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re: Anyone here live in Seattle?
Posted on 9/30/24 at 3:34 pm to Toss_Dive
Posted on 9/30/24 at 3:34 pm to Toss_Dive
I lived in Seattle thru the dotcom boom and bust. It was an amazing place to live while I was in my 20s. After I moved back home (Georgia), for years I wanted nothing more than to move back. I'd go back and visit every year, and did up until life got too busy with kids.
The summers are out of this world. Pleasant temps for the most part, until late summer. If you like hiking and camping, you have countless options. If you like boating, you'll love it. They have a beach, but it's pretty chilly all but a couple weeks of the summer, but it's still there. You have light until 10pm!
There are no bug issues. Literally, we had no window screens. We didn't have AC either, and you could just open windows and let the breeze thru, and not worry about bugs.
Fall is a mix. I love the crisp air, and it's kinda nice having football on ALL DAY.
When winter comes, you can go skiing/snowboarding every weekend without having to stay at a hotel.
Yes, it is pretty dreary from October to March, but I didn't mind it. Bank your vacation time to head somewhere sunny if you need it. I loved to explore, and the state is crazy diverse with mountains, desert, rainforests, etc. You can explore tidal pools one weekend and climb a mountain the next.
Lots of cool museums and things to see and do. You'll have friends and family that want to visit.
There is something called the Seattle freeze, and a lot of people struggle to make friends and that causes quite a bit of depression. For me, I had plenty of friends at work and made myself participate in stuff. You can also find an alumni group to hang out with during football season.
I was there last week. I visited with friends, enjoyed seeing places I used to hang out at, and the cool temps were a nice break. The scenery is still gorgeous.
That being said, Seattle is dirty. There are sections that are boarded up. It smells like pee at every corner. The homeless situation seems to be somewhat improved, but be prepared to experience it. If you don't get screamed at by some crazy hobo, then you are missing out. It's also expensive. Most of my friends bailed on Seattle and now live in the burbs or further out.
The summers are out of this world. Pleasant temps for the most part, until late summer. If you like hiking and camping, you have countless options. If you like boating, you'll love it. They have a beach, but it's pretty chilly all but a couple weeks of the summer, but it's still there. You have light until 10pm!
There are no bug issues. Literally, we had no window screens. We didn't have AC either, and you could just open windows and let the breeze thru, and not worry about bugs.
Fall is a mix. I love the crisp air, and it's kinda nice having football on ALL DAY.
When winter comes, you can go skiing/snowboarding every weekend without having to stay at a hotel.
Yes, it is pretty dreary from October to March, but I didn't mind it. Bank your vacation time to head somewhere sunny if you need it. I loved to explore, and the state is crazy diverse with mountains, desert, rainforests, etc. You can explore tidal pools one weekend and climb a mountain the next.
Lots of cool museums and things to see and do. You'll have friends and family that want to visit.
There is something called the Seattle freeze, and a lot of people struggle to make friends and that causes quite a bit of depression. For me, I had plenty of friends at work and made myself participate in stuff. You can also find an alumni group to hang out with during football season.
I was there last week. I visited with friends, enjoyed seeing places I used to hang out at, and the cool temps were a nice break. The scenery is still gorgeous.
That being said, Seattle is dirty. There are sections that are boarded up. It smells like pee at every corner. The homeless situation seems to be somewhat improved, but be prepared to experience it. If you don't get screamed at by some crazy hobo, then you are missing out. It's also expensive. Most of my friends bailed on Seattle and now live in the burbs or further out.
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Posted on 9/30/24 at 3:36 pm to fallguy_1978
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I'd say probably Northern Alaska. After that maybe Northern Minnesota, and I'm no fan of our weather
I wouldn't really count Northern Alaska mainly because it not even a blip on the map to be called rural. It's remote. I imagine weather is a very large part of it.
Posted on 9/30/24 at 3:51 pm to concrete_tiger
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There is something called the Seattle freeze, and a lot of people struggle to make friends and that causes quite a bit of depression. For me, I had plenty of friends at work and made myself participate in stuff. You can also find an alumni group to hang out with during football season.
I was there last week. I visited with friends, enjoyed seeing places I used to hang out at, and the cool temps were a nice break. The scenery is still gorgeous.
