Relocation advice for the Spokane area (Seattle, South Hill: fit in, how much, new house)

[BA2WA]

This thread is starting to make anywhere sound better than Spokane. We want to move FROM the 3rd world, not TO it. Utopia does not exist but it is getting more and more difficult to consider Spokane as our best choice.

[Count David]

Originally Posted by Mounty

I recently came back from Sacramento area, and the whole city of Roseville, Rocklin, Folsom, ElDorado hills are all solid throughout - I can tell anybody 'you can move in there' and not have to specify blocks or warn them about anything because all of them are nice.

Ummm, well, if you're going to pick out middle-class+ suburban areas and make this statement, well, that's pretty easy to do.

Liberty Lake, Mead, Colbert, Newman Lake, all solid throughout, no need to specify blocks.

[Yeledaf]

Originally Posted by David Aguilar

^Confirmed Spokies?

Nah. But lots of folks in Spokane would consider those tats to die for. Unfortunately, they'd be speaking figuratively.

[Yeledaf]

Originally Posted by BA2WA

This thread is starting to make anywhere sound better than Spokane. We want to move FROM the 3rd world, not TO it. Utopia does not exist but it is getting more and more difficult to consider Spokane as our best choice.

Re-read my earlier post. You'd love my neighborhood, though it's a little too new for craftsman style. However, there are plenty of craftsman-type houses in the South Hill sweet spot (roughly between the east-west streets 14th and 29th, and the north-south streets High Drive and Grand Boulevard), which is pretty big.

Here are a couple:

[aplcr0331]

Whenever I ask for advice, I only consider one or two sources as well. Especially if one of the sources has not been in the area I'm asking about for a while. Generalities are what I go for. Blanket statements are always good. I also never question someone when all they say is negative things about a place. I assume that the negative people are representative of the whole.

There are a few people, like about 17 or 18 that actually like Spokane.

[Yeledaf]

Originally Posted by aplcr0331

Whenever I ask for advice, I only consider one or two sources as well. Especially if one of the sources has not been in the area I'm asking about for a while. Generalities are what I go for. Blanket statements are always good. I also never question someone when all they say is negative things about a place. I assume that the negative people are representative of the whole.

There are a few people, like about 17 or 18 that actually like Spokane.

Outrageous understatement is what floats my boat. And micron-thinly-veiled sarcasm.

Liking Spokane? Too many facets. E.g.: Like the lack of drama. Dislike the mulishness. Like the flowers n birdies n trees. Dislike the lapdogs driving luxury cars. Like the frosty Christmas. Dislike the frosty Easter...

[aplcr0331]

Originally Posted by Yeledaf

Outrageous understatement is what floats my boat. And micron-thinly-veiled sarcasm.

Liking Spokane? Too many facets. E.g.: Like the lack of drama. Dislike the mulishness. Like the flowers n birdies n trees. Dislike the lapdogs driving luxury cars. Like the frosty Christmas. Dislike the frosty Easter...

Come one Yel, you have to admit that my sarcasm if rarely thinly veiled

[Yeledaf]

Originally Posted by aplcr0331

Come one Yel, you have to admit that my sarcasm if rarely thinly veiled

Only to the sensitive reader. <snif>

[tickyul]

I will chime-in just to give some of my thoughts on spoKOMPTON.

I won't go too deeply into what I like.....there is quite a bit, especially the great weather.

One of the negatives about spoKOMPTON that really eats at me is a LOT of the people seems like they don't mind a dirty/trashy environment.

When I lived in San Diego.....I owned a lot in a place called Mountain View. This area is considered a pretty ghetto part of San Diego......lots of illegals and other foreigners . Well, the people that lived in that area had no problem with throwing bags of trash and other debris anywhere and everywhere. I would have to visit my property a couple of times a week to clear-out the "fresh" trash that people had dumped. It wasn't just my property.....it seemed like there was trashy everywhere.

Just the other day, I witnessed a young man finish his lunch and toss the food wrappers out his window like it was no big deal. I have seen folks take a container of old ciggie-butts and just dump them on the ground....WTF! You go to a lot of the stores in this area and the parking lots, grounds and planters have trash and filthy ciggie butts all over......pretty nasty.

But on the PLUS side.......spoKOMPTON is home to the inventor of the fatcart that is also a rolling porta-potty, you can poop while you are rolling through the store.

Seriously, spoKOMPTON is mainly a very, very trashy city!

[Yeledaf]

On the other hand, Spokane's street department washes and sweeps the streets regularly -- at least in MY neighborhood (ahem)...

Individual nasty people do not a nasty city make.

Spend less time in those parking lots, tick! Get out and smell the ozone!