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Old 05-13-2016, 11:56 PM
 
Location: Seattle
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Ooh, flyingsaucer, that's a bad air quality exchange. Travel well.
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Old 05-14-2016, 01:21 AM
 
Location: Portal to the Pacific
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Awe, that's nice... I didn't think people would take much notice of my post

To follow up:

Seattle4321: I will be relearning the art of schmooze with other (stranded and legally unemployable) expat housewives (and lucky me, there is a formal 400 member-strong social club that does exactly that) My husband will be chief *** officer for *** in Shenzhen.

Leastprime: We'll be renting it out, but not immediately We have some immigration issues that require the execution of the offer in 2 phases. Husband will be in and out, but wife, kids (and cats!) won't relocate until sometime in early 2017. I'm wondering if I can set the lease for 10 months.. I'd love to come back each summer and avoid the hot mess of monsoons.

Seacove: Um, yeah, I'll be honest with you, living in a developing communist nation that frequents the GOP platform's ****list was never on the bucket list. The goal is to ride it out, live cheaply, conserve salary and come back to SEATTLE and enjoy the ultimate freedom of freedoms: the freedom from employment.

Homesinseattle: Fortunately the expat community is on the waterfront and benefits from South China Sea winds blowing pollution inland... still, it's not going to be remotely as fresh and quality air as Seattle.
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Old 05-14-2016, 07:15 AM
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flyingsaucermom, enjoy your adventure, though isn't your home in Issaquah? It doesn't really add to the available space in Seattle.

To the OP's point, I was just fretting yesterday to DH about the frothy market in our neighborhood (Central District). Redfin alerts reveal properties are selling for big percentages over asking price, listing prices are being revised higher. A dear neighbor is about to list, decamping to the SW WA coast where she grew up. I know change is inevitable, but this pace is disorienting.
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Old 05-14-2016, 09:41 AM
 
Location: Was Midvalley Oregon; Now Eastside Seattle area
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^DS also lives in CD. We are thinking of moving to be closer to him but the increases are daunting and with slim pickings.
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Old 05-14-2016, 10:01 AM
 
Location: Portal to the Pacific
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flyingsaucermom, enjoy your adventure, though isn't your home in Issaquah? It doesn't really add to the available space in Seattle.

To the OP's point, I was just fretting yesterday to DH about the frothy market in our neighborhood (Central District). Redfin alerts reveal properties are selling for big percentages over asking price, listing prices are being revised higher. A dear neighbor is about to list, decamping to the SW WA coast where she grew up. I know change is inevitable, but this pace is disorienting.
By point of return, maybe not. Without the need of strong public schools we will have options.
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Old 05-14-2016, 10:21 AM
 
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I think people are getting way over excited, sure Seattle has a lot of growth, but more housing will come online, it ALWAYS does.

Every city that gets a spurt of growth or a short term shortage of housing acts like the sky is falling, but time and time and time again developers fill the void, and mostly end up way over shooting.

We have the space, the water and power to build as much as we need and more.
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Old 05-14-2016, 10:39 AM
 
Location: Prescott Arizona
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Been here 3 years, and we're trying to get out. Between the Traffic, cost of living and lousy weather, we're done.

Seattle is a big city with lots of white people (for now). I see the attraction to it for some, but it's not worth it too me. I'm not racist, so I would rather live with blacks or Latinos and live like a king. I could live in a 4000 sq-ft home in a gated community for what we pay for an older home half that size in a decent neighborhood here. People say the outdoors are incredible up her, but the weather is so lousy, you can only enjoy it for a few months out of the year. Yea, it's on the water, but the water is cold with no beaches or decent fishing.

I'm trying to transfer my job back to San Antonio. I miss the light traffic, nice weather, and friendly people. I miss driving to a time share a couple hours away on the beach for the weekend. This place is just depressing to me, and it's crawling with butthead hipsters that can't mind their own business. It's like Austin on steroids.
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Old 05-14-2016, 12:05 PM
 
Location: Portal to the Pacific
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Been here 3 years, and we're trying to get out. Between the Traffic, cost of living and lousy weather, we're done.

