It has been fun watching the Lynnwood housing market slingshot over the past year. Our house's estimated value is up 14% from when we bought it a year ago. The 3 houses in our neighborhood that went up over the past month are either sold or have pending offers. The nicest is a 1200sqft place that went for 100k over asking at 650k. The 900sqft house on a 15,0000 sqft lot is pending for 500k and the extremely dated foreclosure looks to be selling for around 550k.
Depending on the lot size developers are going to buy those up, smash whatevers there and then make like 10 million on the sub development they put on it
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Its everywhere in Bothell. Every moderate house/lot is bought up and parcel'd out for the six to 7 figure income set. All the houses look the same, all the developments are like cookie cutter. Its frustrating. I mean its literally gentrification in its purest form, but it sucks when you're the one being gentrified
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Its everywhere in Bothell. Every moderate house/lot is bought up and parcel'd out for the six to 7 figure income set. All the houses look the same, all the developments are like cookie cutter. Its frustrating. I mean its literally gentrification in its purest form, but it sucks when you're the one being gentrified
It's been wild keeping an eye on Port Orchard, houses are now selling from $5-$30/sf more than we paid and we closed in March. There are some houses in our area starting to push a million dollars on tiny lots. Look, I get these are nice, new, big houses, but it's Port Orchard and not anywhere near a water view.
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Same. Edmonds is out of goddamn control now. My condo I moved in last march is already up 6.5% according to Redfin, and similarly configured condos (2bd2bath ~1000 sq ft) are going for at least 360k and up if not 400k for the newer units. Houses are pretty much untouchable for anyone not making 100k+ with a massive down payment. Cheapest ones I can find that don't require massive updates/rehab loans are around 480k and just go up from there. I'm amazed I managed to snag out my unit for $315k when I did right before the pandemic shut everything down.
Same. Edmonds is out of goddamn control now. My condo I moved in last march is already up 6.5% according to Redfin, and similarly configured condos (2bd2bath ~1000 sq ft) are going for at least 360k and up if not 400k for the newer units. Houses are pretty much untouchable for anyone not making 100k+ with a massive down payment. Cheapest ones I can find that don't require massive updates/rehab loans are around 480k and just go up from there. I'm amazed I managed to snag out my unit for $315k when I did right before the pandemic shut everything down.
Yeah I talked to a guy who'd made multiple gutted (no protections) buyers offers north of a million and been turned down on rehab properties! Its insane.
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I banked almost $30k in the past year, living frugally, looking to do a downpayment and have been outpaced by the market. I really want to stay in Seattle, but I'm fast approaching the point in my life I want to not be worried about a landlord deciding I can't live in my place next month more.
Letting in 9k unvaccinated, just seems incredibly incredibly stupid.
Well I think its less they aren't vaccinated and more they aren't being checked. But lets be honest as bad as the ms are right now 22k fans at a game is a big ask.
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On a losing streak, they've won like 2 games in the last 6, and narrowly avoided getting perfect gamed this week by a team that's below .500. And losing again tonight. And this is before the June skid.
I stand corrected they came back tonight, but everything else was true!
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Letting in 9k unvaccinated, just seems incredibly incredibly stupid.
The Sounders have had 7k fans for their first 2 home games so far, not sure on the M's attendance. They've had fans pretty well scattered around the light (is that the new nickname for Lumen field?), as the typical seating config for Sounders is somewhere around 45k. The vaccinated fan sections are going to be in addition to what they've already had open but in separated sections, the team informed the supporters groups that at least 1 section of the 3 reserved for the ECS will be a vaccinated fan section. Also, the Sounders and Mariners are now offering walk up vaccinations at the stadiums before, during, and after the games (but the vaccinated fan sections are only for people who have been fully vaccinated, including the 2 weeks after the 2nd or J&J shot). There were 91 vaccinations at the last Sounders match (the first time they've offered in stadium shots).
King County and the rest if the I-5 corridor can do all you like to encourage electric vehicles and public transit, you’ve got the density to support both.
The rest of us don’t.
You don't need density for EVs.
this is from awhile back but this is true, in fact density is mutually exclusive with widespread EV use
that's true of all cars
that doesn't stop being true just by changing the fuel source, especially when you go from a type of vehicle that refuels in ~5 minutes to one that refuels in ~45 minutes
I guess today we're going to get an incentive from the governor to get vaccinated (hopefully backdated to the already vaxxed like other states have done) I have noticed at the local grocery stores mask signs now say "for the unvaccinated its encouraged to wear a mask" and I'm seeing more and more people without.
