re: Would you live in Seattle suburbs?

Depends on your definition of Suburb.

Seattle proper is a different planet then the Eastside only a few miles away. Seattle proper is what you see in the media though. The homeless issue has improved a ton over the past couple of years. They still exist, but they aren't taking over the public places anymore. It was a disaster coming out of covid. Now you can do the touristy stuff downtown or visit places like Greenlake and hardly see any.

Suburbs as in the Eastside (Bellevue, Kirkland, Redmond, Issaquah, Sammamish) are way different than Seattle, but still too left leaning to raise a family and way too expensive. To get a decent 2000 sqft home in any of those cities would be $1M+. Bellevue passed Manhattan a year or two ago as the most expensive place to live in the US outside of the Bay Area. Those are the reasons we moved. We moved to Utah to keep the outdoor opportunities (WA is impossible to beat for beauty, but UT is close), the sun, and the politics. When we bought, we got an average house here and in the same neighborhood we moved from on the Eastside, it would have cost us $1.8M. Not doable to raise a family.

Venture outside of King County and it can get very conservative quickly, but you still have to deal with state politics and laws. I lived in probably the most conservative city in the state for 20 years and it was a good place to grow up. Not a lot of opportunities though, so I lived on the Eastside for 10 years.

tldr;
I would never live in Seattle proper. The Eastside would be good if you could afford a $1.5M home and could tolerate the politics. Outside of King County there are some beautiful, affordable, and right-leaning places, but it depends on your phase of life.