Seattle is a big city with lots of white people (for now). I see the attraction to it for some, but it's not worth it too me. I'm not racist, so I would rather live with blacks or Latinos and live like a king. I could live in a 4000 sq-ft home in a gated community for what we pay for an older home half that size in a decent neighborhood here. People say the outdoors are incredible up her, but the weather is so lousy, you can only enjoy it for a few months out of the year. Yea, it's on the water, but the water is cold with no beaches or decent fishing.

I'm trying to transfer my job back to San Antonio. I miss the light traffic, nice weather, and friendly people. I miss driving to a time share a couple hours away on the beach for the weekend. This place is just depressing to me, and it's crawling with butthead hipsters that can't mind their own business. It's like Austin on steroids.
I love San Antonio. I lived there for several summers when I went to UT-Austin. The riverwalk is romantic and with the Christmas lights, becomes magical (I was once proposed to there ). I miss the cheap, but hearty breakfasts (breakfast tacos and pan dulce, but also migas, huevos rancheros, and straight up American faire). The Hispanic cultural dominance gives it the pleasant, friendly and laid-back characteristics.

That said... It's still in Texas and it's still a Texan city.

1) You may think 85-105 degree weather is some sort of paradise, but I don't share in this sentiment.
2) Wide-open Texas skies can impress, but I find flat, semi-barren land very uninspiring.
3) Sure, you can drive to Gulf in pretty good time, but it's still the Gulf: brown water and ugly beaches.

and prevailing cultural, political and religious paradigms...

1) My ex-finace had an engineering degree from UT-Austin and was halfway through a MA and yet still believed a ritual involving olive oil, hand gestures and a prayers was going to somehow rid me of sin and intellectualism.

2) My future sister-in-law's husband (at the time) believed the Harry Potter series was witchcraft and the work of the devil. He vehemently protested the release of the Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone and warned his listeners (he had a local radio show) and forbade their children from seeing the film and being exposed to the evils of the world (and Warner Bros. Pictures).

3) I was, with annoying frequency, called "Little Lady" by American men and "gordita" (little fat one) by my Mexican-American fiance. I was taught these were both terms of endearment and assured they didn't reflect any sort of actual physical characteristics.. and in fact, they're compliments! I should be so lucky to invoke such warmth and intimacy!

4) My future mother-in-law was a slumlord. She had a dozen dilapidated shacks on the westside that she illegally rented out to illegal immigrants from Mexico and Latin America. No taxes were paid on the income. Her daughter was an INS agent. Nobody seemed to find the irony and humor in this fact except for me (maybe that's why they thought I needed a cleansing ritual???).

Nope. Don't miss it.

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Old 05-14-2016, 12:18 PM
 
Location: Independent Republic of Ballard
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Why does everyone want to come here vs Portland or anywhere else? I guess what is so special about here?
Alert: Portlandites (?) are complaining about the exact same things: awful traffic, long commutes, rapidly escalating housing prices and rents, rampant homelessness. It is not just a Seattle problem. Personally, I think it is more about people, having ruined where they are, looking for the "last best place", so they can ruin it too.

Personally, I'm just waiting for the trifecta: a Boeing/Microsoft/Amazon BUST...
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Old 05-14-2016, 12:25 PM
 
Location: Portal to the Pacific
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Alert: Portlandites (?) are complaining about the exact same things: awful traffic, long commutes, rapidly escalating housing prices and rents, rampant homelessness. It is not just a Seattle problem. Personally, I think it is more about people, having ruined where they are, looking for the "last best place", so they can ruin it too.

Personally, I'm just waiting for the trifecta: a Boeing/Microsoft/Amazon BUST...
Microsoft has been a a slow, extended bust for years now... their own damn fault for it too...
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