seattle: Seeking Seattle Freeze stories

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eshqi) wrote in

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@ 2007-01-05 08:40:00

Seeking Seattle Freeze stories
Looking for people who have experienced the social phenomenon known as the Seattle Freeze (see this article for an explanation: http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/pacificnw/2005/0213/cover.html).

Specifically looking for a few people who are able to tell a story (or relay many smaller incidents) about having encountered this and how it has affected you a great deal (did you move away because of it?), and be comfortable telling your story in front of a camera.

This is purely volunteer/non-paid for a short film project.

edit: email if interested.

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	scearley 2007-01-05 04:49 pm UTC (link)
	Seattle Freeze? Never heard of it. Thanks for bringing it to our attention. (Reply to this)

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	iheartretards 2007-01-05 07:57 pm UTC (link)
	if I saw someone beating someone else up I'd think "shit, he must have fucked up real good" and keep walking. not my business. (Reply to this) (Parent)(Thread)

	obscurist 2007-01-05 04:56 pm UTC (link)
	Somehow I doubt this is unique to seattle. (Reply to this) (Thread)

	imperator_mei 2007-01-09 05:18 pm UTC (link)
	Yeah, I'm totally with you on this. What's interesting about the Seattle Freeze phenomenon is that so many people in Seattle are obsessed with it. I mean, someone please show me the city where everyone is genuinely friendly and can't walk down the street without issuing at least two invitations to dinner per block. Geh. (Reply to this) (Parent)

	inkprincess 2007-01-05 05:08 pm UTC (link)
	I haven't made one IRL friend since I moved here (2 years today, actually!) LOL maybe it's because i'm a tattooed freak though, and not the freeze. :) (Reply to this) (Thread)

	teh_dirty_robot 2007-01-05 05:29 pm UTC (link)
	Really? Are you reaching out to people? Are you going out at all? Do you work? I've lived here for 3 years and have made lots of friends--I've found the dating scene here to be really tough, but that's probably because I'm batshit crazy and also not the freeze. :D (Reply to this) (Parent)(Thread)

	joandirk 2007-01-05 05:42 pm UTC (link)
	Hey, let's do something sometime. :) (Reply to this) (Parent)

	obscurist 2007-01-05 05:46 pm UTC (link)
	I think that the not from the seattle thing used to be more of a stigma than it is now. If people are still bent about that then do you really want to be their friend anyways? (Reply to this) (Parent)(Thread)

	mr_sadhead 2007-01-05 05:51 pm UTC (link)
	I've seen it in action. Some not-from-here says "Pike's Market" and it's open season. (Reply to this) (Thread)

	kent 2007-01-05 06:22 pm UTC (link)
	That's not "the Seattle freeze." That's a visitor not noticing that no signs, no tourist maps, and no guidebooks call it "pikes market" (as the deleted poster did). There's no such thing. It's a public market at Pike Place. Pike Street and Pike Place are named after a person, a builder named John Pike, but it's not his market. It was formed much later. (Reply to this) (Parent)(Thread)

	inkprincess 2007-01-05 06:15 pm UTC (link)
	very true! i now live in a small rural community in Gig Harbor and everyday when i walk my daughter to the school bus stop we get waves. it was kinda freaky at first! lol. (Reply to this) (Parent)

	sgtred 2007-01-05 06:14 pm UTC (link)
	Like the article says, "Sixty percent of us here today are from out of state. " The problem isn't us, it's you. (Reply to this) (Thread)

	madefromscratch 2007-01-05 06:38 pm UTC (link)
	who? (Reply to this) (Parent)(Thread)

	gypsykat 2007-01-05 06:54 pm UTC (link)
	I honestly have never experienced this freeze. Not now, not when I moved here. (Reply to this) (Thread)

	gomezticator 2007-01-05 10:16 pm UTC (link)
	And that's all you have to say, which doesn't really say anything. What do you do? Did you have friends/family here? Are you one who likes to go out a lot, or are your social expectations lower? Dismissive statement with no elaboration is inself dismissable. (Reply to this) (Parent)(Thread)

	iheartretards 2007-01-05 07:44 pm UTC (link)
	oh and ALL of my friends are imports. (Reply to this) (Parent)

	yummykit 2007-01-05 08:34 pm UTC (link)
	never experienced this when i moved to seattle....i'm not incredibly outgoing and even i managed to make some great friends! amazing. (Reply to this)

	devilsfood 2007-01-05 09:32 pm UTC (link)
	I've noticed this happening (and I'm a native), but I'm pretty sure I'm socially retarded anyway. (Reply to this)

	mikeatron 2007-01-05 09:49 pm UTC (link)
	The horse is dead, but the stick will never break. (Reply to this) (Thread)

	xaotica 2007-01-06 03:25 am UTC (link)
	makes me wonder if the people into this topic are from enumclaw (Reply to this) (Parent)(Thread)

	spinininseattle 2007-01-06 12:08 am UTC (link)
	What? Nonsense. I've lived here 6 months and am having no problems with the natives. (Reply to this)

	dinkuss 2007-01-06 01:26 am UTC (link)
	The fake PC niceness is actually more annoying than the freeze. I've lived here almost six months and find it difficult to get anyone to actually proceed at a four way stop. And people here knit alone. That's just weird. (Reply to this) (Thread)

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	sonoazure 2007-01-06 01:49 am UTC (link)
	"And people here knit alone. That's just weird." Best quote ever, for the day! (Reply to this) (Parent)(Thread)

	sad_mouse 2007-01-06 07:04 am UTC (link)
	I moved to Seattle from Australia nine months ago. I really like people from Seattle, they are genuine, sincere and friendly. However I am sure that you will find enough people with bad experiences to perpetuate the false myth. (Reply to this)

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