So I moved to Seattle

Paleocon wrote:

A tunnel in an earthquake zone. What could possibly go wrong?

edit. Oh and yes, I meant East Side (still got the whole being on the East coast and away from big water is West thing going on). My office is in Hellvue, but I don't have to go but twice a week.

Three of us working Bellevue now, whoa.

Probably too far for your wife, but where I live is relatively affordable, despite seeing similar price increases to Jonman (our place has gone up $75k in two years). Kent's transit center makes it relatively easy to get to Bellevue or Seattle, but it would be a long drive in to UW.

I am perfectly content with the idea of a mid century sfr that I could work on and in but I think she's got her head set on new construction. I think she's convinced that new means better.

Chairman_Mao wrote:

Three of us working Bellevue now, whoa.

Two if you were counting me - I just got moved up to Everett

Paleocon wrote:

A tunnel in an earthquake zone. What could possibly go wrong?

No, a tunnel drilled through ground that is mostly made up of fill soil that is below the water-line, which will liquify when (not if) a big earthquake hits.

Through to be fair, the viaduct was going to instantaneously pancake in the event of an earthquake, killing everyone on the road AND everyone beneath it, so it is, weirdly, a slight improvement from the point of view of safety.

Jonman wrote:
Chairman_Mao wrote:

Three of us working Bellevue now, whoa.

Two if you were counting me - I just got moved up to Everett

Boo-urns.

Paleocon wrote:

I am perfectly content with the idea of a mid century sfr that I could work on and in but I think she's got her head set on new construction. I think she's convinced that new means better.

There's tons of new construction going on around here. Kent is also incredibly diverse, which I really love.

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Chairman_Mao wrote:
Jonman wrote:

Two if you were counting me - I just got moved up to Everett

Boo-urns.

But on the plus side, a 25 minute reverse-commute ain't half-bad!

Jonman wrote:
Chairman_Mao wrote:
Jonman wrote:

Two if you were counting me - I just got moved up to Everett

Boo-urns.

But on the plus side, a 25 minute reverse-commute ain't half-bad!

True that. I was thinking to look at REI jobs since they're based in Kent, but now they're moving to Bellevue...

I am sure I could pretty much make my own commute schedule as the only reason to be in the office is to escape the house and fly the flag. Most of my colleagues are in RTP or Sunnyvale anyway.

Chairman_Mao wrote:
Jonman wrote:
Chairman_Mao wrote:

Three of us working Bellevue now, whoa.

Two if you were counting me - I just got moved up to Everett

Boo-urns.

I work in Bellevue.

SixteenBlue wrote:
Chairman_Mao wrote:
Jonman wrote:
Chairman_Mao wrote:

Three of us working Bellevue now, whoa.

Two if you were counting me - I just got moved up to Everett

Boo-urns.

I work in Bellevue.

Bots don't count.

I'm nearby working in Redmond. The Montlake Transit center is nearby and can help you get to Hellvue for you Paleo since you don't seem to be allergic to transit (there are shots and therapy available for your wife :P). You can also park and ride at Lynwood and Ash Way P&R that have direct routes to Hellvue.

Dr.Ghastly wrote:

Bots don't count.

RNG can confirm I actually exist now.

Edwin wrote:

I'm nearby working in Redmond. The Montlake Transit center is nearby and can help you get to Hellvue for you Paleo since you don't seem to be allergic to transit (there are shots and therapy available for your wife :P). You can also park and ride at Lynwood and Ash Way P&R that have direct routes to Hellvue.

Aw come on, we have such great crosswalks now. Edwin which building are you in? I go to Building 2 for meetings every month.

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SixteenBlue wrote:
Chairman_Mao wrote:
Jonman wrote:
Chairman_Mao wrote:

Three of us working Bellevue now, whoa.

Two if you were counting me - I just got moved up to Everett

Boo-urns.

I work in Bellevue.

Back up to 3! I assume we're all not too far from each other. My office is in the Wells Fargo building.

Chairman_Mao wrote:

Back up to 3! I assume we're all not too far from each other. My office is in the Wells Fargo building.

I'm in the Bank of America building.

Stupid buttons

RoughneckGeek wrote:
Chairman_Mao wrote:
Edwin wrote:

I'm nearby working in Redmond. The Montlake Transit center is nearby and can help you get to Hellvue for you Paleo since you don't seem to be allergic to transit (there are shots and therapy available for your wife :P). You can also park and ride at Lynwood and Ash Way P&R that have direct routes to Hellvue.

Aw come on, we have such great crosswalks now. Edwin which building are you in? I go to Building 2 for meetings every month.

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That's one boring looking crosswalk. I think I'll stick with these:

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My son would love those.

I'm run around between Studio H, 50, 84 and occasionally 24.

FWIW, we live in Snohomish on the border of Mill Creek (out by Lynnwood) and Fire commutes to downtown Seattle over by the stadiums. It takes him between 30 and 40 minutes to get to work, but he's adjusted his schedule so he's not trying to do it at rush hours. 5 can be interesting, and 405 is usually a giant rolling root-canal at drivetime. I work from home now, but who knows where I'll end up if I change jobs.

We paid 485k for a property with two houses on it, but it's far from new construction. There's new construction going up on either side of us for around 500k.

Paleo is moving to Seattle?

karmajay wrote:

Paleo is moving to Seattle?

