I truly need some help... (Seattle, Bellevue: house, to buy, living in)

[Freebird2007]

Blaine?

Lynden?


Mt Vernon?

[Deep_Vee]

Langley?

It's a very quaint small town, but only 30ish minutes from Port Orchard, and a quick ferry ride to Mukilteo and the Greater Metro area?

I had some friends that lived over there for a few years and I really enjoyed visiting them. If you don't have to commute - I think it could be a nice place to live...

Just a thought.

[cobolt]

Does the City have to be Seattle? Do you want to be 30 minutes from Olympia? Ellensburg? Tacoma? I think if you're using Seattle as your focal point, you're going to have a hard time meeting the rest of your criteria.

[EoJenn]

What about Snohomish? Someone else mentioned Kingston, that might be a good fit. You might like Orting as well. That's a growing town, but it still has a small town feel.

[R Johnston]

I recommend Sequim or Port Townsend They are still on the Olympic Peninsula and not far from Poulsbo to check out. Good Luck!

[springshades]

Maybe Liberty Lake halfway between Spokane and Coeur D'Alene? Small town in a fairly beautiful place that has the traditional 4 seasons.

By the way, Western WA does NOT have the traditional 4 seasons. And I'm also fully convinced that there are some places within Seattle city limits that aren't 30 minutes from Seattle at high traffic times.

There are areas near Portland that are somewhere between the traditional 4 seasons and the very mild Seattle seasons. Have you looked into Camas? Probably 40 minutes to downtown Portland and 15 to Vancouver, WA (Vancouver is a fairly decent size).

Poulsbo has a somewhat large downtown for its size because it tends to attract quite a few visitors/in state tourists.

[Home?]

Amberyl,

I was wondering where you ended up? I hope it worked out to be everything you hope it to be. :0)

Gina

[xcalgal]

Winslow is the small downtown area on Bainbridge Island which is just south of Poulsbo. Great schools. Really safe. 30 min. ferry ride to Seattle.

[vette-dude]

There are a good number of smaller towns in Eastern Washington and yep, we also have the seasons, but much warmer on this side of the mountain passes....

Prosser comes to mind as well as Benton City and also not far away from Kennewick where all the big shopping is located, the Mall, Costco and so on...

[LordBalfor]

You are not really going to find a small town anywhere close to Seattle - at least not a small town that is going to STAY that way. The Puget Sound region is well on it's way to growing into a Megalopolis as is essentially ONE CITY from north of Marysville to Olympia (with a small gap at the Nisqually Delta). In addition, urbanization is now growing well into the foothills of the Cascades to the East with once-rural North Bend now becoming a major suburb, and sleepy little Duvall and Snohomish no longer nearly so sleepy at all.

Furthermore with the recent completion of the second Tacoma Narrows Bridge, that traffic bottleneck is now much reduced and development is now exploding on the West Side of the Sound.

I suspect that 20 years from now major development will stretch all along the I-5 corridor from Vancouver Washington in the South to the outskirts of Vancouver Canadian in the North.

Unless of course the gas prices rise so high as to put an end to all of that.

Ken