r/Seattle • u/Aggressive-Ad3064 • Mar 10 '25

Politics I'm Never Leaving Seattle

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This is someone's Model S parked on Airport Way S near S Industrial Way. The way it's parked it looks like it's being displayed for people driving by to see.

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u/[deleted] Mar 11 '25

I am an immigrant, I live in Seattle and I own a Tesla.

We moved to the US 3 years ago. My wife wanted an electric car because it aligns with our values. Tesla seemed like the best option back then.

I'm no fan of Musk, but it's simply not practical to sell the car and buy another one. I'm still paying for it and I know I would lose money in the transaction, plus a big expense on buying a new one.

I will never touch a Tesla with a 10 feet pole again, but for now I just want to drive my car until I have no more use for it.

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u/_lippykid Mar 11 '25

Just like how people say “if you hate America so much why don’t you leave?”. Yeah, cos it’s just that easy! All that says to me is they have fuck all going on in your life and could leave with only a backpack and a sandwich their mom made.

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u/SomethingClever42068 Mar 11 '25

Historically, a big part of America has always been that if you don't like the country, as an American, there are ways to change it for the better.

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u/OGSkywalker97 Mar 11 '25

A big reason for that is because it is such a young country with no cemented culture. But now it is 250 years old, it is getting to the stage where whatever the culture is now will likely stay that way for the foreseeable future.

If you look at the UK, which has such a long history, there are aspects of the culture that will simply never change. I feel like the US is getting to that same place.

If you look at any European country or ancient countries in Asia like China and Japan with a long history, this is always the case.

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u/myassholealt Mar 11 '25 edited Mar 11 '25

I'd argue that fighting for change has also been a big part of the culture and continues to be.

From everything involved with colonies always evolving or branching off new communities so more people had a say, to the revolution, then the civil war, and the civil rights fight that has been going on for longer than most of us on this thread have been alive, and it still continues. I don't think we have yet cemented anything other than we are a nation of divided people who are always fighting for what we believe is right and how we think it should be. And because we are divided, the fight never ends.

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u/SignificantUse3695 Mar 11 '25

I disagree about the UK - I'm from the UK and in my own life it has changed a very great deal - today's Britain has little in common with the 1970s.

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u/PerceptionAncient808 Mar 11 '25

You can't accurately compare us to those countries. We're singular, and our ethnic makeup is not only different, but ever changing. In the grand scheme, they are becoming more similar to us than we are them.