many moons ago, when my wife and I were student and before our kids were born, we had a phase and we will visit seattle often. Mostly just for the weekends. This was early 2000s. It was a beutiful downtown, and the lake area. Probably still is.

But the last time we are there was during Covid, just after the Black Life Matters movement; and downtown was very difficult for me to watch. It was heavily boarded up and lost its charm completely. We were so saddened that I haven't visited since then.

Hope it is completely recovered now.