Actually, Seattle’s Not Such a Bad City

splicetoday.com — My pre-conceived notions about Seattle were partly dashed, mostly because I was astounded at how dirt-cheap the city is. For example, I stayed at a new Four Seasons, and my large and quite spiffy room cost a third of the price at the hotel’s Manhattan, Boston and D.C. locations. At the airport, on the way home, I bought an iced double espresso and bottle of water at Starbucks; later, at O’Hare I made the same exact purchase and it was three bucks more. The cabbies in Seattle were uniformly cheerful—if a bit too chatty—and actually appeared to revel in their role of ambassadors to the c Jan 30, 2012 View in Crawl 4