Glad you got your rig back.
I moved here two years ago and just in this short time I have seen so much degradation of the city.
Come hang out with me for 60+ a week on Capitol Hill. My work mate lives in West Seattle most of his life, cool place and you have a freekin record store with a restaurant and a bathroom in it, kind of looks like my house! LOL
http://easystreetonline.com/
Anyhow when you add 65k plus people a year to the population of a small city like that $hits bound to go south and the politics suck dank a$$ donkey balls.
But Seattle has some amazing record stores, three less than a one minute walk from the office.