Some more Seattle tidbits while im thinking about them.

[dolari]

There are more teriyaki places here than there are people.

I can't find family sized anything around here and people look at me funny when I ask "where are the three litres?"

HEB stores are massive compared to QFC. QFCs are tiny and have nothing but straightup groceries.

In Texas Im a liberal. In Seattle im a left leaning conservative. In Canada im a rightwing fascist. XD

The chinese food here is better. Mass transit too. Mexican food not so much. Good luck finding fried chicken (The nearest Church's? Vancouver)

Washington has volcanos.

People here are kinda snobby, and look at me funny when I say y'all.

I don't nearly the amount of grief I got in Texas for being trans.

Seattle's Pikes Place Market is what San Antonio's El Mercado used to be before it got all touristy.

Downtown is all uphill no matter WHERE your going.

It does occasionally get sunny and even hot here.

I've been here a month and a week.

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[carly-kai.livejournal.com]

Try Bainbridge Island for mexican food - the downtown area is an easy walk from the ferry terminal from downtown Seattle. It's a nice little trip and you only pay for the ferry on one end.

[pazi-ashfeather.livejournal.com]

For the closest equivalent to HEB, you might try Fred Meyer's. They're mostly in the suburbs outside the city, though there are one or two inside Seattle proper. They have far more than groceries.

Snobby is a perpetual Seattle problem. :( More people than not weren't born in Washington state, and yet somehow people who've been here just a couple years will start seriously griping about newcomers. So do many of the bona fide locals; they just cast their nets wider about it. On top of that, much of Seattle's young urban professional population (as well as other elements) is currently buying into a trend that seems bound and determined to turn Seattle into a pale reflection of Manhattan. That sort of social elitism seems to come with the territory.

Far too many Americans with a Midlander accent need to get their heads out their arses about "y'all." Second-person collective pronouns are useful, dammit. When I say it, people assume I'm from "the South", which is evidently a single homogenous place to them. (As opposed to when I say "sorry"...then they assume I'm from Canada. XD )

For Mexican, try Senor Moose in Ballard. Qdoba has decent fast-food Mexican. My best friend, who's from Mexico, seems to think they're pretty dandy...

Pike Market is touristy as hell. There are probably more tourists there than residents on most days.

And yeah, Seattle's not as rainy as everyone outside it thinks. :p The Olympic mountains catch most of it. Portland and Bellingham get a lot more consistent rainfall.

[jenndolari.livejournal.com]

>Far too many Americans with a Midlander accent need to get their heads out
>their arses about "y'all." Second-person collective pronouns are useful,
>dammit.

It's funny. Everyone who NEVER said "y'all" begin saying it after they meet me (or any Texan, I'm sure). Two hundred years from now there'll be little pockets of "y'all" all over hte northwest between Emily and me. :)

[pazi-ashfeather.livejournal.com]

Oh, they're already here. ^^ You just have to travel even slightly off the beaten path.

[chaoticset.livejournal.com]

*giggles* Three liter bottles...heh. That reminds me of spending time with my aunt in North Carolina...fark, two decades ago. :\

When did I get this old, and how do I return the years...?

I'm glad you're happy... :)

[jadaze.livejournal.com]

The proliferation of Teriyaki, I think, was something almost unique to Seattle. Article (http://www.seattleweekly.com/2007-08-15/food/how-teriyaki-became-seattle-s-own-fast-food-phenomenon.php).

I noticed that too when I came out here - no 3 liters? Perhaps at Costco?

Safeways here can be excellent, but that depends entirely on their size. If it's smaller than giant, it might have a crappy selection. Fred Meyer is pretty spiffy, but I've only been to one of them.

Chinese food is win, but boy do they vary in my neighborhood. Something that seems rare is BBQ pork that isn't the cold style slices.

So... lemme think... good Mexican out here generally is at chain restaurants. There used to be a shop near here that had a gruff old man running it, but he closed it when he retired... so I think they key there is to look for the longest lasting Mexican place you can find. (:

There's a fried chicken shop opening up down the street from us. I'll keep you apprised! Most KFCs have closed, and if you find a Popeye's, it's about as good as it gets.

Yeah, we're all wondering when Rainier will go ka-BEWM.

Really snobby. Really rude. When I lived in NY you'd hear all the time about how rude NYers were... man, they must never have met a Seattleite.

Downtown is how I destroyed my feet. o.o

[jenndolari.livejournal.com]

>Something that seems rare is BBQ pork that isn't the cold style slices.

That was the first time I've ever had that. All the BBQ pork I 've had before was just that - hot pork in a chinese BBQ sauce. :)

>There's a fried chicken shop opening up down the street from us. I'll keep
>you apprised! Most KFCs have closed, and if you find a Popeye's, it's about
>as good as it gets.

Maybe I spoke too soon. There are two KFCs in Renton (I can't have KFC, one of their herbs&spices makes my gall bladder scream), as well as an Ezell's! Man Ezell's is GOOOD.

>Yeah, we're all wondering when Rainier will go ka-BEWM.

jessie_c put it best: "The scenery is so beautiful up here, isn't it? It just has a bad habit of occasionally exploding."

[mundanecircus.livejournal.com]

pazi_ashfeather:
For the closest equivalent to HEB, you might try Fred Meyer's. They're mostly in the suburbs outside the city, though there are one or two inside Seattle proper. They have far more than groceries.

There's also Safeway, which has stores up and down the coast -- though Jenn is probably familiar with its Texas sister, "Randall's".

Jenn:The chinese food here is better. Mass transit too.
If only its Park and Ride parking is more plentiful (as Jenn mentioned earlier).

Jenn:Good luck finding fried chicken (The nearest Church's? Vancouver)

Washington or BC?

[jenndolari.livejournal.com]

Vancouver BC

[lisalees.livejournal.com]

Well, it sounds a heck of a lot nicer than mid-Michigan.

I'm glad y'all are settlin' in and findin' your way 'round.

[laura-seabrook.livejournal.com]

There are more teriyaki places here than there are people.

That may be a lot better than Newcastle here, where the same seems to apply for dentists and dental clinics.