What I Won’t Miss, What I’ll Miss in Seattle
(In the spirit of Nora Ephron's What I'll Miss, What I Won't Miss)
What I Won’t Miss
Traffic
Slow buses that take an hour to go five miles
I5
Biking across 15th
The narrow lanes of the Aurora Bridge
The homeless camp surrounding the Ballard library
The homeless crisis
$11 happy hour cocktails
Mountains
Dating techies
Blue badges
Gray days that never seem to wake up
Never being able to afford a house in the city I live in
Having to bike up hills for most places I go
Having to drive over an hour to cross country ski
No cute towns within an hour drive
Long, expensive rides to the airport
Feeling like a weirdo because I don’t want to drive for hours to go hiking
What I’ll Miss
Olympic Sculpture Park
Biking through the trainyards and along the water to the Olympic Sculpture Park
Ellenos passion fruit yogurt
Essential Baking rosemary bread
Oysters
Watching seals on my commute through the Locks
The curve in the path under the train bridge on my run to Golden Gardens
Golden Gardens
The Seattle Public Library
The Little Free Libraries of Ballard
Listening to KEXP’s John in the Morning on the radio
Sunset Hill Park
Discovery Park
The yellow houses at Discovery Park
Biking up to my friends in Bitter Lake
Whidbey Island
Elliott Bay Book Co
Diner breakfasts at the old Crocodile
Shows at the new Crocodile
The Tin Hat
Coffeeholic
My balcony
Foster Island
Vaccine mandates
Liberals everywhere
The Seattle Times
Waking up to the smell of the ocean and the sound of seagulls in the summer
Walks up my neighborhood hills to look out at the water
Friends who sail and kayak
Running the top of Queen Anne
Biking down Sunset Hill
Renee Erickson restaurants
Fresh hops
SIFF
Classes at SIFF
Running on damp spring mornings under cherry blossoms
My friends