do most people LIVE in Seattle or not? (daycare, public schools)

[Ira500]

Wait a second here!! Theres a real bakery in KENT where? DO they have Lobster tails? Cannoli? Napoleon? How about a loaf of good ole Semolina bread?

Maybe a Black and White cookie? An Entenmanns coffe cake? anything I can enjoy? mod cut: image removed Any place to find a Pignoli cookie?


Hey Paison at 641 SW 152nd in Burien makes canoli and cheesecake and real east coast style subs( The dude's from Philly). Sal's Deli at 15212 6th Ave SW makes stromboli, and the Wild Wheat Bakery at 202 1st Avenue S. in Kent makes the best rye bread anywhere around here, good challah and challah French toast), and awesome blueberry pancakes( The dude's from New Jersey).

[eastwesteastagain]

but relevant to east coast food, try Giannoni's Pizza in Westwood Village for the only decent pizza I've had out here - nice and thin, well-seasoned and sold by the slice

[Anders15]

Well we are paying $1550 a month for a crummy 3br 2 1/2 bath "condo" thats less than 1500 square feet.

we surely could do fine there right?

[70Ford]

$37,650...hrmmm....

Here's how much I pay a month for sundries... or at least I paid then. Maybe I'll look it over and see if it's changed much...

http://www.city-data.com/forum/seatt...el-income.html

My cell phone bill is $60, since I've added my son to the plan. Cable/intenet is over $100 bucks...and we don't get the expensive channels. Actually, my wife just asked me to drop the cable...and the daily newspaper. She gets all her TV from the internet/computer I hooked up to the LCD TV. (Before I came over here.) I was the only one who read the newspaper anyways. She just likes the coupons....and the sales papers. Oh, rent is $1465.

$1465 - rent/trash/water

$115 - internet/cable TV/telephone
$28 - Violin rental
$100ish - random kid related school/whatever stuff.
$60 - cell phone
$135 -car insurance / no citations/ 2000 Accord/2007 Civic (this depends on zip code, I live in King county)
$300-ish - Monthly food
$20 - land line local access (kids/we can call 911 if we have to, traceable)
$20 - Newspaper
$68 - last month's energy bill (we have in wall heaters..wife is stingy with heat...your mileage may vary)
$280 - monthly foreign language tuition for both kids

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Edit, I'm looking at my bills. Add at least $300 a month to that for "random crap."
Add $1000 for "wife needed a tooth crowned" and another $900 for "kids dental work" this month.

Yeah...that's outputting over $4000 dollars in one month. Easy.

Too easy. It's probably more like five thousand.

[dpgtfc]

Are you referring to me?

The poster said "37k aint going to happen in ANY city".

1435 for rent? Ok, seattle sure - though still a bit hoity toity considering we found a place to rent for 720 a month - 2 bed, 1 bath though. Have you ever lived anywhere else?

We currently pay 650 for a 3 bedroom 2 bath townhouse with a two car garage. I've had a 2 bedroom apartment for 315 a month before. This was in 2000, not 1972.

Like I said. I've never made more than 35k a year, and I survived.

If the poster said "37k in most cities with a family" I wouldn't have disagreed. He made an ignorant and sweeping statement with no qualifiers and I called him on it. I stand by my statement. Just because you live in an expensive city with a family doesn't mean NOBODY can make it on 37k. (The guy lives on Mercer Island and is from NYC, clearly he doesn't have the sense of the real world being apparently rich)

edit: also, in that other post you mention the maximum cost of a house you can afford at 156k, which you describe as 3x your income... it doesn't quite work like that. They suggest 20-35% of your income be in your mortgage payments, not the total cost of the house. at 156k, your payments would likely only be about 900 dollars a month. at 1400 dollars a month mortgage, you could buy a 250-300k house.

[LollieTheCat]

Originally Posted by Yankees02

Wait a second here!! Theres a real bakery in KENT where? DO they have Lobster tails? Cannoli? Napoleon? How about a loaf of good ole Semolina bread?

Maybe a Black and White cookie? An Entenmanns coffe cake? anything I can enjoy? mod cut: image removed Any place to find a Pignoli cookie?

Your really missing things back east huh?
Well instead of giving us Seattle Ladies a hard time about out driving, why dont you just go on back there? Or maybe you secretly love it here?
<still giggling about your post>

[LollieTheCat]

Originally Posted by RonMaverick804

Well we are paying $1550 a month for a crummy 3br 2 1/2 bath "condo" thats less than 1500 square feet.

we surely could do fine there right?

Yes, i think you will be just fine. If you can pay that amount for a rental then you can even get one in a decent area.

[70Ford]

Originally Posted by dpgtfc

... at 156k, your payments would likely only be about 900 dollars a month. at 1400 dollars a month mortgage, you could buy a 250-300k house.

You might could buy it...but could you afford the taxes on it and to maintain it?
I used CNN's calculator Affordable Home Calculator from CNNMoney

and it didn't come up with a 300K house on 52 grand a year.

[_Charles_]

I know OA's and people working retail management that make more than $37k a year.
For Seattle $37k is poverty level. Are you only working part time? That seems very, very low for a nurse.

[JoeMama2009]

Buses and commuter vans run out of Olympia to Seattle. In this economy, more people in Thurston CO work in Seattle than for the State BIG GOV in Olympia. I live with my girlfriend and our 14 week old infant in a one bedroom for 575.00 (rent, water, trash, parking), 64.00 a month for Internet DSL, average 87.00 a month for power/electric. It's kinda ghetto, but the Eastside neighborhood is NICE!!! Parks, cute older and newer homes, Food Coop, Grocery stores, gas stations, towing, chiropractor, and other businesses. As well as easy access to I5 and shopping in Lacey. I saw a sign advertising: For Rent! 995.00 three bedroom home in area (small yard, fruit trees, etc). Check out Olympia, but avoid Tacoma! Tacoma is the ashtray of Seattle, and used to have a huge gang problem, and still does to a lesser degree.