I moved from san francisco to seattle about 2 years ago. It was already well on the way, but I'd say that in that time, we've gotten about 85-90% through becom

I moved from san francisco to seattle about 2 years ago. It was already well on the way, but I'd say that in that time, we've gotten about 85-90% through becoming san francsico. It's not 100 because the poop and transit situations are really great here, relative to SF. I would agree that if you're moving to seattle to escape the ails of the bay area, you're buying yourself, at most, 18 months. You've gotta go somewhere earlier stage to get a meaningfully different experience. Also of note: the tech animosity is definitely of a different flavor here. "Amazon" is the entire tech industry, and if you're remotely affiliated with them, people outside of tech will blatantly, intentionally disassociate with you. When learning I don't work for amazon, people start confiding in me all kinds of really insane, overblown feelings about their mental image of the tech elite. Strangely, I've had a person at a bar shit talk amazon and their impact on the city about 90 seconds before revealing that he was... a lawyer? That surprised me, since they were the original rich guys everyone loved to hate. It's not just tied to wealth - seattle is really pissed about what they feel is cultural erosion.