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Seattle's Central District (CD), traditionally an African American neighborhood, has
been augmented by an influx of Ethiopian immigrants, creating what some have
dubbed Little Ethiopia. Madison Park and Madrona are upscale lakeside communities
with popular beaches.
This neighborhood of young, studious out-of-towners places the beautiful, leafy
University of Washington campus next to the shabbier 'Ave,' an eclectic strip of cheap
boutiques, dive bars and ethnic restaurants.
Fremont pitches young hipsters among old hippies in an unlikely urban alliance, and
vies with Capitol Hill as Seattle's most irreverent neighborhood, with junk shops, urban
sculpture and a healthy sense of its own ludicrousness. Family-friendly Green Lake is a
more affluent suburb favored by fitness devotees.
A former seafaring community, with Scandinavian heritage, Ballard still feels like a
small town engulfed by a bigger city. Gritty, no-nonsense and uncommercial, it's
slowly being condo-ized but remains a good place to down a microbrew or see a band.
Acquiring a veneer of trendiness has worked wonders for Georgetown's street cred - its
ice-cool mix of bars, galleries and post-industrial architecture tends to be called 'bo-
hemian chic.' West Seattle is the city's Coney Island: good for beaches and cheap shop-
ping.
