I don&#x27;t know if I ever really saw Seattle&#x27;s &#x27;soul&#x27; when I lived there for 3 years.  Granted, I lived in the North part.  I saw a lot of white and asian people (mainly dudes) looking at their feet or looking at their phones.  Seattle is one of the most difficult places to strike up a conversation with strangers or get people to actually want to hang out (worse if they are locals).<p>South Seattle, on the other hand, truly has &#x27;soul&#x27;.  Rainier Beach at one point was the most diverse zip code in the entire USA.  You got to a coffee shop there and you&#x27;ll see groups of east africans, latinos, all mixes of asian, white, african american, you name it.  It&#x27;s got gritty parts, nicer parts, and all sorts of interesting restaurants and grocery stores.  The Amazon people don&#x27;t tend to live or congregate down there as much.<p>As far as cap hill, fremont, wallingford, u-dist, you can keep it.  A bunch of bland ass wealthy white&#x2F;asian dudes looking at the ground.<p>I moved to SF and lived there for a couple years.  The gentrification and rent is bad but the diversity and mix of people across most of the neighborhoods still beats north seattle hands down.  It was a way more eclectic interesting experience than anything my Seattle time could offer.