I moved out of seattle just 4 years ago and pioneer square was very nice. it even seemed like it was gentrifying. lots of nice little shops and restaurants. Is it really that bad now?

what's happening to the violent crime rate? the area i used to live in wasn't in pioneer square and it was close to the "ghetto". but i wouldn't have considered it unsafe. now i've seen multiple shootings near where i used to live in the news recently.

3rd and pine, i used to work out there. it always was kind of seedy at night and stuff. but omg i looked at street pictures during covid, and businesses were boarded up, like wooden boards on half the street holy shit. many looked shut down permanently like even the signs were gone. and there were no normal people in the picture, just tons of trash and strung out drug addicts. it seriously looked like an apocalypse movie. like you'd have thought it was a movie picture, for real.

i dont live there anymore so i really dont know. is seattle really taking as much of a nosedive the news makes it out to be?