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So. >> anthony: in a lot of ways, this was always a company town. you know, boeing, before boeing it was a logging town. the new company is tech and it is flooding money into the place. i look out my hotel room window and i mean there are cranes as far as the eye can see. >> dustin: you realize, like, okay, all those cranes out there are for high-rise condos, theyre for a certain type of person. theyre envisioning a certain type of future for the city and its tech people. >> anthony: or, you kno...

I mean you got the ocean there, youve got cattle country and orchard country just over the mountains. >> anthony: yeah. >> knute: to say why the things is changed in seattle is theres not just the pike place market but every neighborhood has a market that -- >> anthony: has a green market. >> knute: yeah, and so those entrepreneurs have a place to sell, they can go to all the markets or just some of them. but its really fantastic. >> anthony: so, everybody born and bred in seattle? >> knute: i w...

And yet, youve created this sort of iconic hate anthem. can you tell the tech people from the non-tech people? >> dustin: yeah, they have the badges. >> astra: neutral-colored clothing. theyre kind of easy to spot. they have a walk. >> anthony: they have a walk? >> astra: yeah. theyre just all the same. theres nothing that really stands out about them. theyre so dull. ♪ youve got to feel that rhythm ♪ ♪ that algorithim >> astra: you know, dating apps are really big here. i have a few girlf...

Good ingredients. >> yeah. you have the ocean there. you have cattle country and orchard country over the mountains. theres not just the market but every neighborhood. those entrepreneurs have place to sell. they can go to the markets or some of them. its really fantastic. >> everybody born and bred in seattle? >> i was. >> born here? >> yes. >> bellingham. >> sure. serial killer capital of the world. ted bundy and the green river killer were patrons in that bar. >> the hillside strangler. >> th...

Jack whisner is a transit planner for king county metro. and knute berger is a journalist and columnist for "seattle weekly." old school seattle, all. taylor shellfish oyster bar in pioneer square is old school too. the taylor family has been farming more than 12,000 acres of tidelands in the puget sound, willapa bay and the hood canal for over five generations, since 1890. with three restaurants in town, they know what theyre doing. >> anthony: are you eating this whole? head, tail, bones and a...

Guitarist jeff felder. they serve out generous drinks and spanish influence tapas. >> you grew up around two hours outside of seattle? >> yeah in eastern washington which was like country side, ranching, farming community. >> you dont live here anymore. you live in l.a. now? >> yeah. >> how long since you left? >> its been 20 years. i come back here couple times a year, play shows. i still have family in the city. i think of it as home still. i always will. its just, its a home i dont live in an...

Salad. im hearing from a lot of people bemoaning the loss of the old seattle. >> right. >> this invasion of outsiders. >> the community is going through a lot of growing pains. theres an element of the city thats rebelling against the progress especially as we talk about a company like amazon that controls massive amounts of the downtown real estate footprint now. thats ha scarwhat scares a lot people here including myself. i see how the trends of history change especially in technology that one...

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[ laughter ] ♪ on a marble street a procession spills in ♪ ♪ at the white sea wall waves crash and crash again ♪ ♪ darkness shining then disappearing ♪ ♪ day follows night night follows day ♪ ♪ goodbye goodbye to beauty ♪ ♪ goodbye goodbye to beauty ♪ >> anthony: are you at all sentimental about how seattle used to be?

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