The Seattle Freeze

i lived here all my life and have never ever experienced difficulty making friends or meeting people... and its not like im going to talk to strangers lol.. i never even heard about the freeze til now...weird. but im bias, ive never been anywhere else.

Huh, I thought I was the only one who noticed the freeze phenomenon til now! But it is TOTALLY true. I find PNW ppl are mostly very icy and hard to connect with. I have been here for 9 yrs now and every time I go back to NY to visit fam its like nite and day. Ppl here seem like they need to be impressed and assume you are guilty of being not worth knowing unless proven innocent. Its very telling that natives are often very offended by this accusation but transplants unanomously notice the freeze

my theory ... Seattle is a place where people were too scared to move to Alaska ... but, in the end, my philosophy is GET OVER IT! Seattle is a city of whiners too, never forget that.

Ya, i agree. I have been here for years and people dont want to really hang out with me nor date me. I cant seem to actually befriend anyone here in seattle =/

i have been on both sides of this freeze thing-- all the way frozen out, and on the inside of a very large network of super fun friends. The freeze is real and only people who grew up here dont see it. While I was frozen out it was the worst. I don't blame anyone experiencing the freeze for saying awful things about Seattle. I was on the verge of fleeing to NYC, where things are easier. Its like there is some kind of barrier and once you cross it you are too busy to notice the freeze.

fair enough, though most of my own friends are transplants. and again, most of the population of Seattle *are* transplants, so any "freeze" theory must take that into account.

(by the way, i didn't see this until now because you didn't actually reply to my comment, so no notification was sent.)

i wouldn't presume to tell you to leave. i hope that you are able to do what makes you happy. all i've been saying is that i don't experience this alleged "freeze", so i don't believe that it is universal. though i have less solid information to support it (mostly anecdotes of some friends who have moved elsewhere), i expect that the same phenomenon occurs everywhere. given the nearly universal complaints i've seen online about how difficult it is in the dating world, i'd say that's more likely.

your new youk is economicaly dying and your corupt polititions skimped to the point that the lower ninth ward was washed away!
you should be fµcking shot and your offspring should be drowned in ether
thats like saying theres only 700 population in peters burg alaska because theres a great danger of bears and snow
if you would get off your black berrys and i-phones and talk to people face to face you will see true NW hospitiality and friendlyness
sad
GTFO MY SEATTLE!