Moving to Seattle - never been there before. Tell me what I'm in for?

Banana Bread wrote:

Closer but still 0.92 miles away

Got it!

It's the Kenenisa Hotel!

Totem Lake.

Moving2Seattle wrote:

Can any of you guys weigh in on Issaquah, WA?

It looks like a super nice area.. close to some great trails/parks. Houses are pricy there, but think I could swing it.

I love running on trails and looking for like a ~30-45 min commute to downtown. Do you think this would be a good spot for me?

Little late, but Issaquah would be perfect, that whole area exists for the express purpose of commuting to jobs in Seattle. There is the long Issaquah River trail that goes to Woodinville and beyond. It's a tiny river at many parts, but a nice paved path for running / cycling and a few roller-skaters!

HahaRiiiiiiight wrote:

Moving2Seattle wrote:

Can any of you guys weigh in on Issaquah, WA?

It looks like a super nice area.. close to some great trails/parks. Houses are pricy there, but think I could swing it.

I love running on trails and looking for like a ~30-45 min commute to downtown. Do you think this would be a good spot for me?

Issaquah is farther out then what you're seeing on a map - I would not want to commute from there. Try to live somewhere close enough in where you can take public transit - Seattle traffic is no joke...

Carpooling is possible, there are public vanpools too, your company may have some program to pay for your bus pass etc.

Vancouver , BC wrote:

Good; outdoors , the ocean, close to Hawaii

Bad ; Bums and Hobos , East Indian cab drivers , Condo prices, sidewalk human feces

Ugly ; Plain women with lots of make up and died hair , Bald men that wear ball caps to cover baldness.

RIP hair

Moving2Seattle wrote:

Can any of you guys weigh in on Issaquah, WA?

It looks like a super nice area.. close to some great trails/parks. Houses are pricy there, but think I could swing it.

I love running on trails and looking for like a ~30-45 min commute to downtown. Do you think this would be a good spot for me?

Issaquah might be perfect for you. It is green and beautiful. Tons of amazing trails nearby: Cougar Mountain, Tiger Mountain, Squak Mountain, trail out by Remlinger Farm in Carnation,

The Grand Ridge Trail in Issaquah Highlands (this connects up to Duthie Hill, Beaver Lake and Soaring Eagle in Sammamish), Lake Sammamish trail and on and on! I would look at the Issaquah Highlands area which is a mix of stores/restaurants, apartments, townhomes, condos, and houses. The commute isn’t bad from there and there is a huge parking structure park and ride there with an express bus into seattle. Not a bad commute at all.

the430miler wrote:

TrackCoach wrote:

That may not be a myth, but NYC might get a couple inches of rain for one day about 3 times a month, whereas, Seatle will get less than an inch per day just about everyday.

Seattle- 36 inches of rain per year

Okc- 37 inches of rain per year

Seattle does not get a huge volume of rain because it is in the "rain shadow" of the Olympic mountains to the west, that actually constitute one of the world's few temperate zone rain forests, but it is cloudy and "raining" all the time (10 months a year). I grew up down south, and down there when it rains it pours. The volume of rain over a year is a lot more than it is in Seattle, but there are a lot more sunny days.

Seattle is actually a nice climate, not often cold, not often hot, and rarely raining hard. I lived there for 7 years without owning an umbrella. But its rainy or looks like rain a lot of the time, and that gets on some people.

It's fantastic weather for running and there are lots of huge uncongested parks to run in that have great scenery too.

Sorry bout that wrote:

Vancouver , BC wrote:

Good; outdoors , the ocean, close to Hawaii

Bad ; Bums and Hobos , East Indian cab drivers , Condo prices, sidewalk human feces

Ugly ; Plain women with lots of make up and died hair , Bald men that wear ball caps to cover baldness.

RIP hair

Fortunately, there's still Seattle Hairy Girls.

Ding ding ding ding and finally a winner. I'll be your letsrun slave now for the rest of the year.

Hardloper wrote:

Seattle is the cloudiest city in the USA though

Perfect weather for runners, terrible weather for hobby joggers.

Imiun Liu owns several businesses in Seattle such as the Eastern Café in the International District, where he says crimes involving the homeless are so common that he and other business owners can’t help but feel defeated by the RVs and tents surrounding their stores.

“We’ve all given up on calling 911. Nobody even thinks that the police will ever show up or do anything, and even if they do actually catch somebody, we know they’re going to come back the next day,” said Liu…

“Our employees walk over needles, trash, human waste,” said Denise Merle with Weyerhaeuser.

