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re: Would you live in Seattle suburbs?
Posted on 1/24/24 at 6:55 pm to MeridianDog
Posted on 1/24/24 at 6:55 pm to MeridianDog
Yup, it rains 13 months of the year here.
This Seattle newcomer walks up to a kid and asks “Hey kid. When does it stop raining here” and the kid answers “How would I know mister? I’m only 7.”
What did the Seattlite tell the Pilsbury Doughboy? “Dude, nice tan!’
What do we call two days of rain in-a-row in Seattle? A: the weekend
What do we call three days of rain in-a-row? A: holiday weekend.
This Seattle newcomer walks up to a kid and asks “Hey kid. When does it stop raining here” and the kid answers “How would I know mister? I’m only 7.”
What did the Seattlite tell the Pilsbury Doughboy? “Dude, nice tan!’
What do we call two days of rain in-a-row in Seattle? A: the weekend
What do we call three days of rain in-a-row? A: holiday weekend.
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Posted on 1/24/24 at 7:35 pm to Hogwall Jackson
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Nice. Iived a block from Buckley’s.
Was it in a cardboard box on 3rd Ave?
Posted on 1/24/24 at 8:12 pm to Centinel
quote:Yep. Beautiful places attract the ugliest people, spiritual and physical. Funny how that works.
Washington is very similar to California. A beautiful state ruined by the shitbags who live there.
Posted on 1/24/24 at 9:03 pm to SneezyBeltranIsHere
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Was it in a cardboard box on 3rd Ave?
good guess! Battery & Western
Posted on 1/24/24 at 9:50 pm to RedRifle
Lived in Bellevue on Cougar Mt for a couple of years
Posted on 1/24/24 at 10:06 pm to RedRifle
I live by the gorge about 45 mins east of Portland, love the outdoors and wouldn’t trade it for the world.
Got a lot of likeminded baws around that like to hunt and fish as well.
Got a lot of likeminded baws around that like to hunt and fish as well.
Posted on 1/24/24 at 10:11 pm to RedRifle
When I went to Seattle back in 2016, I loved the city,these days I probably wouldn't. JS
This post was edited on 1/24/24 at 10:12 pm
Posted on 1/24/24 at 11:38 pm to Jim Rockford
quote:false
rarely see the sun between October and April.
Posted on 1/24/24 at 11:40 pm to Big Scrub TX
Yeah...even more than the politics the drab rainy weather seems like it would weigh too heavy on me.
Posted on 1/24/24 at 11:41 pm to AwgustaDawg
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Oysters are good but $7-$10 EACH
what
Posted on 1/24/24 at 11:43 pm to Darth_Vader
quote:Cloudy /= "dreary" necessarily. There are many "cloudy" days that are warm and one is grateful to be out enjoying it the entire time.
I’ve seen a lot of people make a lot of stupid arguments on here, but trying to argue that Seattle isn’t famous for its dreary weather, is pretty high on the list.
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The city generally experiences cloudy conditions, with clear days occurring infrequently. As a result of the city's latitude, it experiences a moderate difference in daylight hours between summer and winter, though is not subject to the extremes of cities further north.[26] The Seattle area is the cloudiest region of the United States, due in part to frequent storms and lows moving in from the adjacent Pacific Ocean. Seattle is cloudy 201 days out of the year and partly cloudy 93 days.
Posted on 1/24/24 at 11:46 pm to RedRifle
I’m pretty sure I couldn’t afford the blue roof on the home in the third picture, much less the home beneath it.
Posted on 1/25/24 at 12:19 am to WB Davis
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There was some local abortion of a Tex-Mex chain called Taco Time that served combo meals with tater tots.
Taco Time NW is awesome.
Posted on 1/25/24 at 3:05 am to RedRifle
No. I don't want my grandson to be a dick less they.
I'm dead serious too, idgaf how much money it is. I won't put my kids around that toxic evil they've created.
I would never trade money for what I thought was best for my child
I'm dead serious too, idgaf how much money it is. I won't put my kids around that toxic evil they've created.
I would never trade money for what I thought was best for my child
Posted on 1/25/24 at 3:06 am to go_tigres
quote:You know your sister pegs him right?
My BIL lives there and likes it. He liberal leaning though.
Posted on 1/25/24 at 3:59 am to Rex Feral
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The houses in your pictures all cost $1M plus so no. I'd rather spend that money 20 acres and a house in Georgia and be left alone.
That’s my plan.
100+ acres up in/near Dillard, GA.
My soul feels so much freer and lighter there.
Posted on 1/25/24 at 5:02 am to Warfox
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.
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.
Posted on 1/25/24 at 6:02 am to Midtiger farm
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blue collar people union or non union side/vote mostly republican in today's world
JD Vance and Josh Hawley, and even Rubio and Trump sometimes are pro union/populist in certain situations
More union members support GOP candidates than they historically have, that is true. The vast majority still support Democrats though. I interact with union building tradesman daily, from the PNW to the deep south. While they are not nearly universally Democrats like they once were they are still about 80% Democrats. From a identity politics POV alone the demographics among Union members, AFL unions but especially CIO unions, is the Democratic party's base electorate. There is a VAST difference between blue collar AFL union members (iron workers, for example) and blue-collar CIO union members (food canning employees for example). Either way they are far more likley to vote for Democrats than not.
Eastern Washington is a GOP stronghold. The blue-collar workers in Eastern Washington are far more likely to support GOP candidates than those on the other side of the Cascades. They would be left leaning moderates to progressives in the South relative to the average GOP supporter in the south. They'd be far more like metro Atlanta Republicans than they would be to Florida Panhandle Republicans. Even in Eastern Washington Union blue collar workers are far more likely to support Democrats that Republicans. Not in the same numbers as they once did but still a sizeable majority.
Posted on 1/25/24 at 6:09 am to TDawg1313
Basically your whole post is based on politics. I just can’t figure out why people let politics run their lives…..
Posted on 1/25/24 at 6:10 am to northshorebamaman
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It sounds like you only ate at Ivars. There is plenty of good food just like every other decent sized metro in the US. You act like people are limited to and only eat stereotypical regional food. This isn't 1950.
Regional food is the foundation of culture. Yes, there are great restaurants in the PNW where one can enjoy as good a meal as there is to be had on the planet. Many of those source their ingredients locally...its a big deal in the PNW. The food they prepare is not traditionally found in the PNW culture. Asian food is a good example. It is excellent...it is not part of the PNW culture, it is not traditional in the region. Yes, Seattle is an actual international city and the US gateway to the northern Pacific realm. There is a noticeable lack of cultural identity like you will find in Atlanta and Chicago even, let alone New Orleans or Miami or New York. It is actually seen in the area by locals as a net positive. They like the routine and predictability. It is comforting.
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