Seattle

anyone live there?

We have a great local newspaper called Real Change. It's like the NYT of Seattle.

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Locals, give me the run down. What's it like?

Mountain biking / trail running?

I've lived in the Bay Area for the last 7 years and am fairly burnt out on homeless people. Are there a lot in Seattle?

Where would you live if you worked in downtown Seattle? How's the commute from various spots.

Yes, lots of homeless people downtown and the commute generally sucks. If you move somewhere near a good bus line and are working downtown it's not too bad. If you have to drive for whatever reason it sucks. There are lots of apartments and condos downtown, but it is expensive to have a car there.

Plenty of great mountain biking and trail running when you get out of town, don't have to go far to find it.

rip guy at safeway on the ave

"Real Change?"

"Good day sir"

Surprise! wrote:

Locals, give me the run down. What's it like?

Mountain biking / trail running?

I've lived in the Bay Area for the last 7 years and am fairly burnt out on homeless people. Are there a lot in Seattle?

Where would you live if you worked in downtown Seattle? How's the commute from various spots.

There are a lot of homeless people in Seattle. Beautiful city though.

I would NEVER live in Seattle. Most certainly around there, the places have excellent trails, lots of them, but not in Seattle itself.

Then again, I'm just not a "city" guy.

If I were working in Seattle, I would probably live in Renton...

Seattle actually does have a lot of dirt/gravel trails mixed in with city in parks. You have to know how to get to them, and depending on where you live you might have to drive or bike there if you want all of your runs to be trail.

I live about a mile north of UW and the commute to SLU is about 30 minutes most days during rush hour. If I leave before or after rush hour it's about 10-15 minutes. I like the area I live in because it's easy to get to some good running spots (Green Lake, the Burke, and Ravenna Park) and the local track where workouts are held.

If you're a competitive runner it's a really great place honestly. I ran a local road 5K last year (1287 finishers, no prize money) and in 18:51 I was 19th woman. I know this invites a lot of jokes about being really slow, blah blah blah, but back in Maryland that kind of depth at a local race was basically unheard of. CNW is awesome, it is basically my second family, and if I ever need to leave for work or school I will be very sad.

Outside of running, Seattle is a city of neighborhoods, which means that each neighborhood has its own unique atmosphere. The only real way to know where you'll fit in is to visit some of the neighborhoods.

Also, it is very bikeable. Hilly, but bikeable. I just learned how to ride a bicycle last year (like, at all, in a parking lot) and I don't feel scared riding around the roads here. Lots of bike lanes. Cars are really nice.

And it's safe as sh*t compared to most cities. I can go running at 5AM or 10PM and not feel nervous.

I lived in seattle for 7 years but its boring and the weather sucks so I moved back to the bay area. there are lots of long boring trails great for training. There are great trail runs in the cascades but they are under snow 9 months a year.

The mountain biking is pretty legit.

My advice, visit for a week in april check out discovery park burke gilman colunmnade tiger mountain cougar mountain to get a good vibe of the local area.