The Seattle Freeze

A documentary short.

Correction: Dr. Jodi O'Brien is a professor at Seattle University, and not from Seattle Pacific University as stated in the video.

Category:

Film & Animation

Tags:

• documentary
• seattle

[swarze]

I have lived in New York, Louisville, Sydney, Boston. Never have I met more cold people in my life. If one more person tells me how polite they are here, I will politely hit them in the freaking face. They are NOT polite in Capitol Hill where I currently live. I have had the door slammed in my face so many times, I now laugh when it happens. But my New York habit of leaving the door open for the person behind me generally is met with no "thank you" whatsoever.

[Knepperify1]

@brandisman1

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Nonsense. Hundred's of people reporting the exact same behavior denotes a trend.

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Yours is a typical passive-aggressive, arrogant, Seattle response. You are perfect, therefore all criticism of you and your city is invalid.

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I know people who went YEARS without making any new friends. You invite people over and they simply look at you blankly. You suggest a date to a woman and she just looks at you blankly, saying nothing, controlling her body language.

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Seattle is messed up.

[marlowharris]

If one is finding it difficult to make friends, perhaps there is something undesirable about them. That is, perhaps it's not them, it's you.

[handsomerube]

this so-called "seattle freeze" is simply a shitty label for introverted people. let's call it like it is: certain cities have a greater ratio of introverts vs. extroverts. seattle clearly has more introverted people living there vs. los angeles, new york, etc., where it is definitely more fitting for extroverted personalities. nothing wrong with either. if a city doesn't fit your personality, you can always move...

[TheLogicJunkie]

I think this video is full of cop-outs. From my experience, the people of the Pacific Northwest are actually closet Teutonic supremacists who don't want anyone to know just how eugenically narcissistic they really are, and how far they really carry their klannish discrimination of certain select outsiders -- particularly those who do not seem to be of Northern European ethnicity.

[JayBearization]

i definately noticed the freeze. Even people I became friends with at work whom I've known for quite awhile have a hard time taking our friendship outside of work. People here have a serious fear of intimacy.

[CleverDjembe]

@MrButtbanger

People are friendly when you are a friend?

[TheEvilOyo2]

@jam6255 stokholm has the same weather and doesn't have the coldness. so does nyc, and upstate ny and it's nothing like that, ppl here are just cold as fuck for no reason.