Between 1984 and 1999 Seattle's NBC affiliate, KING-TV, ran a locally-produced sketch comedy show known as Almost Live! Bill Nye left Boeing to begin his performance career on the show, and it remains one of the best sources of cultural satire on the region. The Wikipedia article has more information, but the show's guide to living in Seattle is a reasonable introduction:
Some thing have changed since the early-'90s, but much remains the same. Though Ballard has become trendy and hipster-ish and Renton is less of a company town for Boeing these days, Capitol Hill remains aggressivly nonconformist and nothing bad happens in Mercer Island even today. My first experience living near Puget Sound was in Kent, and I think Almost Live! is excessively harsh on south King County. Blue collar or not, at least they have a decent mall now.
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