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I grew up in Seattle and just was visiting my sister in NYC who is attending NYU. Yeah people on the east coast are friendlier. Lol. People in Seattle are nice once you get to know them, but it’s hard to break through the freeze.
If you are moving from the East Coast. Especially NYC then yes. Ppl stick to their own groups and aren’t as nearly social. Most of the folks who go out are really young so if you’re 30+ and single, it might be quite difficult to mingle.
Humm it is but it isn’t. I don’t remember going through the Seattle freeze when we moved to Seattle area in 2006. In fact that fall we had a bad winter storm with lots of ice abs power outage. We lost power, one of my co-workers, who only knew me for about 1-2 months through work took not only myself into her home with her family, but my family too. There were 4 of us.
I am very introverted too, that could be why I didn’t notice it much.
Now the “Midwest Nice” I’m currently dealing with now after our move back to WI is terrible. Worse than any Seattle Freeze. 😞
Also I forgot to add a very important part. I am married with two kiddos. We moved as a family. That could have been why I didn’t feel the brunt of the Seattle freeze. When we first moved to the area we rented an apartment in Kenmore, WA.
I have heard the dating scene is tough. I had a friend who grew up in Western WA, she had divorced and was trying to break into the dating by scene around Seattle. It was tough for her and she’s lived in Western WA all her live.
There is a company (I forget the name) you can join. They basically take single people out on hikes around the area. The hopes is it will give singles in the area who like to hike and be outdoors meet someone and form friendships/relationships. I recall the membership was $$. I had looked it up for my divorces friend as she loves outdoors stuff
In my 20s I felt it when we moved here from CA - harder to crack into social circles. In my 30s we built a network of friends thru shared interests - mixture of coworkers, sports, gaming, kids/daycare as you would moving anywhere. Freeze lifted/not felt.
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Yes, it’s not easy to make friends here! You can definitely break past it, you just have to work harder than you would elsewhere and not take any lack of interest from people personally. Generally it’s easier to make friends with other transplants as well
I think it’s real and takes a year or two. I came from Midwest so to me so everyone felt cold. I remember walking downtown and thought everyone was giving me weird looks. In the Midwest I was so used to making eye contact with everyone with a smile and when I did it downtown seattle, I WAS getting weird looks. Be aggressive with making plans, though Have more than one friend. Aka Don’t be that friend that calls their friend to do something every weekend. Have other people who recently have moved into the area. It gets sad sometimes when transplants Aka your new best friend decides to move elsewhere, but once you find yourself the group that makes you feel most at home, you’ll forget the freeze existed and get closer to the ones who stay. Get good at planning and plan huge trips combining a different group of friends. They will appreciate it and also when they get invited to those trips, they invite you and you get to meet a WHOLE bunch of people. It happens about every couple years for me, getting introduced to new group of people and finding 1-2 people I really want to be friends with, or just can see myself spending a lot of time with. If you face the freeze, more than not, a lot of people are dealing with things internally / mentally and I wouldn’t take it personal.
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Yes it’s real. However if you make an effort to join groups for activities you like to do such as hike, volunteer, paint, etc. it is super easy.
Yes it’s true. It feels like a gender imbalance on the ground. Like 10 guys for every woman. All the guys I knew either brought their wife/girlfriend from another state or they eventually just gave up. Breaking into guy circles has always been easy. I was in Bellevue and spent a couple years in Everett growing up. It’s always been a tough place to date. I suspect women have a better experience up there 🤷♂️
😂😂PWC1 so true. It’s definitely the goods are odd. My 15th or so failure the woman tells me she sleeps with her ferrett. Check please…. I found my wife but nowhere near Seattle.
Lol yes.