As someone who's been to Seattle a grand total of once 6 years ago, I still thought it was weird when their downtown was described as "lively". After my trip I

As someone who's been to Seattle a grand total of once 6 years ago, I still thought it was weird when their downtown was described as "lively". After my trip I told people that Seattle seemed to have a "fake downtown" to me. This was mostly because of how dead it seemed to me. I stayed in a downtown hotel and walked around the city for a few days and my overwhelming feeling was nothingness (other than Pike Place market).