#seattle stuff

Lady to my right: What do you fish for?

Me (quiety to my friend): Nothing, they're a tugboat.

Guy on the boat: Nothing. We're a tug boat.

Hehe.

mmm!! ok so like lets be real im Not That Creative or Exciting so like these are going to be very mellow things. im not here to make you trek across the city so ill try to split it up by location

capitol hill

go to melrose market if you wanna just see a lot of cool artisan shit thats super fucking yummy and pretty and stuff. theres this restaurant in there called sitka and spruce and its truly unreal 

molly moons is a local ice cream place that rules and theres one on the hill right across the street from cal anderson park and if its nice out u should walk around cal anderson or just lounge on the turf thats my favorite activity 

seattle is super into speakeasys and i know there are some in belltown and like fremont? but im never there so i dont know them lmao what i do know is uuum knee high stocking co and needle & thread are both on the hill and i havent been but ive heard nooothing but good things. n&t is reservation only but u go into an already cool and fancy restaurant and theres this fuckin bank vault door with a fancy vintage phone that you call up to its very neat

lotta good secondhand shopping on the hill as well

elliot bay book company rules and has a nice lil cafe as well

more northern stuff

kerry park has the sickest view of seattle

greenlake park is my fave place on the planet, especially if its sunny out. very good pokemon go here. it is also close to my favorite bar on the planet, little red hen. it is cowboy themed and they give you too much alcohol and also theres a squaredancing floor. embrace american culture

wallingford, fremont and ballard are all just generally like… very cute? like you can wander around and find good food and stuff veeeeery easily. musashi and tilth and kabul in wallingford are the best (all restaurants)

the space needle et all can choke but that area is actually really cute?? like the vera project rules and theres the siff cinema right there which plays a lot of really cool movies

downtown and etc

i mean go to pike place if u want. its fun i like it i still go all the time. good food nice folks. mee sum pastry rules and is so cheap. avoid storyville coffee they seem very fancy and cool but theyre affiliated with this really heinous and evil church.

the seattle art museum is cool and i love it but also if you just wander through pioneer square theres a billion galleries that are all really lovely and its like a generally cool place to be 

the seattle public library is SO fucking cool like for real its a piece of architectural genius and its just so cool to see

tsukushinbo is my fave restaurant check out their lunch specials know theres like always a line outside the door before they open and if you wanna go there for dinner you need a reservation

theres the panorama if youre into watching movies on huge ass screens!

cheap: 

there are several resources for low income housing in seattle but most of them are going to require you to get on a waitlist. here’s a good website for that

a lot of people do house shares in the university district/ravenna/etc are (more north seattle) and i’m sure there are some facebook groups to find roommates

if ur queer there is the seattle queer housing group on fb but i swon to john if you’re not queer dont even think about trying to join or i will find you and remove you myself

there are buy nothing groups on facebook for like every district in the city so that’s nice

apply for food stamps and if u qualify and receive them you get extra money at farmers markets and the like. june-october you can get like $10 extra and nov-may there are some places that will give u half off all produce (a few stands at pike place do this, it’s the best, their office will help you out)

you can apply for the orca link pass which is cheaper bus fare it is suuuuper easy to do like they got me mine within ten minutes and it takes bus fare from $2.25-3 to $1.50 for everything and a monthly pass is $50 

on the first thursday of every month entrance to the seattle art museum is free and all the galleries in pioneer square stay open a lot later

any business with more than 100 employees is going to pay $15 an hour at least. smaller businesses are not required to pay that much yet, i think theyre around $11-$12

cool spots/places to avoid:

i love pike place (not pikes place) and like ive lived here most of my life feel free to be a tourist its a really fun environment and theres a lot of good food, my favorite restaurant ever is a block away on 1st and virginia its called le pichet and if u can eat dairy and bread please go there and enjoy for me i miss it so much every day. el borracho is literally right about the market and they have $1 taco happy hour and its ideal

theres this cool park above the convention center that i really like

capitol hill (dont call it cap hill, call it the hill if anything) has a lot of cool shit my favorite bars are montana, sun liquor’s distillery, big marios pizza is great, blah blah. lotta good food. plum bistro is a really amazing fancy vegan restaurant, ba bar is a bit out of the way but super yummy, hana is great, roy st coffee is this cafe i recently fell in love with and its like owned by starbucks but its so nice lmao really good coffee its fucking huge and all the seats are comfy. elliott bay bookstore rules and its right next to cal anderson park which is The place to sit and chill in summer, molly moons is this killer ice cream place which is also right around the corner

dont bother with the space needle the columbia tower has a better view anyway lmao

madison valley beach owns its a grassy waterfront, really nice in the summer. i dont bother with alki beach or golden gardens or whatever

there are very few times ive felt unsafe here, idk… i live like right on the border of the international district and pioneer square and my friend got mugged here a few months back, a few folks i know have gotten mugged in belltown, it’s what it’s. just be smart and you’ll be fine. there’s a lot of cool shit in all three of the places mentioned above so like live your life

northern seattle is gonna be more residential so theres ballard, fremont, ravenna, etc. ballard is like. its very Quirky and also they hate poor people theres like one bus that goes to ballard and its always late but theres some good food up there. if you go further north you get to shoreline/northgate/etc and it’s gonna be a Commute to get into seattle proper but definitely much cheaper

you should also look into west seattle because it rules and it’s like basically its own little city but much more chill and much cheaper

greenlake park is my favorite place on planet earth maybe