That being said, Seattle is dirty. There are sections that are boarded up. It smells like pee at every corner. The homeless situation seems to be somewhat improved, but be prepared to experience it. If you don't get screamed at by some crazy hobo, then you are missing out. It's also expensive. Most of my friends bailed on Seattle and now live in the burbs or further out.
I just returned from a week in Seattle. The high temps never got above 68. The lows never below 52. I like gray, cool days. Every day was like that until the marine layer burned off in the afternoon. Once that happened the weather was beautiful. However, I could see how the constant "gray" could get to you.
The downtown area was big and "new" relative to other large cities. The areas outside of downtown seemed pleasant. But the one thing my wife and I kept saying was that at times it was difficult to distinguish between who was a junkie and who was just a regular person. No one was overly friendly (though not necessarily rude) and and no one was particularly dressed well. I know Seattle is famous for "grunge", but that really was the prevailing look. It seems like if you are a single guy who is relatively good looking, has some degree of personality, and gives somewhat of a damn about how he presents himself, you could clean up there!
I was also absurdly "progressive". I say absurdly because seeming every restaurant, bar, store, etc made it a point to prominently display some iteration of the LGBTQ+++ (etc) flag and have signs on the window/door demanding you know how much they don' tolerate intolerance...as if there were roving gangs of white males going into Seattle establishments beating up gay people. It was vapid virtue signaling to appease the virtue signalers.
I'm sure the more suburban areas around the sound are great and there is probably no shortage of outdoor activities. That would be cool. But Seattle itself is probably not for me.
Posted on 9/30/24 at 3:51 pm to Toss_Dive
Whats the budget? Bothell is coming up, Renton is still respectable, maybe Lynwood
Posted on 9/30/24 at 3:53 pm to Toss_Dive
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So where is the best place to live that you don’t have to have F you money?
The Snoqualmie Valley. You can get in for 500k.
Posted on 9/30/24 at 4:43 pm to Toss_Dive
Posted on 9/30/24 at 5:20 pm to DeltaTigerDelta
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what is Tacoma like?
quote:As stated earlier, I lived there for years (until 2022) and this is probably the most succinctly accurate description I've seen. Used to be rough, blue collar, and cheap. I liked that Tacoma a lot better.
Rough, blue collar and very expensive.
The western slope and the north end have some really nice areas with beautiful views and really cool architecture. 6th Ave is the dividing line. South of 6th it gets progressively shittier.
This post was edited on 9/30/24 at 5:22 pm
Posted on 9/30/24 at 5:22 pm to northshorebamaman
Didn't you get robbed at gunpoint multiple times there? I can't remember if you were in Tacoma or Seattle.
Posted on 9/30/24 at 5:29 pm to fallguy_1978
quote:Yeah.
Didn't you get robbed at gunpoint multiple times there? I can't remember if you were in Tacoma or Seattle.
Tacoma. Probably worth noting in my review of the city. Things rapidly went to shite during COVID. Hence, my move to a small town in the desert.
Posted on 9/30/24 at 6:11 pm to Toss_Dive
Nicer than you would think.
Posted on 9/30/24 at 6:13 pm to Toss_Dive
Lots of people on legal and illegal drugs there.
Washington also likes to try their hand at unconstitutional laws.
Washington also likes to try their hand at unconstitutional laws.
Posted on 9/30/24 at 6:28 pm to Toss_Dive
It's the northernmost major city in the continental US. In addition to the overcast, it gets dark about 430 in the afternoon in winter. As others have said, it's amazing in the summer. Traffic can be a problem and there's a lot of "can't get there from here" because of all the bodies of water. My sister (no pics) lives about 50 miles from Seattle as the crow flies but it's a three hour drive.
Seattle proper has a lot of well documented problems but there are a lot of great smaller towns nearby if you can afford the real estate. My sister and her husband have a nothing special 3BR 2Bath house in a nothing special neighborhood. They bought it years ago before the real estate boom and it would probably go for around 800k if they ever decide to sell.
ETA they don't have hurricanes but they get big windstorms a couple of times during the winter that can put trees on houses. Mt Rainier is an active volcano and Tacoma is built on a mudflow from an eruption. They're also overdue for a major earthquake on the Cascadia Fault.
Seattle proper has a lot of well documented problems but there are a lot of great smaller towns nearby if you can afford the real estate. My sister and her husband have a nothing special 3BR 2Bath house in a nothing special neighborhood. They bought it years ago before the real estate boom and it would probably go for around 800k if they ever decide to sell.
