Just finished watching Frasier and my only complaint is that it makes zero sense for the show to be set in Seattle. I grew up in early 00's Pacific Northwest and trust me, Seattle wasn't some classy urban jungle where you could wave down a cab on every corner. It was grunge hangover suburbia and Microsoft nerds.

Niles fretting about the stodgy co-op board in a pre-war high rise called "The Montana?" Lmao what. All those legacy old-money institutions? We don't really have those. Seattleites wear t-shirts to dinner and they certainly don't give a shit about the opera. The kind of rigid class divisions you see in the Acela Corridor and Chicago also don't really exist on the West Coast, everyone here larps as an unemployed 30-something even if they make $500k/yr. No one on the show really has a West Coast sensibility either, especially Marty. It's all very Rust Belt.

Clearly the setting is supposed to be "Major legacy US city that isn't on the East Coast." Okay, so Chicago. Nowhere else really fits the bill. It feels like that's what it was supposed to be, then they changed it to Seattle at the last second.

>>213771486 (OP)
>Ayo dr crane dem wipepo be raycis an shit cuz
>Well I um...thank you for calling Tyrone...
Fucking can't imagine why it wasn't set in chimpcongo.

>>213771665
kino

What was 2000 era Seattle like?

>>213772523
Unbelievably cozy.

Any other seattlites wanna debate this? Interesting discussion because it really does skew the image of seattle

>>213772523
Better than current day Seattle by a long shot

Trying to find a park without a homeless tent in it nowadays is next to impossible

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>>213774191
I've lived here for only 3 years now but the thing about "500k a year nerdy faggot larping the STRUGGLE" is pretty accurate. And no, there's no culture here. And the food scene sucks. I'm actually shocked at how much Seattle's food sucks.

>>213774260
When did this start? I don't remember seeing it at scale until like 2013, maybe even later