What Is The History Of Bellevue, Wa?

1. Coal mines, lumber, swamps. scandinavians.
2. War era manufacturing on the lakes.
3. Bridge = cheap land, ‘the sticks’. suburbia. very white.
4. Tech boom (Microsoft), ‘ bizarre economy’, extreme wealth.
5. Best city to live in in america because no viable underclass, highly educated upper middle class. too expensive for lower classes to move in. no underclass means of employment.
6. Microsoft people are extremely dysfunctional because of the corporate culture and it leads to very strange social order that permeates the region.

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