come to the 509, its prolly more your style, seattle is too big, too many neighborhoods, from the way it sounds you was in the area i was in, i was over by a chineese resteraunt called nikkos, and across from that was an over priced taco place, and across the busy street was a wendys, that neighborhood was horribly, nothin there, and some white guy with a blue rag tryd confronting us cause my buddy had a white rag on, but the fool walked away, did nothing,i aint knockin seatle, shits big i was prolly just in a lame neighborhood like you, but i been to pasco, its kinda like an all mexican version of kali, like sd or madesto, tacomas pretty tight too, i live in spokane, its kinda crazy at times, the cops here aint shit so all kinds of shit pops off that you wont hear about, i love the vibe here, lower eastside or the lower westside is the types of neighborhoods youd like, anyways, dont knock a city cause you only been there once, and dont knock the whole northwest cause you only been to a couple towns