Seattle named one of Condé Nast Traveler’s “23 Best Places to go in 2023”

Usually I like lists, however I’ve points with Condé Nast Traveler’s “23 Finest Locations to go in 2023.”

Driving the information: This explicit tabulation, launched final month, calls Seattle a “chameleonic metropolis the place change is a byword.”

• It tells guests town has modified loads because the pandemic and urges of us to take a look at the mixed-use developments Midtown Sq. and Jackson Flats close to the Central District, saying there’s been significant pushback “towards years of creeping gentrification.”
• It lists a number of minority-owned companies which are legit value a glance.
• The listing goes on to inform folks concerning the “Amazon-led modernization of the high-rise Denny Triangle district, and the gradual transition to a extra salubrious waterfront following the elimination of the noisy Alaska (sic) Means Viaduct.”

Actuality verify: Seattle is already No. 1 or 2 for home journey locations and one of the vital moved-to cities within the U.S. No person wants a listing to know that.

• Additionally, is Seattle actually a chameleonic metropolis? What does that even imply?
• Thirdly, what’s attention-grabbing to see within the modernized Denny Triangle? Principally, it appears like loads of new, blocky buildings.
• About that “salubrious” waterfront state of affairs. The makeover is taking a very long time, and there is nonetheless loads of building to wend round. It isn’t a spotlight, IMHO, particularly for in another way abled folks. Additionally, I needed to lookup salubrious as a result of I initially thought it had one thing to do with with the ability to drink your manner by way of the triangle and all the way down to the water.
• However no, it means “wholesome.” I feel loads of Belltown residents would argue that with problems with homelessness and crime seemingly on the rise that may not be the phrase they’d selected.

The large image: Folks will preserve visiting Seattle, falling in love and shifting right here it doesn’t matter what any listing says and apparently regardless of the skyrocketing value of residing.

One good factor: Small and petty as this can be, I did get somewhat thrill from noting that neither San Francisco nor Portland had been included.