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I've seen a large number of unmasked in Kitsap county, and given the vaccination rates in the county, I feel safe saying the majority of non-mask wearers are not vaccinated.
I guess today we're going to get an incentive from the governor to get vaccinated (hopefully backdated to the already vaxxed like other states have done) I have noticed at the local grocery stores mask signs now say "for the unvaccinated its encouraged to wear a mask" and I'm seeing more and more people without.
Yeah I saw that sign too, that's pretty bogus imo. It's encouraged for vaccinated people, it should be required for everyone else. Meh
I've seen a large number of unmasked in Kitsap county, and given the vaccination rates in the county, I feel safe saying the majority of non-mask wearers are not vaccinated.
That's kind of the problem with honor system on masks, we have bad actors who will be ahem "masked" by good actors.
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Well, whomever made that table sucks then. Cause the table definitely have Washington at number 1. But then reading and scrolling more, I do see they decided not to show data for states already above the 70% mark.
Very misleading table there, NYT data science person
Yeah the honor system is hitting my red area hard the last month ish. Case rate is well above the threshold i think but hospitalizations arent high thankfully for now.
There is the lottery info. Its the same as other states. But in terms of chance to win 1 mil in a lottery it seems like the odds are better than most lotteries heh.
Lottery cash drawings, with prizes totaling $2 million
Higher education tuition and expense assistance
Sports tickets and gear
Gift cards
Airline tickets
Game systems and smart speakers
Spoilers for the actual list of things you can win!
Cash prizes
Starting next week, the Lottery will conduct one drawing for $250,000 every week for four weeks for all vaccinated individuals. At the end of the four weeks, there will be an additional, final drawing for a $1 million prize.
Vaccinated Washingtonians don’t need to do anything to be entered in the four drawings. The Lottery will automatically gather names from the DOH statewide immunization database.
The governor was joined by Marcus Glasper, director of the Washington State Lottery, for the announcement.
“Washington’s Lottery is proud to partner with the Governor’s Office and the Department of Health on this important promotion,” Glasper said. “As the state’s principal agency on conducting lottery drawings, we are honored to be able to play even a small role in administering a promotion that helps ensure that our state’s residents are healthy and protected as we continue to move towards ending the pandemic.”
Higher education assistance
Inslee also announced a suite of higher education incentives, including tuition and book assistance at institutions across the state.
Nearly $1 million will be dispersed directly to the public four-year universities and two-year community and technical colleges to run their own drawing for free tuition and expenses for vaccinated students.
The state will also be offering 30 prizes of one year of tuition college credits to 12–17-year-olds through the Guaranteed Education Tuition (GET program). These credits will go directly to families.
Tickets
Also included in the incentives announced today are various ticket prizes offered by Washington companies and sports teams.
Potential prizes include:
Alaska Airlines
2 free airline tickets to anywhere Alaska flies
Seattle Mariners
4 tickets to an upcoming game
Full suite to an upcoming game
Seattle Sounders
4 tickets to a game in August, plus two autographed jerseys
Seattle Storm
10 tickets a game for the rest of the season
Seattle Seahawks
4 club level seats, plus parking passes
Seattle Kraken
Concert tickets
OL Reign
Four 2021 season tickets, plus a team-signed jersey
Game systems and smart speakers
The governor also announced that several technology companies are offering technology and software to help the state’s efforts to get people vaccinated.
Microsoft will be giving away 300 Xboxs and GamePasses to vaccinated individuals, and Nintendo will be giving away Nintendo Switches. Google will give away 25 Google Nests and Amazon will be giving away 100 Echo Dots.
Gift Cards
In addition to the above incentives, the Washington State Department of Commerce partnering with the Association of Washington Business (AWB) and local Chambers of Commerce will be purchasing $1 million of gift cards to local businesses through local chambers of commerce to be given away at vaccine locations. Commerce and AWB will be sharing additional details soon about the locations and dates where this program will roll out.
The Washington State Department of Health will also have $500,000 in gift cards to give away over the summer as part of their Care-a-Van mobile vaccination effort. The gift cards will be for different kinds of retail offerings — from groceries to fishing gear to top soil.
The Washington State Parks will also be giving away 80 “one week of free camping” gift cards, worth $250 each, and the Washington Department for Fish and Wildlife will be giving away 80 $100 gift certificates for fishing and hunting licenses. Also included will be 400 Discover Passes, which allow access to recreation on State public lands.
