Getaways
The New Seattle
By Trevor Boddy published Apr 1, 2007
The amazing thing about Seattle and Vancouver is how different we are, considering our near-identical climates and bioregions, similar hybrid ethnicities and parallel histories. Look at a satellite photo of Puget Sound to Howe Sound, and it’s clear that there is now a border-straddling megalopolis from Lions Bay to Tacoma: seven million people in one virtual city, with the insufferable anomaly of an international border down the middle. With two heads but one conjoined body, Vancouver and Seattle are Siamese twins. Yet we are fused not at the head, but at the back—forever looking in different directions. We may share the same flesh, but our outlooks are, in many ways, starkly different.
Led by the colossus of Microsoft, Seattle has become one of the most important corporate hubs in the world—with Boeing, Amazon, Starbucks, Real Networks and countless other companies founded there, and now spreading their brands around the world. (Cont'd...)
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