016 at 9:41 PM

    Portland is the same. I cannot wait to leave this backward, unfriendly dump of a city. Oregon is a place for people who don't like people.

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  3. Moon ChildMay 12, 2017 at 3:42 PM

    I live in the Pacific NW and I'm not fat and ugly. When I was in my 20s and 30s, I had plenty of friends in Seattle. That was in the 1980s and generally I felt that people were friendly. Then the high-tech companies came in and everything was about making money and the vibe became more introverted, cold and distant. But to generalize about all of Seattle, is unfair.

    Not everyone fits that stereotype. I'm glad you found happier people abroad. But you'll never find Utopia. Everywhere you go, you will find fault with the people, eventually.

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  4. UnknownApril 6, 2018 at 4:24 AM

    I live in Estonia and am from Vancouver, BC. People are friendly and chatty Eastern Europe if they are drinking. They are actually quite antisocial. It doesnt bother me since im an also quiet. Glad i left Vancouver. Im also Estonian but Canadian born. Never fit in North America. No place on earth is an Utopia.

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  5. Josephty2October 3, 2019 at 9:06 PM

    The name seattle means "Stay away from here". https://www.seattletimes.com/pacific-nw-magazine/our-social-dis-ease-beyond-the-smiles-the-seattle-freeze-is-on/

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  6. Josephty2November 9, 2019 at 6:37 PM

    if you're born in certain places for some reason if you go to a place like seattle you'll get some of the worst treatment ever, and natives are treated completely differently. A combination of passive agressiveness, twofacedness, psychopathic xenophobic stares, "anti-life" feeling, two-facedness, etc.

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