My take on the East Side (coming from a Seattle POV) is the perception is that it's full of well off NIMBYs who work for Microsoft and that the area never had a

My take on the East Side (coming from a Seattle POV) is the perception is that it's full of well off NIMBYs who work for Microsoft and that the area never had any culture to lose. Amazon's move into the city has changed things that were there for decades. I'm new to Seattle though so technically part of the "problem".