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I live on the East side of the State...Yes, there is a LOT of disdain for the Wetsiders...We can't trap a mole because traps have been outlawed. I was raised as a kid over there...
Traffic...wow, you can't imagine how bad it is. 1 hour to go about 15 miles is average during daylight hours.
Many coommuters live over here and are driving our real estate prices thru the roof because they work from home, fire fighters, pilots all making about double or more than the mean wage here...come over with suburban beliefs to farm land. All want 3 acres that they don't take care of (weeds), don't like farm equipment running at day break, etc.
Anyway, real estate prices have literally gone thru the roof within 2 hour commute of Seattle. Friends that live there send me pics of real estate signs with a 1.5mil house that less than 5 years ago was 500K... true story...
They seem to all come over here for weekends/vacation and love to "let loose"...and the trails and roads are closing due to abuse and overuse and lack of money to keep them open because of all the frivolous lawsuits.
Still overall probably the most beautiful part of the entire country and I've visited a lot of it. Mtns to the East and West, salt water bordering the city, freshwater lakes all over, one poisonous (east side only), only one real poisonous spider, etc...easy to live here...WAS easy to live here.
Used to be fun to go fishing...that's all we did on weekends and vacations for decades...literally! Now it's just a battle...try launching your boat with dozens of people who can't back a trailer up... lol hundreds of boats at every fishing hole. People throw crap at each other as they cut them off when trolling.... get's ugly. I don't salmon fish on the "wet" side any more ...not worth it.
Sorry I rambled on but unless you are making enough money to retire in 5 years it isn't worth the traffic & real estate...
Traffic...wow, you can't imagine how bad it is. 1 hour to go about 15 miles is average during daylight hours.
Many coommuters live over here and are driving our real estate prices thru the roof because they work from home, fire fighters, pilots all making about double or more than the mean wage here...come over with suburban beliefs to farm land. All want 3 acres that they don't take care of (weeds), don't like farm equipment running at day break, etc.
Anyway, real estate prices have literally gone thru the roof within 2 hour commute of Seattle. Friends that live there send me pics of real estate signs with a 1.5mil house that less than 5 years ago was 500K... true story...
They seem to all come over here for weekends/vacation and love to "let loose"...and the trails and roads are closing due to abuse and overuse and lack of money to keep them open because of all the frivolous lawsuits.
Still overall probably the most beautiful part of the entire country and I've visited a lot of it. Mtns to the East and West, salt water bordering the city, freshwater lakes all over, one poisonous (east side only), only one real poisonous spider, etc...easy to live here...WAS easy to live here.
Used to be fun to go fishing...that's all we did on weekends and vacations for decades...literally! Now it's just a battle...try launching your boat with dozens of people who can't back a trailer up... lol hundreds of boats at every fishing hole. People throw crap at each other as they cut them off when trolling.... get's ugly. I don't salmon fish on the "wet" side any more ...not worth it.
Sorry I rambled on but unless you are making enough money to retire in 5 years it isn't worth the traffic & real estate...