“(It’s) the third consecutive day that my employee got her tip jar stolen with no response from the police. She got fed up and chased the guy down the street herself and was assaulted,” said Lois Ko, owner of Sweet Alchemy.

http://mynorthwest.com/1148563/seattle-business-owners-fed-up-with-problems-stemming-from-homeless-crisis/

Probably can expect to be shot and raped most days. But you can go to a diner and have lots of coffee refills like in the movies.

Gretchen Taylor makes the case that people living in one of Seattle’s tiny house areas (Licton Springs, which will be closed in a few months) are drug addicts who aren’t looking for a way out because the addiction is all that matters to them. She argues that dealing with homelessness in the city means helping people conquer addiction, not turning the city into a free-for-all where residents are expected to simply put up with the crime and the filth that goes with thousands of addicted adults living on the streets.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KpAFPto5l-s

turning the city into a free-for-all where residents are expected to simply put up with the crime and the filth that goes with thousands of addicted adults living on the streets.

Well, said tolerance (of crime/filth) is effectively the European route. Welcome to Northwest USA.

kibitzer wrote:

Not widely known, but still true: In a typical year Seattle gets less rain than NYC.

Let's go to the facts!

Seattle - 37.49 inches per year

New York City - 46.23 inches per year

So, you sir, are CORRECT!

Flagpole wrote:

kibitzer wrote:

Not widely known, but still true: In a typical year Seattle gets less rain than NYC.

Let's go to the facts!

Seattle - 37.49 inches per year

New York City - 46.23 inches per year

So, you sir, are CORRECT!

Global Warming will change this (somehow).

37.7 inches (958mm) is actually low by USA standards.

113 Atlanta, Georgia 49.7 1263

88 Austin, Texas 34.2 870

116 Baltimore, Maryland 41.9 1064

117 Birmingham, Alabama 53.7 1364

126 Boston, Massachusetts 43.8 1112

167 Buffalo, New York 40.5 1028

110 Charlotte, North Carolina 41.6 1057

124 Chicago, Illinois 36.9 937

137 Cincinnati, Ohio 41.9 1065

155 Cleveland, Ohio 39.1 994

139 Columbus, Ohio 39.3 998

81 Dallas, Texas 37.6 954

87 Denver, Colorado 15.6 396

135 Detroit, Michigan 33.5 850

130 Hartford, Connecticut 45.9 1165

104 Houston, Texas 49.8 1264

129 Indianapolis, Indiana 42.4 1078

Days City Inches Milli­metres

114 Jacksonville, Florida 52.4 1331

91 Kansas City, Missouri 39.1 992

27 Las Vegas, Nevada 4.2 106

36 Los Angeles, California 12.8 326

123 Louisville, Kentucky 44.9 1141

108 Memphis, Tennessee 53.7 1363

135 Miami, Florida 61.9 1572

127 Milwaukee, Wisconsin 34.8 883

117 Minneapolis, Minnesota 30.6 777

119 Nashville, Tennessee 47.3 1200

115 New Orleans, Louisiana 62.7 1592

122 New York, New York 49.9 1268

84 Oklahoma City, Oklahoma 36.5 928

117 Orlando, Florida 50.7 1289

118 Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 41.5 1055

30 Phoenix, Arizona 8.2 208

151 Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania 38.2 970

Days City Inches Milli­metres

164 Portland, Oregon 43.5 1104

125 Providence, Rhode Island 47.2 1198

100 Raleigh, North Carolina 46.0 1169

114 Richmond, Virginia 43.6 1107

30 Riverside, California 10.3 262

167 Rochester, New York 34.3 870

60 Sacramento, California 18.5 470

96 Salt Lake City, Utah 16.1 409

83 San Antonio, Texas 32.3 820

42 San Diego, California 10.3 263

68 San Francisco, California 20.7 525

62 San Jose, California 15.8 402

149 Seattle, Washington 37.7 958

113 St. Louis, Missouri 41.0 1040

105 Tampa, Florida 46.3 1176

117 Virginia Beach, Virginia 46.5 1182

114 Washington, DC 39.7 1009

Barely beat Dallas wrote:

Days City Inches Milli­metres

122 New York, New York 49.9 1268

Days City Inches Milli­metres

149 Seattle, Washington 37.7 958

The important number is not quantity, but frequency. Seattle has 149 days of rain, NYC only 122.