seattle - a nice place to live or not?

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Aug 11, 2004
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Im thinkin of movin to seattle eventually and wanna know compared to san jo and san fran is it safer weather better or worse all that kind of stuff ive heard its pretty nice and yarnall and central seattle are the only hood areas.... im not lookin for a hood place to live im tryna find a nice place and i heard up there was nice.... lemme know
 

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It's overcast a lot, with drizzle. There's not a lot of "rain" as everyone says, we actually have less rain than a lot of places you wouldn't expect to get more than the "Rainy City."

It's nice, depends on where you live, just like everywhere else. Summers are beautiful, springs are usually nice, not a lot of snow if any during winter, although there can be pretty big snow storms....

Just don't move to Eastern Washington. If you're in Western Washington, you'll be fine, there's a lot more jobs out there too. E. Washington is pretty much a lot of conservative, red neck types.
 

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You're welcome....make sure you check back, I'm sure others will add to what I've said.

North Seattle isn't bad, I use to live there. Although, I swear that everywhere I look when I go back (I live in Eastern Washington for school until June), there's a bunch of fuckin tweakers...And people can't drive for shit, just like everywhere else...When I'm in Seattle, I give at least one person the finger each day for doing something stupid.

Besides the stupid fucks though, it's a great place, and there's stupid people everywhere you go, so overall, Seattle and the surrounding areas are actually pretty damn nice. You could think about Bellevue too, depending on your $ situation.
 
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I lived in Seattle for about a year. I loved it. Never rained in the summer when I was there. It rained a lot in the fall/winter but I didn't mind.
 

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Seattle's average is 36.2 inches. It's not that bad, and most of the "rain" isn't actual rain. When I think of rain, I think of the storms I've seen in Florida and maybe even Ohio during the summer wear it POURS and within 10 seconds you're soaked...In Seattle, you could walk around in the "rain" for a few hours and probably not be soaked cause it falls so lightly and the drops are usually small.
 
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LiLgUerOeNe415 said:
Im thinkin of movin to seattle eventually and wanna know compared to san jo and san fran is it safer
From a safety perspective, if you do not live in Oakland or Richmond, it will be just like the Bay up here.
 
Apr 14, 2003
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Sixxness said:
Just don't move to Eastern Washington. If you're in Western Washington, you'll be fine, there's a lot more jobs out there too. E. Washington is pretty much a lot of conservative, red neck types.

What part of Eastern Washington you mean?? them little towns or what??
 

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D'struction said:
What part of Eastern Washington you mean?? them little towns or what??

Small towns, whatever. I'm just guessing but I'd say about 95% of E. Washington is Conservative due to the agriculture out here. All parts of E. Washington are pretty much red neck, with a few places that aren't. It's pretty much the opposite of Seattle and Western Washington...
 
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Sixxness said:
Small towns, whatever. I'm just guessing but I'd say about 95% of E. Washington is Conservative due to the agriculture out here. All parts of E. Washington are pretty much red neck, with a few places that aren't. It's pretty much the opposite of Seattle and Western Washington...
Everybody always forgets about the Mexicans when talking about Eastern WA, they're one of the first things I think of when I think Eastern WA, they make up anywhere from 30-40% of the population over there, rising every day too. Eastern WA actually is not as white as Western WA is b/c the Mexicans over there are a BIG chunk of the population but on the West Side of the mountains, the minority groups are much smaller chunks. So I'd be on board with the generalization that the WHITE people in Eastern WA are rednecks, I'm fine with that, but not everybody.

Eastern WA has some real nice small cities, I'm a big fan of the Tri-Cities, love it over there. Yakima is a pretty thoro place. Moses Lake's also nice.
 

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Well, considering naturally brown skin doesn't turn red like a white person's, I think that's why they call it "red neck."

The other thing with the Mexican population is that a lot of them are migrant workers, or they come up for a season and then go back to Mexico to be with their family. But the people that vote, and pretty much make things conservative, are predominately white, which is what I was getting at.

Yakima is actually not that great of a place...Not tryin to knock it, but I think even Ellensburg is better--even if it's smaller...There's too many fuckin tweekers in Eastern Washington though....too many tweekers in general....lock your car no matter where you live...lol...my homey got jacked for his system along with like 10 other neighbors that got robbed, in one night, over a period of about an hour.

Panther, I do think though that if more of the Mexican population started to vote, things would be different. I've talked to the head of the Republican committee out here, and they don't give a shit about them honestly...as far as money, yes...but special interests, fuck no. The only thing most of them (politicians in E. Wash) care about is making farmers happy. They vote, they have money, they can make a big deal out of shit and cause problems....so they get taken care of first.....but that's another thread, let me shut up.
 

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washington here i come! My family and I are probably going to move to the Tacoma area in about 2 years or so. I havn't been there but i had 2 opportunities this year, but i blew them off(busy and hectic work schedule).
I'm anxious to go, but i'll wait until next spring to enjoy the weather and the sceanery.


How far is Seatle from the Canada &/or Alaska border?
 
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Sixxness said:
There's too many fuckin tweekers in Eastern Washington though....too many tweekers in general....lock your car no matter where you live...lol...my homey got jacked for his system along with like 10 other neighbors that got robbed, in one night, over a period of about an hour.
real talk
 
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THESEUS said:
i think san jose is one of the nicest spots.... in terms of weather.... jobs.... bitches.... shit we got it all
You are absolutely right on there man. Also San Jose has the lowest crime rate of any US city over 500,000 population. Everything I've heard about it is positive.
 
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ZigZagBurna said:
How far is Seatle from the Canada &/or Alaska border?
I STAY IN SEATTLE, IT'S ABOUT 2 1/2 DRIVE FROM CANADA, DEPENDING HOW YOU DRIVE, NOT SURE ABOUT ALASKA.

I GOT FAMILY OVER IN EASTERN WASHINGTON, MY MEXICAN SIDE, I CAN'T LIVE THERE, TOO BORING, I GO OVER THERE TO GET A BREAK FROM SEATTLE. NOT TOO SURE ABOUT THE RATIO SOMEONE SAID THAT MEXICANS POPULATED EVERYTHING AND OTHER MINORITIES CAME IN SMALL CHUNKS THOUGH. HE'S OFF.