ETA they don't have hurricanes but they get big windstorms a couple of times during the winter that can put trees on houses. Mt Rainier is an active volcano and Tacoma is built on a mudflow from an eruption. They're also overdue for a major earthquake on the Cascadia Fault.
This post was edited on 9/30/24 at 6:34 pm
Posted on 9/30/24 at 6:43 pm to Jim Rockford
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ETA they don't have hurricanes but they get big windstorms a couple of times during the winter that can put trees on houses. Mt Rainier is an active volcano and Tacoma is built on a mudflow from an eruption. They're also overdue for a major earthquake on the Cascadia Fault.
I see you're the glass half full type Jim
Posted on 9/30/24 at 9:21 pm to Jim Rockford
quote:The "flats",area was built on a mud flow but that's an industrial area. 95% of the city was not.
Tacoma is built on a mudflow from an eruption.
The flow area is to the right. That's pretty much just the port, industrial sites, and railroad tracks.
The population lives in the elevated area to the left of that.
This post was edited on 9/30/24 at 10:11 pm
Posted on 9/30/24 at 11:49 pm to Toss_Dive
I see. Where’s the job?
Posted on 10/1/24 at 12:00 am to Toss_Dive
Seattle was beautiful one day out of the 4 days I was there on both ends of my Alaskan cruise.
Out of those 4 days, I could only see Mt. Rainer once. This was mid August.
Out of those 4 days, I could only see Mt. Rainer once. This was mid August.
Posted on 10/1/24 at 12:13 am to notiger1997
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Please describe for us in detail all of your trips there and where you encountered these folks and where you didn’t.
On Martin Luther King Day 2020 after I refused to buy him a free drink, a black guy at a bar loudly whispered in my ear that it’d be funny if he just took out his knife, gutted me, watch me bleed to death on the floor, and then get away with it because it was “MLK Day, baby.” I asked for my check and the guy then left saying that he’d be waiting for me outside.
As soon as he leaves I yell out “what the frick” and the guy sitting next to me heard it as well where he started ranting with me about it. Then the bartender comes up telling us to calm down saying that he does this all the time. I then immediately ask him “What the frick do you mean he does this all the time?” Well apparently he goes from bar to bar and threatens the clientele and when he’s inevitably kicked out that he calls up the local news and they do a piece on how the local business is racist against him. So in order to avoid the bad press, they allow him to say and threaten whoever.
So I then point blank say to him “Let me get this straight: you put bad press over your own customers lives? Is that what you’re saying?” He denies it and offers to comp my drinks for the night (which I accept) but I also say that I’m never coming back again despite being a somewhat regular doing business there every three months.
The bar is Kells btw and they don’t value their customer’s lives. Guarantee the mother fricker that threatened me had a major part of Chaz a few months later and may have killed a few people.
Is that specific enough for you?
This post was edited on 10/1/24 at 12:14 am
Posted on 10/1/24 at 3:14 am to OMLandshark
quote:The ole "black guy threatens to disembowel every white guy in the place that doesn't buy him a drink on MLK Day or he goes to the press and everyone just goes along with it because they're all weak liberal cucks despite the fact that it's an extremely popular bar that's frequented by visitors of all political leanings from across the country" routine, eh?
On Martin Luther King Day 2020 after I refused to buy him a free drink, a black guy at a bar loudly whispered in my ear that it’d be funny if he just took out his knife, gutted me, watch me bleed to death on the floor, and then get away with it because it was “MLK Day, baby.” I asked for my check and the guy then left saying that he’d be waiting for me outside.
As soon as he leaves I yell out “what the frick” and the guy sitting next to me heard it as well where he started ranting with me about it. Then the bartender comes up telling us to calm down saying that he does this all the time. I then immediately ask him “What the frick do you mean he does this all the time?” Well apparently he goes from bar to bar and threatens the clientele and when he’s inevitably kicked out that he calls up the local news and they do a piece on how the local business is racist against him. So in order to avoid the bad press, they allow him to say and threaten whoever.
I've seen it a thousand times.
This post was edited on 10/1/24 at 3:33 am
Posted on 10/1/24 at 4:47 am to Toss_Dive
Washington is one of the most beautiful states you can live in, one day i'll move there, ill take the gloom over the god awful weather of the deep south any day.
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