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Metz you’re a spokanite? I’ve been preaching to these silly geese about the area for a while as part of my plan to turn the 5th blue but I guess they like overpaying for housing and having lousy traffic.
“I was quick when I came in here, I’m twice as quick now”
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I am! Lived here a couple times, this one seems to be sticking. Mostly. But yeah my apartment is only like 675 a month it's dope.
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I used to work just north of Ferndale, almost moved up there. Happy where I am, but there are days Bham traffic makes me want to move
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I also used to live in an RV park in Bellevue with my husband, our buddy Jeremy and three cats, then I lived in my buddy James' garage in Renton. Punk rock lifestyyyyyyle (it was fuckin awful and I almost killed everyone.)
My history with this state is complex. My grandpa's from Walla Walla Walla actually! Him and his best friend got arrested for stumbling down the literal middle of main street, at 1 pm, on a Monday, blind ass drunk. They were in 3rf grade at the time. This was the same year my grandpa accidentally shot a hole in the floor of the sheriff's office.
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My dad grew up in the tricities and Spokane and then got a job in the town near where I live north of Spokane and I’ve lived here the whole time except for when I was at WSU.
Couple of my uncles almost burned down Richland apparently back in the 60s.
Grandpa and his brothers used to car-tow each other on waterskis in the irrigation canals down around Yakima apparently.
“I was quick when I came in here, I’m twice as quick now”
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Metzger MeisterIt Gets Worsebefore it gets any better.Registered Userregular
My dad grew up in the tricities and Spokane and then got a job in the town near where I live north of Spokane and I’ve lived here the whole time except for when I was at WSU.
Couple of my uncles almost burned down Richland apparently back in the 60s.
Grandpa and his brothers used to car-tow each other on waterskis in the irrigation canals down around Yakima apparently.
I like this area. I love the mountains, I love the rain. My dad used to live up in Nine Mile and that'd be nice until you have to drive to town for groceries or whatever.
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I've always lived in the South Puget Sound area, so I've just never strongly considered moving. I have a job, I know all the back roads, I'm close to family. My wife and I joke about moving to Sweden, but I don't know that I could really give up the PNW.
"I will write your name in the ruin of them. I will paint you across history in the color of their blood."
I've always lived in the South Puget Sound area, so I've just never strongly considered moving. I have a job, I know all the back roads, I'm close to family. My wife and I joke about moving to Sweden, but I don't know that I could really give up the PNW.
Just move to Poulsbo. All the Norwegian flavor, without leaving the PNW!
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I've always lived in the South Puget Sound area, so I've just never strongly considered moving. I have a job, I know all the back roads, I'm close to family. My wife and I joke about moving to Sweden, but I don't know that I could really give up the PNW.
This, very much this. I'm trying to move back to Washington in the next 6 months and the ideal is no further North than Tacoma. Tumwater would be great but unless I go state there's not a lot of software jobs down there.
I used to fantasize about living somewhere north of Bellingham and getting Canucks season tickets, but if my wife and I ever leave Seattle we'll probably be heading out of state. My wife went to college at Western and didn't love it, so Bellingham is out. Plus she's never lived outside of Washington and that has started to bother her now that she's in the back half of her 30s. Dunno where we'd go, though. There are a lot of places we'd be interested to try, but climate change is going to make most of them damn near uninhabitable in the next 20 years, and the rest have real estate markets that are nearly as brutal as Seattle's.
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I lived in Port Angeles when I was wee. We used to swim in the ocean until our lips started turning blue. I heard that little town went through a rough patch in the last 20 years or so tho.
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Sydney is a reporter for KUOW, and jenny durkan is our lousy mayor
Sydney has done excellent reporting for a few outlets here in Seattle, and if she says something or drops a big story, it's extremely worth paying attention to.
yeah she and Heidi Groover were the last two reasons I would check in with the Stranger
now that they have anointed a successor to Dan Savage's shithead throne in the form of Katie Herzog, I don't see much reason to read the paper anymore
I follow Mudede on twitter, that's all I need from them now
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I've always lived in the South Puget Sound area, so I've just never strongly considered moving. I have a job, I know all the back roads, I'm close to family. My wife and I joke about moving to Sweden, but I don't know that I could really give up the PNW.
I grew up in Snohomish county, in a few places along that stretch of highway 9 with a reputation for boredom and crackheads, and when I finally escaped to Seattle I was certain I'd never want to move back
I still don't, not really, but a couple winters ago I was out in Issaquah, housesitting for some people, and seeing those rolling hills, covered in trees and steam fog, made me heartsick for Granite Falls in a way that caught me really off guard
I've always lived in the South Puget Sound area, so I've just never strongly considered moving. I have a job, I know all the back roads, I'm close to family. My wife and I joke about moving to Sweden, but I don't know that I could really give up the PNW.
