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Many areas seem to keep getting the same businesses over and over. Coffee shops, carwashes, and other very common ones. Do you feel like there is something missing in your area that people would utilize? Please include service based that may not have an actual store front.
Location: East of Seattle since 1992, 615' Elevation, Zone 8b - originally from SF Bay Area
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In the "area" which includes cities 6-15 miles away there is no shortage of any kind of business. We can find anything we want in Issaquah, Redmond or Bellevue, WA. Here in Sammamish, a city of 65,000 we have no big box stores. There are 3 small strip malls anchored by supermarkets, 5 gas stations, 6 pizza places and maybe 6 other restaurants. No carwashes, but I prefer to do my own in the driveway.
Chef owned-operated restaurants
Farmers Markets (with real farmers)
Specialty clothing retailers (versus big box discount stores)
Internal Medicine MDs
According to my otherwise very easygoing/low maintenance husband who’s very content and fond of Houston:
Del Taco
Habit burger
The man is already happy and willing to drive 2.5 hrs to Austin for live concerts (we just went for Suede & Manic Street Preachers.) we should petition Del Taco to open branches in Houston.
SF kinda sucks for hole-in-the-wall, non-fancy Italian food. I was looking for such a joint in North Beach yesterday (historically the Italian neighborhood) to meet some friends at, and only found like two places where the pastas don't start at $20+.
The Eastern European food scene is also lackluster compared to Chicago (not fair of course). I know one Hungarian place here in the Mission, haven't been there yet but it's kinda fancy. There's a historically Russian enclave out in the Richmond, I've been to one of those places and it was okay but also overpriced. I haven't seen any Polish, Czech, Bosnian, or Lithuanian in SF --- even Seattle has a Bosnian place on Alki Beach.
Location: East of Seattle since 1992, 615' Elevation, Zone 8b - originally from SF Bay Area
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Originally Posted by ainsley1999
According to my otherwise very easygoing/low maintenance husband who’s very content and fond of Houston:
Del Taco
Habit burger
The man is already happy and willing to drive 2.5 hrs to Austin for live concerts (we just went for Suede & Manic Street Preachers.) we should petition Del Taco to open branches in Houston.
We recently went to our new Habit Burger, less than a mile away which replaced Jack in the Box. I would consider it the best fast food burgers after Shake Shack, but you pay for what you get. It cost us $27.56 for two, just cheesburgers, small fries, small drinks.
frankly DC severely lacks affordable food that isn't fast food.
that any many areas of the city lack basic services.
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