I don't know if I ever really saw Seattle's 'soul' when I lived there for 3 years. Granted, I lived in the North part. I saw a lot of white and asian people (

I don't know if I ever really saw Seattle's 'soul' when I lived there for 3 years. Granted, I lived in the North part. I saw a lot of white and asian people (mainly dudes) looking at their feet or looking at their phones. Seattle is one of the most difficult places to strike up a conversation with strangers or get people to actually want to hang out (worse if they are locals). South Seattle, on the other hand, truly has 'soul'. Rainier Beach at one point was the most diverse zip code in the entire USA. You got to a coffee shop there and you'll see groups of east africans, latinos, all mixes of asian, white, african american, you name it. It's got gritty parts, nicer parts, and all sorts of interesting restaurants and grocery stores. The Amazon people don't tend to live or congregate down there as much. As far as cap hill, fremont, wallingford, u-dist, you can keep it. A bunch of bland ass wealthy white/asian dudes looking at the ground. I moved to SF and lived there for a couple years. The gentrification and rent is bad but the diversity and mix of people across most of the neighborhoods still beats north seattle hands down. It was a way more eclectic interesting experience than anything my Seattle time could offer.