I grew up in Snohomish county, in a few places along that stretch of highway 9 with a reputation for boredom and crackheads, and when I finally escaped to Seattle I was certain I'd never want to move back
I still don't, not really, but a couple winters ago I was out in Issaquah, housesitting for some people, and seeing those rolling hills, covered in trees and steam fog, made me heartsick for Granite Falls in a way that caught me really off guard
When I visit my Aunt’s place in Sumner I feel the same. We almost definitely won’t live there but living at the top of the valley is tempting sometimes.
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I live in Lake Tapps and the only advantage, besides having to pay nothing in terms of rent, is that when a cataclysm takes out half of Western Washington it'll still be here.
Metz you’re a spokanite? I’ve been preaching to these silly geese about the area for a while as part of my plan to turn the 5th blue but I guess they like overpaying for housing and having lousy traffic.
Having cool restaurants, not having to worry about getting shived for someones daily meth, being 300 miles from my brother. All useful things to me Knit!
I would like some money because these are artisanal nuggets of wisdom philistine.
Metz you’re a spokanite? I’ve been preaching to these silly geese about the area for a while as part of my plan to turn the 5th blue but I guess they like overpaying for housing and having lousy traffic.
Having cool restaurants, not having to worry about getting shived for someones daily meth, being 300 miles from my brother. All useful things to me Knit!
from what my dad and gram have told me, spokane has come a pretty long way in the past few years! minus the recession of course, but that was everywhere.
Metz you’re a spokanite? I’ve been preaching to these silly geese about the area for a while as part of my plan to turn the 5th blue but I guess they like overpaying for housing and having lousy traffic.
Having cool restaurants, not having to worry about getting shived for someones daily meth, being 300 miles from my brother. All useful things to me Knit!
from what my dad and gram have told me, spokane has come a pretty long way in the past few years! minus the recession of course, but that was everywhere.
Really for me its the climate. Spokane gets the extremes way more than we do on the coast.
I would like some money because these are artisanal nuggets of wisdom philistine.
I grew up in Edmonds (the shitty highway 99 part, not the nice waterfront area), and after a brief work-abroad program I'm in a North Seattle 1 bedroom apartment with wife and toddler. We want to own property but I don't think it's going to happen at this point since we like urban life too much. We are currently considering leaving the state to a less neo-liberal city, probably Portland.
So I have no doubt our governor will be a nothing blip in the democratic primary, but I'm glad someone in that primary is focused on climate change specifically and how we need to direly do something about it. Even if its Inslee.
I would like some money because these are artisanal nuggets of wisdom philistine.
How is Lynwood? My wife interviewed for a job that would have her working around there somewhere, but she looked at a crime report and had second thoughts.
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BrodyThe WatchThe First ShoreRegistered Userregular
How is Lynwood? My wife interviewed for a job that would have her working around there somewhere, but she looked at a crime report and had second thoughts.
My sister-in-law lives up around there, and I don't believe they've ever had problems. I assume its one of those "just stay out of certain area and you'll be fine" things. I think its basically the farther away from Everett you are, the better.
"I will write your name in the ruin of them. I will paint you across history in the color of their blood."
How is Lynwood? My wife interviewed for a job that would have her working around there somewhere, but she looked at a crime report and had second thoughts.
My sister-in-law lives up around there, and I don't believe they've ever had problems. I assume its one of those "just stay out of certain area and you'll be fine" things. I think its basically the farther away from Everett you are, the better.
I live up there (right along the 164th Street arterial), and aside from street racers, drivers who don't know how to use traffic circles, the usual drug paraphernalia that comes from any city of a certain size, and the occasional hate crime, things are pretty okay. I don't feel particularly threatened or in danger any more than I'd feel in any other city or rural environment.
And that's coming from somebody who has a .45 slug embedded in his garage wall (that was a fun way to call it a night when that happened). The way I see it, random acts of violence can happen pretty much anywhere when there are more than a handful of people around.
EDIT - oh, and the homeless are starting to migrate to the area. Just thought I'd toss that out there with as little value assessment attached.
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Heh, I've met Steve Hobbs a few times, he's a cool dude.
life's a game that you're bound to lose / like using a hammer to pound in screws
fuck up once and you break your thumb / if you're happy at all then you're god damn dumb
that's right we're on a fucked up cruise / God is dead but at least we have booze
bad things happen, no one knows why / the sun burns out and everyone dies
Lynnwood is a fairly normal suburb, you've got the Alderwood Mall, you've got the red light camera'd lights that will tag you for going through a yellow... They have a costco there. I want to say Weird Al made fun of it in a song once, its coo.
I would like some money because these are artisanal nuggets of wisdom philistine.
Lynnwood is a fairly normal suburb, you've got the Alderwood Mall, you've got the red light camera'd lights that will tag you for going through a yellow... They have a costco there. I want to say Weird Al made fun of it in a song once, its coo.
