Occasionally, I miss
Seattle. I lived there on and off for about seven years. I don’t get to the city much anymore, but after a recent trip there, I felt nostalgic. So, imagine my happy surprise when I got an offer for
Seattle Magazine for free. I thought what a nice way to keep in touch with the pulse, issues, and happenings of the city, so I signed up.
However, what I thought Seattle Magazine was supposed be, wasn’t correct. I got my first issue recently and it was a slick, glossy, carefully produced lifestyle magazine complete with a massive amount of Seattle restaurants reviews, wine articles, fashion, home entertaining, shopping, and a small amount of events. Some of the magazine content was terrific (the restaurant reviews) and some of it, well, wasn’t too interesting to me. But the magazine’s content is not what stood out to me. Literally every other expensive FULL PAGE ad was about expensive cosmetic dentistry and all kinds of plastic surgery.
What?
Now, I know that I haven’t been connected much with the city, but Seattle never struck me as fake teeth and surgically altered perfect body and face kind of town. What am I missing here? I did think that perhaps the frequent image ads were meant to appeal to the affluent Seattle suburbs; however, even so, I still didn’t think this area was particularly rampant with nips and tucks. Am I wrong?
Of course, I don’t see Grit City swimming in a sea of Botox.
Right?
