See that also tracks with why we hate Californians…

Cap Hill used to be affordable, and considerably more weird.

Yes, its weird, it used to be more weird.

Like uh, I remember one time about 15 years ago now (rent in Cap Hill was roughly 1/3 of what it is now), I saw an actual freak on a leash, like just full BDSM gear dude walking another BDSM dude down the street.

They were going to QFC, to get groceries, just normal stuff, most people were like ‘huh. sure. neat.’ and just went on as normal.

Then the California hipster trust fund babies moved in, raised the rent, the Seattle natives moved out, now Cap Hill is basically a tourist area, masquerading as ‘the most coolest Seattleist part of the city’.

Like, I’m in the midwest now in large part because of the real estate bubble caused by rich transplant gentrifiers.

But yeah, anyway, I did interperet the uh, full blast accent drop as a sign he was uh… comfortable talking to me, so i was genuienly happy, but also very confused, hahah!