Most of those have been removed. There are a few lingering around...but they're not as present as they were when I first moved here.
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Lynnwood is a fairly normal suburb, you've got the Alderwood Mall, you've got the red light camera'd lights that will tag you for going through a yellow... They have a costco there. I want to say Weird Al made fun of it in a song once, its coo.
Most of those have been removed. There are a few lingering around...but they're not as present as they were when I first moved here.
They aren't? Man they used to be terrifying.
I would like some money because these are artisanal nuggets of wisdom philistine.
Oh man...all this talk of Seattle and the neighborhoods surrounding has got me in the mood for some classic regional humor.
Not sure if it's okay to link it, but Almost Live!'s Bob Nelson (awesome guy...ran into him at Sea-Tac and just had to shake his hand) did a Seattle-themed homage to Bob Dylan's "The Times They Are A Changing". I have to admit, it made me sadly nostalgic.
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-Indiana Solo, runner of blades
My history with this state is complex. My grandpa's from Walla Walla Walla actually! Him and his best friend got arrested for stumbling down the literal middle of main street, at 1 pm, on a Monday, blind ass drunk. They were in 3rf grade at the time. This was the same year my grandpa accidentally shot a hole in the floor of the sheriff's office.
Couple of my uncles almost burned down Richland apparently back in the 60s.
Grandpa and his brothers used to car-tow each other on waterskis in the irrigation canals down around Yakima apparently.
-Indiana Solo, runner of blades
I like this area. I love the mountains, I love the rain. My dad used to live up in Nine Mile and that'd be nice until you have to drive to town for groceries or whatever.
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Steam: Korvalain
Just move to Poulsbo. All the Norwegian flavor, without leaving the PNW!
This, very much this. I'm trying to move back to Washington in the next 6 months and the ideal is no further North than Tacoma. Tumwater would be great but unless I go state there's not a lot of software jobs down there.
yeah she and Heidi Groover were the last two reasons I would check in with the Stranger
now that they have anointed a successor to Dan Savage's shithead throne in the form of Katie Herzog, I don't see much reason to read the paper anymore
I follow Mudede on twitter, that's all I need from them now
I grew up in Snohomish county, in a few places along that stretch of highway 9 with a reputation for boredom and crackheads, and when I finally escaped to Seattle I was certain I'd never want to move back
I still don't, not really, but a couple winters ago I was out in Issaquah, housesitting for some people, and seeing those rolling hills, covered in trees and steam fog, made me heartsick for Granite Falls in a way that caught me really off guard
When I visit my Aunt’s place in Sumner I feel the same. We almost definitely won’t live there but living at the top of the valley is tempting sometimes.
Hope you're not a fan of metal music cause we keep losing venues :rotate:
Having cool restaurants, not having to worry about getting shived for someones daily meth, being 300 miles from my brother. All useful things to me Knit!
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from what my dad and gram have told me, spokane has come a pretty long way in the past few years! minus the recession of course, but that was everywhere.
Really for me its the climate. Spokane gets the extremes way more than we do on the coast.
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-Indiana Solo, runner of blades
It doesn't, is the thing.
So I have no doubt our governor will be a nothing blip in the democratic primary, but I'm glad someone in that primary is focused on climate change specifically and how we need to direly do something about it. Even if its Inslee.
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My sister-in-law lives up around there, and I don't believe they've ever had problems. I assume its one of those "just stay out of certain area and you'll be fine" things. I think its basically the farther away from Everett you are, the better.
The Monster Baru Cormorant - Seth Dickinson
Steam: Korvalain
I live up there (right along the 164th Street arterial), and aside from street racers, drivers who don't know how to use traffic circles, the usual drug paraphernalia that comes from any city of a certain size, and the occasional hate crime, things are pretty okay. I don't feel particularly threatened or in danger any more than I'd feel in any other city or rural environment.
And that's coming from somebody who has a .45 slug embedded in his garage wall (that was a fun way to call it a night when that happened). The way I see it, random acts of violence can happen pretty much anywhere when there are more than a handful of people around.
EDIT - oh, and the homeless are starting to migrate to the area. Just thought I'd toss that out there with as little value assessment attached.
fuck up once and you break your thumb / if you're happy at all then you're god damn dumb
that's right we're on a fucked up cruise / God is dead but at least we have booze
bad things happen, no one knows why / the sun burns out and everyone dies
pleasepaypreacher.net
Most of those have been removed. There are a few lingering around...but they're not as present as they were when I first moved here.
They aren't? Man they used to be terrifying.
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That was for Lynnwood, California. Sadly the Washington Lynnwood is not awesome enough to get Al's notice.
Not sure if it's okay to link it, but Almost Live!'s Bob Nelson (awesome guy...ran into him at Sea-Tac and just had to shake his hand) did a Seattle-themed homage to Bob Dylan's "The Times They Are A Changing". I have to admit, it made me sadly nostalgic.