Forbes magazine thinks Seattle is THE most overpriced/overrated city in America. Unfortunately, that is about to become clear.
To rent downtown, one would be left with the belief that our economy is on the up and up, but reality tells us something different -- this place is flat-out expensive!
Food prices are high, gas prices are bogus and locally inflated, you name it, local merchants and businesses are charging at least 15% too much and now the city itself has joined in on this fleecing orgy -- new automated parking meters are taking over.
Oh yeah, and they cost a lot more than the older models they're replacing.
"While parkers adjust to the new system, the city's parking-enforcement officers are practicing leniency," said Seattle Police Lt. William Edwards.
"BS," I say. My street got these new demon-thiefs just this week and I already got a $35 ticket today. Apparently, a dollar only gets you 42 minutes on these thrifty new models.
Why not just replace parking meters with slot machines? Maybe you get a ticket, maybe you cash in, because as it stands now I don't think most know
what a rip job they're getting when they try to buy a couple minutes of parking downtown.
A big thanks to the city for sneaking these "lenient" and "gradual" increases to our cost of living under the public radar with minimal notice.
Seattle needs to get cheaper if it wants to get better -- that's my two cents, which won't buy you any time on a parking meter downtown.
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