Seattle

I just moved to Seattle a little over a year ago and I still don't really have any friends. Just my sister's people - Jesse's family, et. al.
I have some acquaintances here and there, but I need some real friends. I guess it's really not that easy once you're in your twenties. But it certainly shouldn't be impossible. I think people here in Seattle are somewhat standoffish. I mean, they are polite, but there's a certain reticence, Victorian if you will.
I'm not just looking to meet girls, although I wouldn't mind...but just friends in general. That's important especially when you no longer have your parents around. I used to live with my mom outside D.C. in Maryland. We were a pair, a bit co-dependent, perhaps. So I'm on my own now in the big city. Bright lights, big city.
I'm thankful I'm not in an east coast city or in L.A. Seattle is an extremely livable place as far as large U.S. cities go. It's safe, and it has multiple little self-contained neighborhoods that give it a sort of small-town feel. It's much more spread out than the east coast.
There is a huge college presence - the U of W and others. Many students and graduates wandering around, so that's definitely a plus.
As for the job market, I think it's competitive - I'd say more so than D.C. and Maryland. There're more young people just starting out, I believe. The city itself does have the highest, or one of the highest rates of college grads of any population in the U.S.
So much for my detached analysis of my living situation...I'm being absurdly dispassionate, so I'll stop.
Maybe that's part of my problem - I'm too scientific about everything. Stop analyzing and start living, I hear the catchphrase...I get it from my dad, I think. He was scientific about life to the point of dysfunction: he stopped caring about his family (if he ever did).
So I'll try to be aware of that and not make the same mistakes.
Getting tired...
That's about it for me tonight. Maybe I'll come back when I've thought of something else to write.