It is not set in stone yet. It all depends on my whims of my wife who has expressed that she doesn't want to move to NC and doesn't want to live apart anymore. We were talking about my moving back up to Baltimore, but a couple other things kind of complicated things.

One is that my client is predominantly on the West coast and a time alignment would work better for all parties involved if I was out in that area. Another is that my wife's family is sort of a hive mind and can't be more than an hour's drive from one another without exhibiting distress and anxiety. I am not joking about this. Even the family dog (a 8 year old Pembroke Welsh Corgi) gets visibly and audibly agitated when the "flock" looks like it might be splitting up. They, literally, call one another twice a day.

My wife is also very traditionally Korean and feels a great sense of obligation to cater to my mother's needs. My dad passed three years ago and my mom is in an odd place right now. That and she has never had a problem taking all the slack anyone will politely give her if they continue to politely give it. Since my wife feels it is an obligation (and she is the only member of my extended family within 200 miles), she ends up giving a lot more than she feels she should sometimes despite my telling her not to.

One would think this would be simply solved by having her move down to NC, but she doesn't want to move someplace where she has to work so hard to be comfortable in her own skin. And by that I mean that she can feel the stares from our neighbors at the pool and the grocery store as if she is some kind of novelty (and it isn't like we live in Johnston County or anything). And since I went through all that as a kid, I can't really deny that I see it myself. It isn't that she *can't* deal with it. It is that she would be seriously bummed if she had to actually move someplace like that and feel like she can't leave (which is what a job down here would do to her).

That and we both really love Seattle.

Paleo - as a White Southerner I have to say you need to get out of there. Your current town sounds much worse than the one I grew up in, and that's saying something. I know there's still prejudice anywhere you go but I have numerous Asian American friends who tell me they at least feel safe in the Seattle area. There's also a large Korean community if you were living to move slightly South towards Tacoma.

The Edmonds area might as well be little Korea.

I don't think this place is unsafe per se (though the boldness of some of the overt racism has astounded me since Trump started campaigning here). It is that dealing with the often oppressive atmosphere of resentment and entitlement from folks who demand that you conform to their baseline of cultural and racial normality is more than my wife wants to deal with for the rest of her life. And having grown up around it and knowing how miserable it made me as a kid, I can't say I blame her even if I am mostly immune to it now. In the end, it would be a really crappy thing to make her accept.

Edwin wrote:

The Edmonds area might as well be little Korea.

In all my ramblings about this town, I'd forgotten about the fact that the North 'burbs have a bunch of clusters of various South Asian communities. Shoreline has a big Phillipino contingent, as well as Korean.

I am selling the idea of Shoreline.

Paleocon wrote:

I am selling the idea of Shoreline.

Not to disable you on it, but there are downsides too.

It's *very* suburban. Very little in the way of culture or excitement, but good for quietly getting on with life. Good neighborhood for raising kids, bad neighborhood for going out and doing exciting things (although to be fair, downtown is only a bus ride away, so that's still available, it's just not on your doorstep. Maybe that's a plus for some folk). Downtown Shoreline is a depressing strip of vacant storefronts and failing businesses, interspersed with national chains.

Crime isn't plentiful, but the SR-99 corridor (which runs along the west of Shoreline) is a high-crime area. It's one of 2 big "tracks" that prostitutes and johns use in the city, and meth-heads are part of the street furniture. Which means that car prowls and opportunistic burglaries aren't uncommon. Unrelated, it's also one of the few places in the city that pot stores are allowed, so you have the weird situation where there's a pot store every quarter mile for a several-mile-long stretch of road. Brave new world and all that.

Plus, you know, I live here, so the tone of the place has *really* gone downhill.

On the plus side, there's a bunch of great parks close-by, including lovely Puget Sound and Lake Washington beaches, commuting access is good (compared to many other Seattle 'hoods), and the area is fairly well in demand, so expect to see a lot of new construction (especially as the higher-density rezone kicks in the next few years to account for the light rail expansion). Yay gentrification?

I figure the seedy parts of town are probably going to end up priced out of the area eventually. I would rather be closer to Fremont or Wallingford, but no way could we afford that at this point. I think she would probably be happier to be suburban, so Shoreline sounds like it probably fits the bill just fine.

Paleocon wrote:

I figure the seedy parts of town are probably going to end up priced out of the area eventually. I would rather be closer to Fremont or Wallingford, but no way could we afford that at this point. I think she would probably be happier to be suburban, so Shoreline sounds like it probably fits the bill just fine.

You just described the exact process by which we ended up in Shoreline

Jonman wrote:
Paleocon wrote:

I figure the seedy parts of town are probably going to end up priced out of the area eventually. I would rather be closer to Fremont or Wallingford, but no way could we afford that at this point. I think she would probably be happier to be suburban, so Shoreline sounds like it probably fits the bill just fine.

You just described the exact process by which we ended up in Shoreline :)

Hell, you and my wife might end up on the commute together.

Paleocon wrote:
Jonman wrote:
Paleocon wrote:

I figure the seedy parts of town are probably going to end up priced out of the area eventually. I would rather be closer to Fremont or Wallingford, but no way could we afford that at this point. I think she would probably be happier to be suburban, so Shoreline sounds like it probably fits the bill just fine.

You just described the exact process by which we ended up in Shoreline :)

Hell, you and my wife might end up on the commute together.

Don't worry, I definitely won't share with the entirety of Goodjerdom all the hilarious stories of your mishaps that she tells me to while away the commute. No sirree Bob.