“Choices have consequences. The vaccine is our best and safest chance to get back to pre-pandemic levels of activity,” Inslee said. “It is a personal choice, but one that affects the lives of millions. The choices we make affect our neighbors, our friends and our families. So, I hope more people make the right choice, to learn more about the safety and efficacy of the vaccine, and to get vaccinated.”
If you or a loved one has yet to get vaccinated, make an appointment at VaccineLocator.doh.wa.gov.
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I would like some money because these are artisanal nuggets of wisdom philistine.
Lottery cash drawings, with prizes totaling $2 million
Higher education tuition and expense assistance
Sports tickets and gear
Gift cards
Airline tickets
Game systems and smart speakers
The, "Sports tickets and gear" should've included a disclaimer, "EXCEPT MARINERS TICKETS THOUGH!"
Lottery cash drawings, with prizes totaling $2 million
Higher education tuition and expense assistance
Sports tickets and gear
Gift cards
Airline tickets
Game systems and smart speakers
The, "Sports tickets and gear" should've included a disclaimer, "EXCEPT MARINERS TICKETS THOUGH!"
They are listed but it feels like a punishment. Though I do hear mariners have a vaccinated section at games with tvs that let you watch a more competent baseball team at the park.
I would like some money because these are artisanal nuggets of wisdom philistine.
Lottery cash drawings, with prizes totaling $2 million
Higher education tuition and expense assistance
Sports tickets and gear
Gift cards
Airline tickets
Game systems and smart speakers
The, "Sports tickets and gear" should've included a disclaimer, "EXCEPT MARINERS TICKETS THOUGH!"
They are listed but it feels like a punishment. Though I do hear mariners have a vaccinated section at games with tvs that let you watch a more competent baseball team at the park.
Lottery cash drawings, with prizes totaling $2 million
Higher education tuition and expense assistance
Sports tickets and gear
Gift cards
Airline tickets
Game systems and smart speakers
The, "Sports tickets and gear" should've included a disclaimer, "EXCEPT MARINERS TICKETS THOUGH!"
They are listed but it feels like a punishment. Though I do hear mariners have a vaccinated section at games with tvs that let you watch a more competent baseball team at the park.
If I win some Ms tickets preach you can have em
I'd still go Safeco is a beautiful park and my son likes watching me play the show 21. But I'd just go in to enjoy the other team beating them I guess, unless it was the stros. Fuck those trashcan motherfuckers.
I would like some money because these are artisanal nuggets of wisdom philistine.
Lottery cash drawings, with prizes totaling $2 million
Higher education tuition and expense assistance
Sports tickets and gear
Gift cards
Airline tickets
Game systems and smart speakers
The, "Sports tickets and gear" should've included a disclaimer, "EXCEPT MARINERS TICKETS THOUGH!"
They are listed but it feels like a punishment. Though I do hear mariners have a vaccinated section at games with tvs that let you watch a more competent baseball team at the park.
If I win some Ms tickets preach you can have em
I'd still go Safeco is a beautiful park and my son likes watching me play the show 21. But I'd just go in to enjoy the other team beating them I guess, unless it was the stros. Fuck those trashcan motherfuckers.
Well yeah I went to a Padres game one time that wasnt against the Ms I was just in San Diego under the same circumstance heh. Ive been to all the stadiums on the west coast for MLB. Safeco is still my fav even if its my home team. Petco was probably my close second. Couldnt pay me to go back to Oakland heh.
Looks like you don't have to do anything to be entered, which is nice. I mean, you have to get vaccinated, but nothing beyond that. And it doesn't matter if you're already vaccinated, it's not just new people.
Looks like you don't have to do anything to be entered, which is nice. I mean, you have to get vaccinated, but nothing beyond that. And it doesn't matter if you're already vaccinated, it's not just new people.
Yeah that's how other states did it, that the already vaccinated are rewarded for being cool. Not that I needed the nudge, but its nice that being mindful of others wasn't punished.
I would like some money because these are artisanal nuggets of wisdom philistine.
Lottery cash drawings, with prizes totaling $2 million
Higher education tuition and expense assistance
Sports tickets and gear
Gift cards
Airline tickets
Game systems and smart speakers
The, "Sports tickets and gear" should've included a disclaimer, "EXCEPT MARINERS TICKETS THOUGH!"
They are listed but it feels like a punishment. Though I do hear mariners have a vaccinated section at games with tvs that let you watch a more competent baseball team at the park.
If I win some Ms tickets preach you can have em
I'd still go Safeco is a beautiful park and my son likes watching me play the show 21. But I'd just go in to enjoy the other team beating them I guess, unless it was the stros. Fuck those trashcan motherfuckers.
