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Old 07-20-2015, 05:33 PM
 
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I've been to seattle before so I kinda thought Tacoma
would look similar to Seattle but after looking at few pictures I feel confused haha
I really want to live somehwere thats more city like. My husband is in the military so I need to stay close from base too,,(maybe up to 40 min drive). Can someone help me out??
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Old 07-20-2015, 05:40 PM
 
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I've been to seattle before so I kinda thought Tacoma
would look similar to Seattle but after looking at few pictures I feel confused haha
I really want to live somehwere thats more city like. My husband is in the military so I need to stay close from base too,,(maybe up to 40 min drive). Can someone help me out??
40 mins with the traffic isn't going to give you a broad area.

Closest big city to the base is going to be Tacoma which is going to have almost all the amenities one would need. The rest are going to be small towns, and big suburbs.
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Old 07-20-2015, 06:03 PM
 
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Tacoma is pretty 'city-like'. Not sure what kind of pics you are looking at or what parts but downtown and the surrounding neighborhoods are quite urban.
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Old 07-21-2015, 09:43 PM
 
Location: Seattle, WA
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Downtown Tacoma has fairly nice urban bones. Historically, Tacoma was destined to become the big city for our region (obviously Seattle ended up overshadowing it). I personally think Tacoma truly SHOULD have become the region's big city over Seattle due to Tacoma not having all the geographic obstacles which make Seattle both beautiful but also a traffic nightmare (I'm talking about Seattle's disconnected streets, bizzare street layout, and bottlenecks.) Besides Downtown Tacoma being built on a steep bluff, the rest of the city is fairly flat which allows city planners to build a proper and logical grid (the hillbillies who planned parts of Seattle's god awful streets must have been drunk when planning this city).

But yes, outside of Downtown Tacoma, the rest of the city is basically all single family houses and a large suburban shopping mall. There's a pretty cool little downtown, but I'd definitely call Tacoma 85% suburban and 15% under-populated-urbanity.
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Old 07-23-2015, 02:33 AM
 
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Tacoma is a mid-sized urban port city in and the county seat of Pierce County, Washington, United States.The city is on Washington's Puget Sound, 32 miles (51 km) southwest of Seattle, 31 miles (50 km) northeast of the state capital, Olympia, and 58 miles (93 km) northwest of Mount Rainier National Park.
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Old 07-25-2015, 05:43 PM
 
Location: Seattle WA, USA
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I think Downtown Tacoma is pretty "city like" at least I think so.

http://media.komonews.com/images/130...skyling_lg.jpg

http://www.multicare.org/files/libra...t-lights_g.jpg

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikiped...cdtaug05_1.jpg

http://flytacoma.com/wp-content/uplo...c_1200x801.jpg

https://www.google.com/maps/@47.2533...7i13312!8i6656

https://www.google.com/maps/@47.2552...7i13312!8i6656

of course it's no Seattle, but it is city nonetheless.
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Old 07-25-2015, 08:15 PM
 
Location: Fredericksburg, Virginia
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If you want urban, you would enjoy living in N Tacoma. It's lovely. Look at at Proctor district, N Slope Historic District, Stadium District, 6th Ave, UPS, etc...
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