Liberal Place:Seattle, WA

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Seattle is a great, liberal, compassionate, caring city, mainly due to the leadership of our wonderful mayor, Norm Rice, who cares about people and their problems. This is a city that truly cares about the homeless, at-risk kids, anyone who is down and out, or has hit hard times. Unfortunately, Mayor Rice has said he will not serve another term, so the citizens of Seattle are going to have to work to be sure his legacy is carried on.

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Seattle is definitely one of the more liberal big cities in the country, which is not only a function of its generally well-educated, literate population, but also of its history as a center of labor activism and unrest. Although I would rather live in a liberal city such as Seattle, I would have to say that it is a little like living in a bubble in that one is often unaware of the significant trends that are developing elsewhere in the political mainstream. Also, the two main newspapers here, although they can be counted on to take somewhat liberal editorial stances, are completely unspectacular in their news content.

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Seattle IS a liberal city but the second you leave the city borders it's redneck central. Pickup trucks galore, gun stores aplenty and some of the dullest architecture you'll find in this here United States. The working wages are decidingly unliberal and not much represented by unions. If you're not an established technocrat you better know how to make espresso cuz the job situation is limited even with a healthy economy. The wages for a regular job is low compared to my home state of New Jersey.

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Seattle is easily the best city in the United States. It is a haven for liberals, with democrats for a governor and mayor. There are gay bars without vandalism, and Seattle is one of the four cities with laws protecting transgenders. The area around is fabulous, and is definitely not "redneck central". True, there are conservative communities, as in all areas, but for the most part, it is a liberal metropolitan area. Beyond political standing, it is a great city with low pollution, low crime, and many major companies located in or nearby which have defined out culter, e.g. Starbucks, Microsoft and Boeing.

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the percentage of seattle's workforce that is reresented by labor unions is one of the highest in the u.s. seattle's gay community is very visble with an out lesbian on the city council and an out gay man in the state legislture.

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If liberalism is the politics of self-congratulations then, yes, Seattle is a liberal city. No meeting is ever held where everyone present does not tell everyone else how sensitive, how well-informed, and how decent they are... and there are endless political meetings in Seattle.

Since this fulsome evalution confirms that s/he is the best possible person living in the best possible city, nothing ever changes. Serious educational reform (charter schools) and serious election reform (proportional representation) are just two of the recent ideas shot down by the "progressives" of Seattle.

Not that they are stingy: hundreds of millions in tax money will be spent here over the next couple of years so that millionaire ball-players can play in the finest sports palaces before their billionaire owners. Liberals here so love welfare, they even give it to the rich.

Oh, well.