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[spotlesseden]

Originally Posted by Andy Patrizio

The Silicon Valley is screwing up the whole area. Flooding the region with a lot of $100k engineers just wrecked rents. I lived in Belmont and paid $1250 for a nice place. I checked back, it's now $1850. That's the price for being 1 mile from Oracle, I guess.

Eastside rent is getting more and more expensive now. There are many 100k engineers in the Eastside too. Atleast, buying a house/condo in/near downtown Bellevue is a great investment. haha

if they are going to build that East Link Light rail(run from Seattle through Mercer Island and Bellevue before ending in Redmond), it will good for the housing price for Bellevue, Redmond, Mercer Island.

[BellevueNative]

Originally Posted by spotlesseden

Eastside rent is getting more and more expensive now. There are many 100k engineers in the Eastside too. Atleast, buying a house/condo in/near downtown Bellevue is a great investment. haha

if they are going to build that East Link Light rail(run from Seattle through Mercer Island and Bellevue before ending in Redmond), it will good for the housing price for Bellevue, Redmond, Mercer Island.

Not an "if." The route is approved, basically funded, and Sound Transit is preparing to purchase property now.

[mrt144]

I grew up in Foster City and I would say that its closest analogue is Redmond. For better or worse.

[99Problems]

Foster city and redwood shores are an interesting subset of the bay... Not what we are looking for exactly, but that's very helpful to know about Redmond.

thx!

[Hemlock140]

Originally Posted by BellevueNative

Not an "if." The route is approved, basically funded, and Sound Transit is preparing to purchase property now.

Too bad many of us will be retired before it's finished and running.