Well yeah I went to a Padres game one time that wasnt against the Ms I was just in San Diego under the same circumstance heh. Ive been to all the stadiums on the west coast for MLB. Safeco is still my fav even if its my home team. Petco was probably my close second. Couldnt pay me to go back to Oakland heh.
I want to visit all the active ball parks just one time. Just to say I've been. Rangers Stadium looks like a trip.
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I'm kinda surprised that no one has sued on a seperation of church and state thing for this yet. Like, "my religion says gambling is a sin and the government is forcing me to gamble by entering me in the lottery drawing" kinda thing
I love that the state is buying $1 mil worth of gift cards to Washington state businesses. It would have been nice to see them do something similar a year ago to try to save existing businesses, but that will be a nice boost to local small business.
I love that the state is buying $1 mil worth of gift cards to Washington state businesses. It would have been nice to see them do something similar a year ago to try to save existing businesses, but that will be a nice boost to local small business.
Probably didn't have the funds to do it a year ago. But now that they have a federal government actually helping they can open up their budget more.
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Depending on the lot size developers are going to buy those up, smash whatevers there and then make like 10 million on the sub development they put on it
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Its everywhere in Bothell. Every moderate house/lot is bought up and parcel'd out for the six to 7 figure income set. All the houses look the same, all the developments are like cookie cutter. Its frustrating. I mean its literally gentrification in its purest form, but it sucks when you're the one being gentrified
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It's been wild keeping an eye on Port Orchard, houses are now selling from $5-$30/sf more than we paid and we closed in March. There are some houses in our area starting to push a million dollars on tiny lots. Look, I get these are nice, new, big houses, but it's Port Orchard and not anywhere near a water view.
* Walking commute includes long ass ferry ride
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Yeah I talked to a guy who'd made multiple gutted (no protections) buyers offers north of a million and been turned down on rehab properties! Its insane.
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Meanwhile the Sounders and Mariners will be opening up vaccinated fan sections soon (up to 22k fans total at games, 9k max unvaccinated).
Well I think its less they aren't vaccinated and more they aren't being checked. But lets be honest as bad as the ms are right now 22k fans at a game is a big ask.
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They’re second in the division right now
-Indiana Solo, runner of blades
On a losing streak, they've won like 2 games in the last 6, and narrowly avoided getting perfect gamed this week by a team that's below .500. And losing again tonight. And this is before the June skid.
I stand corrected they came back tonight, but everything else was true!
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The Sounders have had 7k fans for their first 2 home games so far, not sure on the M's attendance. They've had fans pretty well scattered around the light (is that the new nickname for Lumen field?), as the typical seating config for Sounders is somewhere around 45k. The vaccinated fan sections are going to be in addition to what they've already had open but in separated sections, the team informed the supporters groups that at least 1 section of the 3 reserved for the ECS will be a vaccinated fan section. Also, the Sounders and Mariners are now offering walk up vaccinations at the stadiums before, during, and after the games (but the vaccinated fan sections are only for people who have been fully vaccinated, including the 2 weeks after the 2nd or J&J shot). There were 91 vaccinations at the last Sounders match (the first time they've offered in stadium shots).
I think going to games should be a carrot type incentive. Plus it's just smart for public health anyways
this is from awhile back but this is true, in fact density is mutually exclusive with widespread EV use
that's true of all cars
that doesn't stop being true just by changing the fuel source, especially when you go from a type of vehicle that refuels in ~5 minutes to one that refuels in ~45 minutes
https://seattle.eater.com/2021/5/13/22434556/seattle-breweries-host-vaccine-pop-up-clinics-discounted-beer
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2021/06/03/us/virus-vaccine-states.html
Edit: not number one, misleading data table, I am shamed
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Yeah I saw that sign too, that's pretty bogus imo. It's encouraged for vaccinated people, it should be required for everyone else. Meh
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That's kind of the problem with honor system on masks, we have bad actors who will be ahem "masked" by good actors.
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477 per 100k!
Vermont is. Washington is doing ok but there are many states that have a higher % of adults with at least 1 dose, and % of adults fully vaccinated.
Very misleading table there, NYT data science person
I was looking at the data table, not the charts.
Those graphs are also much further down in the article. I just wanted the data so once I saw the data table, I stopped reading it
Edit:
https://www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news/health/inslee-more-than-2-million-in-prizes-for-washington-residents-getting-their-covid-19-vaccine/
There is the lottery info. Its the same as other states. But in terms of chance to win 1 mil in a lottery it seems like the odds are better than most lotteries heh.
WOO I CAN LOSE SOMETHING ELSE NOW!
