Chicken Teriyaki Bowl #7

Brett Nordquist blogs about what he misses about downtown Seattle now that he is working in Redmond.  Now I’m terribly homesick.

We lived in the Seattle area for 13 years, but worked downtown Seattle.  The last 3-4 years we lived in Belltown, a neighborhood directly north of the downtown shopping area.  Now I live in a smallish city in Eastern Washington.

I miss all the people in Seattle; being able to go out and meet someone for lunch or coffee every day.  I miss seeing all of the strange and wonderful characters on the street.  I miss being able to talk to people about pretty much anything without them completely blowing you off.  I miss the Indian food, the Ethiopian food, the sushi.

I really miss the hundreds of places to just hang out.

I miss the elderly gentleman who sat at my table one day at Starbucks Pacific Place and told me that I should talk to one stranger every day.  We had a lovely conversation about being spontaneous and I never saw him again after that.

I even miss the Frye Apartments heckler guy in front of Pacific Place.

I miss walking down to Pioneer Square to the New Orleans on Friday nights for blues and gumbo.  I miss the Highway 99 club.  I miss the library, even though I could never find anything in it.

I miss being able to walk almost everywhere and having transit to go to those places too far to walk.

I miss the ferries, the cruise ships docking just a block from our condo, the city dogs, Green Lake and Half Priced Books.

I miss the people most of all.  Online social networking only satisfies a small part; face to face time is vital.  And I miss that.

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