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Why was there so much graffiti on it? I thought cap Hill was a good neighborhood.
by comesee 8y ago
Why was there so much graffiti on it? I thought cap Hill was a good neighborhood.
- paulie_a 8y agoIt's probably a higher density neighborhood, which tends to means more assholes. I live in a nice neighborhood and constantly see new tags to point I want to start writing "sucks" under the persons name.
- igotsideas 8y agoThat’s not graffiti, that’s tagging.
- fenwick67 8y agotagging is graffiti but okay
- igotsideas 8y agoComing from someone who grew up in it, it’s two different things. Think of graff as art and tagging as throwing up your alias to get your name seen or mess up someone’s piece. But okay :)
- c3534l 8y agoThe dictionary disagrees with your folk distinction.
- LocalH 8y agoThe dictionary isn't a language gatekeeper, however.
- comesee 8y agoEither way, good neighborhoods don't have rampant tagging or graffiti. So what's going on there?
- igotsideas 8y agoPeople are smiling and enjoying themselves within the confines of rampant tagging and graffiti in Capital Hill. People are fighting to live there these days. One negative is we have a missing mystery soda machine in the neighborhood.
- Elidrake24 8y agoPortland would be a solid example of how distinguishing between the two is important. I wouldn't at all call it a bad area.
- jupiter90000 8y agoIf by good neighborhood you mean people smoking meth in building entryways, gun standoffs with police, addicts breaking into cars, parks overrun with derelicts, and armed robbery, then sure. http://www.capitolhillseattle.com/2018/07/why-isnt-capitol-hill-more-afraid-of-crime/ http://www.capitolhillseattle.com/2018/07/why-isnt-capitol-h...
- prolikewh0a 8y agoCan confirm. I live on Broadway at the north end before it turns into 10th and one night out my window I heard a homeless guy screaming "JUST FKING DO IT. KILL ME". I go to my window and a guy has a gun pointed against his forehead, presumably a drug dealer since he was asking for his money. This screaming went on for a good 15 minutes while the drug dealer repeatedly hit him. I've seen theft happen everywhere, people on meth screaming all night, homeless people sleep on the sidewalk no matter what, people shooting up on your door steps, dead homeless people, etc. The thing is I never felt really threatened by anyone, including the people who were extremely high on whatever cocktails they had in their systems. It seemed like everyone was really just trying to survive or to escape their terrible, hopeless reality. I don't hate these people who are obviously under massive stress and have obviously nothing, but it's a very good look into the reality of what problems Seattle really has.
- comesee 8y agoI wonder why your city government doesn't do something to help these people. Open shelters, mental health centers, etc. These people have issues, they shouldn't be left in the streets to be prey for drug dealers.