Port Orchard or Bremerton??????? (Seattle, Bellevue: real estate, apartment, rent)

[dilara]

Hello,

My husband,I and our 2 years old daughter are living in Bellevue,WA right now..I love the city we live in but my husband got a job in Port Orchard....

Looks like we will have to move very soon

Any ideas about these two places....We are not gonna rent an apartment! To be on the safe side we dont know where to go...

And I am a city personnn so any tips???

Thanks you all!

[41Willys]

From what Ive been reading Port Orchard hands down! I read theres alot of crime in Bremerton!

[UmbrellasYearRound]

Oh yes - I completely agree! Port Orchard is MUCH nicer than Bremerton. Bremerton has pockets of very high drug use and simply lacks the charm that Port Orchard has. I'd definitely go with Port Orchard. If you get too far out from Port Orchard and head into Manchester the housing may get even a little cheaper but the charm of Port Orchard will diminish. Crime is lower in Port Orchard.

[dilara]

Thank you for the answers..

We are gonna rent an apartment and I dont know if somebody has an idea?

And I have never been that side of WA , I just know Seattle,Bellevue,Kirkland and Redmond...

Bellevue is where we live...

Is Port Orchard a small city? Are there any malls,parks...nice streets,cinemas around like Bellevue....!! Our home is on main street so I love Bellevue downtown!!!

[Harrisonmmom]

If you're a city person, you don't want Port Orchard. Look past statistics. Port Orchard is very rural, and all that goes with that. Bremerton is revitalizing after 50 years of needing it badly. Come look at the waterfront downtown: million dollar condos, marina, new convention center... I would hands down rather bet my real estate investment dollars on Bremerton than PO. From a local, who moved here from Kirkland, I would highly recommend you look at the Manette area. It is becoming a bedroom community to Seattle, walking distance to ferries, nice views, residential streets, artsy retail. Still very much up&coming, but it's a matter of when, not if. Hope that helps. There are other very nice areas/schools/etc, but a further commute to PO for your husband's work.

[41Willys]

ummm, take a drive this weekend and look, I cant imagine Bellevue being to far from Port Orchard! Maybe an hour?

[UmbrellasYearRound]

I went through several months of having to commute from the northgate neighborhood of Seattle to downtown Port Orchard. I could do it in an hour and 15 minutes if there was no traffic, but usually it did not take much longer than an hour and a half.

I'm very familiar with Bellevue and I know downtown Bellevue quite well. I would still live in Port Orchard over Bremerton! I've lived in both places briefly. You can easily get to bigger places from Port Orchard so you won't necessarily feel like you're quite so trapped in a small town.

If you're going to be working in PO then you'll have a shorter commute. Highway 3 connects Bremerton to PO and occassionally traffic on that road can be extremely heavy.

And I do realize that Bremerton is going through a revival but there's still much too large of a drug culture there for my liking. As a defense attorney I spend a lot of time reading police reports, and Bremerton has quite the drug problem.

Someone suggested Manette which may very well be a good idea but that's one more bridge you have to drive over to get to PO. If you're in PO and you want to get out of town to Seattle or someplace larger you can hop on Highway 16 and be in a big place fast!

If what you want to do is live in a place that's more upscale and larger and still be close to PO than I would pick neither Bremerton nor PO. Gig Harbor would be the logical place to commute from under those circumstances. It's probably about 15 to 25 minutes from Gig Harbor to PO and that would be a 'reverse commute' too which cuts down the likelihood of getting caught in traffic.

[Tony1790]

Hands down Port Orchard, it's a great little town, out of curiosity, what sort of job in Port Orchard would move you there? Is it at Safe Boat? I just moved out of Port Orchard due to the inability in finding a decent paying job there.

Good luck to you,

Tony

[dilara]

Very thanks to all...

I definetly will look at the areas that you talk about...I love the are that we live so we are talking about staying in Bellevue... My husband might try going to work from here!

Any ideas about the time,traffic,price of the ferry??? Would that be so hard?

My husband is a civil engineer, and he is gonna start working on a project there!!

Thank you all ..

[dilara]

OHHH NOOO!!

this weekend we went to see Port Orchard to have an idea!! Ohh my god it was the worst town I have ever seen in USA. There is almost nothing to do,no mall,no people,no downtown....

I am afraid of seeing Bremerton now!!! Is it worse than that?