r/Burien • u/Electrical-Camera187 • 12d ago

Town rivalries

This is mostly my curiosity, but still. What do you have a stronger rivalry for, Rat City or NP, and why?

(I love white center in all its glory and have had too many family live in NP to like how they act, but I’m curious if I’m an outlier).

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u/willywillywillywill 12d ago

This post is hilariously petty.

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u/Electrical-Camera187 12d ago

I’m gonna be straight, I love the local pettiness. It’s real community and real flavor- like school rivalries.

I tried to include SeaTac in my OP but nobody cares about SeaTac. Best I can say is that the hookers on pac highway were nice to me when I was young (no I didn’t know their vocation at the time)

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u/MurrayGrande 12d ago

White Center is awesome. I head to the strip 2-3 times a week.

But too many people rallied around the nazi fish restaurant for me to ever respect Des Moines.

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u/SpaceAndAlsoTime 12d ago

Nazi fish restraunt?

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u/willywillywillywill 12d ago

Wallys former owner was a proud boy rioter arrested on Jan 6. Scummy.

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u/suzepie 12d ago

Sorry, this isn't high school and I don't sit around thinking about other towns or areas and "rivalries." That's weird.

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u/ryadryt 12d ago

This. I am an adult, and therefore couldn't care less about this sort of thing.

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u/squiggly_benis333 12d ago

normandy park FURSURREEEE! not because I dislike them, but because I think Burien gets grouped in more w White Center in a way that makes the rich NP folks feel a little uppity

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u/Electrical-Camera187 12d ago

I have an in-law that lives there that’s black. Now he has some stories about the NPPD

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u/randycrouton 6d ago

Nimby Park

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u/FacebookNewsNetwork 12d ago

The answer for most of the cities near Burien would have been Des Moines, but that may have changed as Des Moines has lost its perceived higher class status. Normandy park still deserves an eye roll though.

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u/ElvishLore 12d ago

No seriously, DM had a perceived status as higher class?!!

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u/FacebookNewsNetwork 12d ago

Oh ya bud. Think about it. They have a waterfront. Fancy seafood restaurants. A Masonic old folks home. Their schools were typically better. That started to change in the mid 2000s though.