According to
Robyn Hitchcock's maddeningly chirpy song '
Viva Seattle' it has "the best
computers and
coffee and
smack."
Once upon a time it had America's highest concentration of '
seamstresses' and a serious problem with
back-firing lavatories because of the messed up water pressure system in the city.
It also has some really nifty
underground streets that predate the building of the proper mud-free
pavements and other fancy modernisations at the end of the nineteenth century.