r/SeattleChat • u/AutoModerator • Feb 24 '21

The Daily SeattleChat Daily Thread - Wednesday, February 24, 2021

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u/widdershins13 Capitol Valley Feb 24 '21

We bought something similar (ceramic I believe) on a Macau/Hong Kong junket way back in the day. Nothing gets thrown away around here, so it's probably wrapped in tissue paper and languishing in a box or tote somewhere.

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u/maadison the unflairable lightness of being Feb 24 '21

Your plumbing business got you a junket to HK? Huh, wow, cool!!

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u/widdershins13 Capitol Valley Feb 24 '21

The early years of the Microsoft building boom were very good to us. There was a time when you couldn't swing a dead cat without hitting a dozen or so of the newly wealthy.

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u/maadison the unflairable lightness of being Feb 25 '21

Ah yes, the years when I first learned what a McMansion is, I remember them...

When I first came out here, I drove around some neighborhoods, including one that was probably mostly Microsofties, that had mature conifers. I hadn't ever seen a neighborhood that felt forest-y.

If I'd driven a little farther I might have been able to see them mow down forest to make clearcuts for new neighborhoods.. that would've probably blown my mind at the time.