"Which has plenty of capacity for transit, especially the mass, rapid sort that cities on the east side are so busy trying to prevent from being built." As it

"Which has plenty of capacity for transit, especially the mass, rapid sort that cities on the east side are so busy trying to prevent from being built." As it turns out, the east-siders aren't in general opposing transit. The major impediments are the fact that the highway commission and the transportation commission are at odds with each other, and the transportation commission here has an illustrious history of failures. "You see a nice house, I see rows of identical houses with equally identical people in it. I see stagnation and loss of perspective, as everything the least bit unseemly and incongruous with your hard-earned socioeconomic status is blissfully hidden." I agree with that. Those large subdivisions full of identical "luxury" homes are eyesores. I know a lot of people who live on the east side who constantly complain about how dull it is. In Seattle, you can get GOOD coffee from local mom & pop roasters (just wait until you try Trabant if you haven't already), on the east side you're stuck with one of the bizillion Charbucks scattered around, and the occasional Tully's, which is only slightly better than Charbucks.