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I grew up in a no-name city I'm the Northeast and I can say exactly the same thing when I visit- Wow, this place is different!

Because things just change.

We didn't even have a big company come in or anything, it just changed over time one thing leading to another.

Same thing has happened to Venice, Santa Monica, SF, Bay Area, etc.. the world is constantly changing. The only constant is change.

If you talk to a native in their 80s, the Seattle they grew up in was very different from the Seattle of the 60s-70s, which was very different from the Seattle of the 80s-90s, which is very different from, you get the idea.

Get one of those coffee table books of historic Seattle pictures, and you can see the overwhelming constant change.

Was Seattle stable when you were growing up? I hear people talk about how much Seattle has changed but that seems like the norm.

Isn't that true of everywhere?