re: Would you live in Seattle suburbs?

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I know, sounds outrageous, right? I can buy a bushel of Apalachicola or Chesapeake oysters this morning that were harvested yesterday for what 3 dozen would cost in an Oyster Bar in Richland Washington (3 hours east of Seattle). I promise you I have eaten MANY $80 a dozen oysters in the PNW. It is the market price in season in oyster bars. The difference in prices at markets is similar. They are very good oysters, vast difference in flavor depending on where they come from, but the harvesting restrictions coupled with the relative scarcity compared to east coast oysters make the price incredible high. They are tastier but that could be psychosomatic based on the price...

And by the way...DO NOT contemplate wading out to an oyster reef and plucking a few and eating them. The locals will have a CONNIPTION fit and the man will act as if you have sodomized his granny. No telling what kind of lynching would follow if anyone actually did it....

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Sorry, oysters don't cost 7-10/each anywhere in Washington. The fanciest of fancy restaurants is charging you $3 tops - and that's a fancy restaurant thing - not a Washington thing.