The Central District is getting nicer every day and Madrona is pretty swanky already, so the fact someone got shot near there just tells me you can’t get away from crime no matter where you live. I am not worried about that kind of stuff.

I think my end of Seattle is far worse, but I’m still not worried. I mean, there is a corner about a mile down the road that is known as the worst (best?) drug corner in Seattle. But I think after living in California where there were drive by shootings all the time and a friend of mine’s mom was found burnt to death in a sandbox at a playground, made me learn that people are sought out by people who know them. I was never given any trouble when I drove through those same areas because I wasn’t part of the gang or family they had war with. I was just a no-face white girl.

I love Seattle. I love what South Seattle is slowly becoming. My bigger fear is that it might become too white and too yuppie and we won’t have any diversity left. I am part of the gentrification and I hate it, but I’m hoping to connect with the community already there and help them to make it thrive.

Don’t worry too much about crime and safety. I would rather be around shootings over drugs in south seattle than trailer trash back woods deliverance types in North Seattle that WILL look at me like a no-face white girl they want to rape and hide in their basement.