Married lesbian couple looking for a new home in Eastern Washington (Seattle: taxes, to live)

[509]

Originally Posted by Luv2byte

Eastern wa is VERY conservative. I know, I am from there & much family is there. Did I mention VERY conservative? See if you can find voting results by county for our state, might be helpful.

We have lakes, ocean, mountains, colleges here in western WA, keep up your research.

Where do you live?? Ah, "here in western WA".

Most people in eastern Washington are tolerant of different lifestyles. It is the "in you face" lifestyles that are hard to tolerate. However, most of those are "urban, new rich, microsoft transplants, etc. etc.".

Chelan had a gay mayor well over two decades ago. In Wenatchee, some urban transplants tried to get rid of gay teachers in the school system. They were told to knock it off rather quickly.

Lots of gays in Wenatchee at all levels of society. They do not have naked parades on Wenatchee Ave...however.

Tolerance cuts both ways. People will judge you on how you treat other people. Good people go beyond gender orientation or politics.

[Arushan]

A wooded area in Eastern WA means a high wild-fire risk... I'd personally take the potential for earthquakes and floods over that. I'd look into Sequim or Port Angeles in Western WA. That area has much less rain than the rest of Western WA and probably has what you're looking for.

[eidas]

close to 20 years ago, a couple gay professional guys I casually knew moved to Spokane from Seattle area - one reason being it had an "active gay community". I know no more.

[Luv2byte]

Originally Posted by 509

Where do you live?? Ah, "here in western WA".

Most people in eastern Washington are tolerant of different lifestyles. It is the "in you face" lifestyles that are hard to tolerate. However, most of those are "urban, new rich, microsoft transplants, etc. etc.".

Chelan had a gay mayor well over two decades ago. In Wenatchee, some urban transplants tried to get rid of gay teachers in the school system. They were told to knock it off rather quickly.

Lots of gays in Wenatchee at all levels of society. They do not have naked parades on Wenatchee Ave...however.

Tolerance cuts both ways. People will judge you on how you treat other people. Good people go beyond gender orientation or politics.

I grew up in eastern WA, 75% of family is there (Moses Lake/Ephrata), I did high school in Seattle area and moved years ago to SW WA. I've been all over WA.

It would be awesome if people could look behind gender, race & orientation but sadly they don't. Growing up I didn't have a Caucasian friend until middle school I think. I wasn't raised to make choices on skin color or anything other than "are they good people?".

[EssenceofAshley]

Thank you so much everyone for all of the awesome info! I really appreciate all of the great responses! It's definitely helping to make the task of figuring out where to live much much easier I hope you guys aren't too horribly smashed by that storm I saw was heading through there Thoughts are with you all!

[xboxmas]

I would look into the Spokane area.

[spiritbear928]

You probably have already moved here but I want to second Ellensburg as a recommendation. 15 minutes from the Forest. Not as in your face conservative as the rest of Central/Easter WA. 2 hrs from Seattle. I know a few gay people here who do very well. College town meets cow town. I like it. Moved here a year ago from the We_t side.

[aplcr0331]

Look at comment #2. If that is what you want, then you'll want to be in Western WA. If you want to live where people don't care about your sexual orientation, then Eastern WA will be just fine. In 2013 the Magazine Advocate voted Spokane #3 in terms of Gay friendly...in the nation. To be fair Tacoma was #1 and Seattle was #5.

Anyway, if your goal is to be paraded around as the "gay friend" like you're some sort of accessory, then Western WA is where you want to be. Unfortunately here in Eastern WA many people don't care about your sexuality. Not one bit. So you might not get that same "look at me, I'm cool and hip" vibe that you get on the other side. If you are good people, work hard, pay taxes, don't mind kids and animals you're more than welcome over here.

Now, the million dollar question; How accepting are you of people who have different views?

[Seacove]

Here are the results of Referendum 74 voting for gay marriage in Washington State:

Washington Referendum 74 - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

[aplcr0331]

Originally Posted by Seacove

Here are the results of Referendum 74 voting for gay marriage in Washington State:

Washington Referendum 74 - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

That shows me that when the majority of a state's voters vote for something then it becomes law and is upheld. Is that your position?