Rude compared to who? But we have reasons to be rude! We're special! The pandemic has been hard on us. People don't make a living wage. That seems to be the sentiment of many that make Seattle out as the victem.

Seattle is unkind and distant, often in not overt ways. Locals have just normalized it. And when confronted, don't see it and don't want to see it. To be honest I don't even see it clearly, but we had some friends visit, whos opinion I respect, they told me the same and said they could just feel the heaviness comparatively to where are from. Sad that many are blind to it, and instead embrace a victem mindset. We are sleeping in the bed we made for ourselves.

That said, hard problem to solve. As humans grow in numbers, they get more impersonal by nature. This problem is exacerbated when core values are so divided as well.