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Post subject: Seattle anyone? not the team but the place....
Posted: Fri Jan 31, 2014 6:08 pm
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Taking a little trip to Seattle early March to check it out as a possible place to relocate. I have been living in Clearwater, Florida for near on 21 years and figure it is time for a change (maybe). Going to check it out then start crunching serious numbers to ensure we are not losing too much by moving. Anyone live there, love it there... other?


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Post subject: Re: Seattle anyone? not the team but the place....
Posted: Fri Jan 31, 2014 6:17 pm
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You like rain?

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Post subject: Re: Seattle anyone? not the team but the place....
Posted: Fri Jan 31, 2014 6:23 pm
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ha ha... yeah i love rain. it makes me feel calm


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Post subject: Re: Seattle anyone? not the team but the place....
Posted: Fri Jan 31, 2014 10:40 pm
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lots to see and do around seattle,visit renton and jimi,s gravesite and the experience museum.Also home to the superb seahawks,soon to be superbowl winners,oh and rain.


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Posted: Fri Jan 31, 2014 11:15 pm
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Arjay hit the nail on the head.
The bluest skies you've ever seen are (not) in Seattle.
Still a cool city .... but temperature isn't everything. :wink:
They have a floating neighbourhood of several dozen 3000 - 6000 square foot houses where the driveway has a 60 foot yacht floating in it. Thankfully the yachts are in the lake and not floating because of rising flood waters.
They have the Experience Music Project of course. Last I heard they patched the leaky roof.
They have a diverse range of live bands to see. Indoors of course.
And did we mention rain? Yah, they got that too.
After you've settled in to your new place and you've been to the store to buy several umbrellas for each member of your household and a very large umbrella holder and a very large wet-mat for the front door, get yourself a Seattle CityPass for about 60 or 70 bucks. You get to see quite a number of the local sights with that pass and on some days you can even see those sights through the downpour.

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Post subject: Re: Seattle anyone? not the team but the place....
Posted: Fri Jan 31, 2014 11:28 pm
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All kidding aside, when the sun comes out it's beautiful city. I'd put it right up there with Vancouver, BC. They get rain too. Especially North Van.

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Posted: Sat Feb 01, 2014 9:04 am
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Post subject: Re: Seattle anyone? not the team but the place....
Posted: Sat Feb 01, 2014 9:09 am
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ZZDoc wrote:
One of our son's has been out there past 20 years. Lives in Bellevue presently. Has lived in Issaqua and Kirkland as well. Area offers the best of cosmopolitian and rural options at a relative stones throw from each other.

The weather is no joke. My wife finds the 'cold' in winter bone-chilling...different from the NYC area where we used to live. I find that die hard Seattleites do not use umbrellas. Summers are glorious and payback for the fall-winter season. Several winters ago they got hammered by a 6" snowfall in April that NY'ers would have ho-hummed at. We were out there the week after and the roads were not well recovered. They've also had some serious storms coming in off the Pacific with winds in excess of 90 mph.

Commuting into center city by car can be a $@!&*. Very very, heavy traffic rush hours on I-5;I-90; I-405- and 520. I also find that the drivers on the freeways are becoming more lunatic like as the years progress. On a good day, you''l have Mt. Rainier to boost your spirits if you're heading south.

On the grim side, the area is sitting on a geological powderkeg awaiting events which most scientists agree will happen, but don't know when. This both from the Cascadia Fault, and Mount Rainier. I've read the master emergency preparedness plans and reports. In the final analysis, if they get the 'full monty', the area is 'f--ked.' All they'll really be able to do is clean up.

Until then, business as usual. We'll be out there visiting end of April. :wink:

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Posted: Tue Feb 04, 2014 5:10 pm
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Yeah, i have a lot of pros and cons to the move. I guess step one will be to check it out next month. my main concern is leaving a house we have decent equity in then moving to a place i fear we could never EVER afford to actually own a home in. Got a lot on my mind about it to be honest, it swings violently from "Just go man" to "have you lost your freakin' mind?!?"


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Posted: Tue Feb 04, 2014 7:21 pm
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zenbone wrote:
Yeah, i have a lot of pros and cons to the move. I guess step one will be to check it out next month. my main concern is leaving a house we have decent equity in then moving to a place i fear we could never EVER afford to actually own a home in. Got a lot on my mind about it to be honest, it swings violently from "Just go
man" to "have you lost your freakin' mind?!?"

We were in Clearwater across the New Year. The Seattle half of the family felt quite at home there considering the weather. I wonder was that weather characterisitic of November>March or just unusual?

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