Letting mobs run your cities has consequences. 

” … The unrest that has taken place in the city of Seattle … there is really is not a downtown business community today,” Smead Capital Management, President and CEO Cole Smead told KTAR News 92.3 FM.

Smead said that although taxes in Seattle are lower, candidate recruitment is harder and the cost of living within the city is more expensive than Phoenix.

“My biggest concern for Seattle was what the business community is going to come back to, and what kind of businesses are going to come back for customers.”

He found that metro Phoenix offers a better quality of life.

“My colleagues can pick the socio-economic rung of life that they want … live their lives, build their households and have a family if they’d like,” Smead said.

At this point, what doesn’t? Not even Frasier is coming back to Seattle.

The combination of…

1. Unaffordable housing

2. No functioning police force

3. Out of control crime and homelessness

are not a selling point for anyone who isn’t a twenty-something lefty with a lot of money and nothing to do with his or her time.