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Old 09-07-2013, 09:23 AM
 
Location: Midwest/South
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Has Bellevue reached the point where it is no longer in Seattle's shadow of being called a suburb? The Seattle area is often referred to Seattle-Tacoma...should it be Seattle-Tacoma-Bellevue or even Seattle-Bellevue? Just driving downtown Bellevue is starting to feel like a downtown Denver or something. It's starting to have the huge feel. Bellevue's population is catching up to Tacoma's!
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Old 09-07-2013, 09:48 AM
 
Location: Bellevue, WA
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Hard for me to say because I just moved here from Dallas. The Bellevue skyline is almost as big as the one in Dallas! We live in Bellevue & nothing here has the feeling of the cookie cutter suburban sprawl outside of Dallas.
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Old 09-07-2013, 10:06 AM
 
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Has Bellevue reached the point where it is no longer in Seattle's shadow of being called a suburb? The Seattle area is often referred to Seattle-Tacoma...should it be Seattle-Tacoma-Bellevue or even Seattle-Bellevue? Just driving downtown Bellevue is starting to feel like a downtown Denver or something. It's starting to have the huge feel. Bellevue's population is catching up to Tacoma's!
I agree with you completely( how often does that happen?)
When I think of "suburb" I think of a place that people live and commute into the city. In Bellevue's case, lots of people commute to it from Seattle just as they do the reverse. You can't look at Bellevue's skyline and say " This is a suburb."
Sure, there are parts of Bellevue that are very suburban looking, and it was developed as a suburb, but no more. It probably is more of that "Twin City" thing. I'm sure there are lots of people in Minneapolis who make fun of St. Paul and vice versa. Just like some Bellevue folks think of Seattle as dirty and crime ridden, and some Seattle folks think of Bellevue as boring and shallow.
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Old 09-07-2013, 11:35 AM
 
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Census already identifies the area as Seattle-Tacoma-Bellevue metro area. Bellevue has already overtaken Tacoma's spot as being the 2nd urban downtown in WA. Being the economic powerhouse that it is (there's over 125 business HQs in Bellevue), it's simply poised to continue growing while Tacoma struggles to find its footing (and they will, and it'll be a more of a grassroots community effort).

But yes, Bellevue has grown beyond the suburb label.
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Old 09-07-2013, 01:07 PM
 
Location: West Coast - Best Coast!
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Bellevue is considered an "edge city" now. I think of Seattle & Bellevue as San Francisco & San Jose.
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Old 09-07-2013, 03:28 PM
 
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Bellevue is considered an "edge city" now. I think of Seattle & Bellevue as San Francisco & San Jose.
Bellevue is much more similar to Walnut Creek than San Jose.
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Old 09-07-2013, 05:10 PM
 
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Walnut Creek has nowhere near the number of corporate headquarters - including Fortune 500 ones - that Bellevue boasts.

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Bellevue is much more similar to Walnut Creek than San Jose.
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Old 09-07-2013, 05:26 PM
 
Location: East of Seattle since 1992, 615' Elevation, Zone 8b - originally from SF Bay Area
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Walnut Creek has nowhere near the number of corporate headquarters - including Fortune 500 ones - that Bellevue boasts.
The similarity is limited to the affluent population, great schools, and vibrant downtown without the crime of most cities that size, and a lot of suburban homes around the downtown core. Geographically it's more like San Francisco/Oakland, separated by a bridge, but thankfully that's Bellevue's only similarity to Oakland. It is similar to San Jose in corporate investment, on a smaller scale, but nothing else in Bellevue is like San Jose. I don't see this as anything at all like Dallas/FW or Minn/StP.
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Old 09-07-2013, 05:29 PM
 
Location: Midwest/South
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I agree with you completely( how often does that happen?)
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LOL! I know... :-)
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Old 09-07-2013, 06:00 PM
 
Location: Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
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It's a suburb. It may not look that suburban, but that is what it is. It's not like Dallas/Forth Worth
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