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Old 07-19-2011, 06:45 PM
 
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Thank y'all SO much!!! Everyone has been a huge help. We are very excited! We have found several apartments in shoreline, lake forest park and magnolia that seem to fit, but we are of course looking into other areas y'all have suggested. Keep any suggestions coming!
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Old 07-20-2011, 10:41 PM
 
Location: Chicago
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Don't be worried about the "bad" neighborhoods of the Seattle area. Even the very worst neighborhoods in Seattle are Disneyland compared to actual ghettos and the actual most dangerous neighborhoods in the country. That said, the places I personally would never want to live is Tacoma and the surrounding area, a couple parts of west Seattle and certain parts of south Seattle. By your description I'd live in the suburb of Redmond, only a short drive from Seattle (though you now have to pay a toll to cross the bridge), or just live somewhere around downtown Seattle or north Seattle.
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Old 07-24-2011, 05:22 PM
 
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Yet another reason to move from Texas. It is 6:15 and still 104 outside.... No rain in 4 months. My hometown has had no rain in 300 days and have to have water trucked in by the national guard. This and many other reasons. We cannot wait for the Seattle area!!!
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Old 07-24-2011, 07:51 PM
 
Location: Littlerock, WA
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Its really too far to commute from Olympia to Seattle for work (I did it for a couple months, around 1.5 hr each way unless you can avoid typical commute hours) but I have to say I love living in Thurston County. It has all the beauty the Pacific Northwest has to offer, without the crowding and high cost of living you get in a metro area. Schools are good, people are friendly, and if I want to go to Seattle for an event or shopping, its not far. Small town / rural life is wonderful in Littlerock, WA south of Tumwater. mod cut:

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Old 07-25-2011, 08:59 AM
 
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Here is another question- we have been given the option of moving in January or waiting until May. Any opinions? Advice? We can go either way... just wanting to see if there are opinions on why to wait or why to go in Jan.? thanks so much!
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Old 07-25-2011, 10:26 AM
 
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January is cold, rainy and 8 hours of daylight. May is not so cold, not so rainy and a few more hours of daylight.
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Old 07-25-2011, 11:48 AM
 
Location: Denville, NJ
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Summer is definitely the nicer season in WA. However, do you want to use your summer getting moved in, adjusted, and still getting to know people and the area? Or would you rather do that during the months prior, and then truly being able to enjoy some great things to do in the summer? Comes down to your personal preference really, but if it were me, I would like to get all my mandatory adjustments made early on and then have plans for the summer after getting familiar and making some good connections in the mean time.
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Old 07-25-2011, 02:29 PM
 
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Summer is definitely the nicer season in WA. However, do you want to use your summer getting moved in, adjusted, and still getting to know people and the area? Or would you rather do that during the months prior, and then truly being able to enjoy some great things to do in the summer? Comes down to your personal preference really, but if it were me, I would like to get all my mandatory adjustments made early on and then have plans for the summer after getting familiar and making some good connections in the mean time.
OP said May - not summer - moving here in May will give her at least two months to get ready for summer
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Old 07-25-2011, 04:03 PM
 
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I'd go in January rather than May. why? If you're coming from a place that gets a lot of heat, it's probably already pretty hot in May, and you come to Seattle and say " It's cool, it's cloudy, it's so refreshing away from that char griller that is ( Texas, Alabama, Arizona, South Carolina, etc)...And then the short summer Seattle has disppaears, and you experience 42 degrees and fairly constant rain for a couple of months, where it gets light late and dark early, and you say " **** this ****!"
But if you come in January, it's not going to get much worse, you'll know what you're in for.
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Old 07-25-2011, 07:41 PM
 
Location: Yakima, Wa
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As a Washingtonian who lived in Texas for 8 years, I would suggest that if you're going to live in the Seattle area and want to minimize culture shock you might want to live in areas like Tukwilla, Renton, Des Moines, or Kent that other posters don't recommend, because they seem closer to average America than some other areas in Seattle that are full of hippies, artists, professors, alternative lifestyle (gay) people that you might feel uncomfortable living around in large quantities. Mountlake Terrace is another "all american" kind of place that is north of Seattle, unlike most of the others being to the south.

Areas to the east of Seattle like Kirkland and Bellevue are too expensive for most people to live in anymore.
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