Spoilers for the actual list of things you can win!
Cash prizes
Starting next week, the Lottery will conduct one drawing for $250,000 every week for four weeks for all vaccinated individuals. At the end of the four weeks, there will be an additional, final drawing for a $1 million prize.
Vaccinated Washingtonians don’t need to do anything to be entered in the four drawings. The Lottery will automatically gather names from the DOH statewide immunization database.
The governor was joined by Marcus Glasper, director of the Washington State Lottery, for the announcement.
“Washington’s Lottery is proud to partner with the Governor’s Office and the Department of Health on this important promotion,” Glasper said. “As the state’s principal agency on conducting lottery drawings, we are honored to be able to play even a small role in administering a promotion that helps ensure that our state’s residents are healthy and protected as we continue to move towards ending the pandemic.”
Higher education assistance
Inslee also announced a suite of higher education incentives, including tuition and book assistance at institutions across the state.
Nearly $1 million will be dispersed directly to the public four-year universities and two-year community and technical colleges to run their own drawing for free tuition and expenses for vaccinated students.
The state will also be offering 30 prizes of one year of tuition college credits to 12–17-year-olds through the Guaranteed Education Tuition (GET program). These credits will go directly to families.
Tickets
Also included in the incentives announced today are various ticket prizes offered by Washington companies and sports teams.
Potential prizes include:
Alaska Airlines
2 free airline tickets to anywhere Alaska flies
Seattle Mariners
4 tickets to an upcoming game
Full suite to an upcoming game
Seattle Sounders
4 tickets to a game in August, plus two autographed jerseys
Seattle Storm
10 tickets a game for the rest of the season
Seattle Seahawks
4 club level seats, plus parking passes
Seattle Kraken
Concert tickets
OL Reign
Four 2021 season tickets, plus a team-signed jersey
Game systems and smart speakers
The governor also announced that several technology companies are offering technology and software to help the state’s efforts to get people vaccinated.
Microsoft will be giving away 300 Xboxs and GamePasses to vaccinated individuals, and Nintendo will be giving away Nintendo Switches. Google will give away 25 Google Nests and Amazon will be giving away 100 Echo Dots.
Gift Cards
In addition to the above incentives, the Washington State Department of Commerce partnering with the Association of Washington Business (AWB) and local Chambers of Commerce will be purchasing $1 million of gift cards to local businesses through local chambers of commerce to be given away at vaccine locations. Commerce and AWB will be sharing additional details soon about the locations and dates where this program will roll out.
The Washington State Department of Health will also have $500,000 in gift cards to give away over the summer as part of their Care-a-Van mobile vaccination effort. The gift cards will be for different kinds of retail offerings — from groceries to fishing gear to top soil.
The Washington State Parks will also be giving away 80 “one week of free camping” gift cards, worth $250 each, and the Washington Department for Fish and Wildlife will be giving away 80 $100 gift certificates for fishing and hunting licenses. Also included will be 400 Discover Passes, which allow access to recreation on State public lands.
“Choices have consequences. The vaccine is our best and safest chance to get back to pre-pandemic levels of activity,” Inslee said. “It is a personal choice, but one that affects the lives of millions. The choices we make affect our neighbors, our friends and our families. So, I hope more people make the right choice, to learn more about the safety and efficacy of the vaccine, and to get vaccinated.”
If you or a loved one has yet to get vaccinated, make an appointment at VaccineLocator.doh.wa.gov.
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The, "Sports tickets and gear" should've included a disclaimer, "EXCEPT MARINERS TICKETS THOUGH!"
They are listed but it feels like a punishment. Though I do hear mariners have a vaccinated section at games with tvs that let you watch a more competent baseball team at the park.
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If I win some Ms tickets preach you can have em
I'd still go Safeco is a beautiful park and my son likes watching me play the show 21. But I'd just go in to enjoy the other team beating them I guess, unless it was the stros. Fuck those trashcan motherfuckers.
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Well yeah I went to a Padres game one time that wasnt against the Ms I was just in San Diego under the same circumstance heh. Ive been to all the stadiums on the west coast for MLB. Safeco is still my fav even if its my home team. Petco was probably my close second. Couldnt pay me to go back to Oakland heh.
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Yeah that's how other states did it, that the already vaccinated are rewarded for being cool. Not that I needed the nudge, but its nice that being mindful of others wasn't punished.
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I want to visit all the active ball parks just one time. Just to say I've been. Rangers Stadium looks like a trip.
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Probably didn't have the funds to do it a year ago. But now that they have a federal government actually helping they can open up their budget more.
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