I saw this picture http://www.flickr.com/photos/swift/2453607/ and it looks like a extremely beautiful place almost one of the best i've seen..is it?
2007-07-06 08:44:38 · 8 answers · asked by Anonymous in Travel ➔ United States ➔ Seattle
Yes, Seattle is definitely one of the most beautiful cities in the world. It has the full package. A city(for starters!), the ocean and the mountains! What more could you ask for? Mt. Rainier is among the finest sights I have ever seen. Seattle is also a very walkable city making the beauty stand out more. It is a very livable city. The Cascade Mountains can be viewed from almost any where on a clear day. The people in Seattle are also awesome! Layed back and relaxed. Perfect in my opinion. Definitely an amazing city!
2007-07-07 18:19:34 · answer #1 · answered by SeaGirl 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Over the last two decades, I have lived in a number of different cities on all sides of the US, including Seattle and I must say that of all the US cities that I have ever lived, Seattle is by far my favorite, and the one I miss the most. If ever I have the chance to move there again I would not even think twice. Unfortunately, money and job determine my location.
Every city has its good and bad qualities, but even when I was driving through a poor area, the view still seemed so beautiful as compared to the poor areas of Chicago, Houston, New York, etc. I would definitely say that it is one of the most, if not the most, beautiful city in the US.
2007-07-07 06:11:50 · answer #2 · answered by Sadiqua 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Seattle has nice new buildings, well enough, but the real beauty is its setting and surroundings. Elliot Bay and Puget Sound to the west, then the Olympic Mountains... Lake Washington to the east, then the foothills and the Cascade Mountains... views of 14000 foot tall Mt Rainier from almost anywhere, and peekaboo views of Mt Baker. Ferries, farms, forest, lakes, the Sound, mountains on both sides.... Plus in the summer, during the dry season (now to about September) unlike Europe or the East Coast it's really dry air so the visibility is often over 50 or 100 miles- Mt Rainier is 65 miles from Seattle and seems like it is hovering just over the next hill. At our northern latitude (47 degrees, the northernmost major city in the lower 48), the air and light have a special quality that has to be seen to be believed.
The nearest competitors are Vancouver BC and Juneau Alaska. Juneau is a small town but the scenery and nature are astounding. Vancouver is about Seattle's size but similar in many of the ways discussed above.
Come visit!
2007-07-06 23:46:43 · answer #3 · answered by DT3238 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
No. I mean it has it's qualities, but I would not personally say it was one of the most beautiful cities "in the world"
For staters, that photo is just a sparkling night skyline of a city-if you remove the space needle from the photo, it could be a photo of many many cities.
And a bunch of lit buildings is NOT my idea of beauty at all.
If anything, it is more the outskirts of Seattle that have beauty, like Mount Rainier, the Cascades, Rainforest etc.
But back to your using the phrase "in the world"-sounds like you haven't travelled much as there are far more exquisitely beautiful places in the world. I have lived in Seattle and in many other parts of the world and I never think of Seattle as beautiful when compared to most other places I have been.
The Northwest definitely has beauty, but as a city itself, it's a major metropolitan U.S. city-how beautiful can it be.
2007-07-06 17:01:08 · answer #4 · answered by ontheroadagainwithoutyou 6 · 0⤊ 1⤋
I've been to many parts of the world and have even lived in a few. I found lots of beautiful places and I'd say Seattle is up there with the best of them. Day or night, it's really beautiful.
2007-07-06 19:13:47 · answer #5 · answered by Steve W 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Pretty picture, but all towns look pretty with all the lights.
I prefer old European towns, where the houses next to each other might differ 500 years in building date, where the people looking out of the window at the top floor can talk with people on the street.
Villages are even better, I have seen a few in England and France that must be the most pretty in the world, different from each other, but so nice to see.
2007-07-06 16:10:40 · answer #6 · answered by Willeke 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Yes.
2007-07-08 04:54:19 · answer #7 · answered by joeluw1977 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
well maybe in that picture. when its rainy its not that pretty,,, but thats seattle.. haha. but seattle does have its good points
2007-07-07 01:51:52 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