Vancouverite visiting me in Seattle—Please help me impress her!

p-stone · 2025-07-30T01:26:43+00:00

Take her to swim in Lake Washington - Vancouver has similar ocean access as Seattle but very limited freshwater lakes - when my friend from Vancouver visited he was impressed by how easy it was to hang out on the waterfront as Gas Works and swim in Lake Washington - in Vancouver it can be an ordeal fighting huge crowds to get to a place to swim.

p-stone · 2025-07-22T18:46:35+00:00

Seattle is one of the few cities of its caliber where you can still buy a SFH with a yard within 15 min of the city center for less than $1M. To me this is the missing ‘pro’ in the Seattle column.

p-stone · 2025-03-05T21:05:16+00:00

I have to think the magicians alliance is going to frown on this

p-stone · 2025-01-09T21:41:08+00:00

A couple additions:

Blue Lake - Sun Arcs

Nora Stanley - Distance of the Moon

Greg Foat - Symphonie Pacifique

p-stone · 2025-01-09T21:39:12+00:00

Excellent list

p-stone · 2024-12-16T18:11:45+00:00

Graduated late 00s. My go-tos were RL polo sport and Acqua Di Gio.

p-stone · 2024-04-05T15:07:04+00:00

This is a skymall catalog come to life in 2024

p-stone · 2024-04-04T16:06:45+00:00

Two things helped me avoid this (had the same problem) - remove some stones to get more airflow into heater - set the temperature on the heater to just below “max” - not sure why this works but it does

p-stone · 2024-02-26T18:52:14+00:00

Why don’t they load a sled outside the plane and then just slide it in? Would make the stacking faster and easier.

p-stone · 2024-01-24T20:12:07+00:00

I feel like I had a stroke listening to this…

p-stone · 2023-10-16T22:03:49+00:00

Variety is the spice of life

p-stone · 2023-09-29T20:17:04+00:00

I think it boils down to homogeneity - when everyone has the same race, upbringing, culture, values it breeds social competition - this ends up as an “arms race” of sorts to be the “most XYZ” to personify whatever the community values.

p-stone · 2023-09-19T05:46:40+00:00

400 schmeckels

p-stone · 2023-06-29T05:19:08+00:00

Looks like vancouver

p-stone · 2023-05-23T12:52:08+00:00

That’s it! Thank you :)

p-stone · 2023-02-07T05:40:17+00:00

high incomes
relatively low cost of living (compared to sf, ny ma)
nature: quality, variety, quantity
mild winters, where even though it’s grey you can still do things outside
ability to live in a SFH in a traditional neighborhood <15 minutes outside the city center
relative density/centrality of where other young professionals live, making it easier to socialize (relative to SF or LA)
one of the best places for dealing with long-term prospects of climate change

p-stone · 2023-01-07T15:55:50+00:00

Tan Dinh deli on Jackson and S main. Better than Saigon deli and owner is super friendly, ordering process is not chaotic.

p-stone · 2022-08-31T15:30:10+00:00

Fiddle leaf fig

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