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That doesn't seem right. Seeing how the average 1 br rent in Seattle is over twice the amount you paid-either you really lucked out or it was 1973.
An aPodment isn't a 1-bedroom or even a studio. It is a 200-square foot room that shares a kitchen with other units. It's basically a dorm room for adults. Or in other words, a boarding house. These units are basically targeting the young transplants who don't want to go through the hassle of finding roommates.
An aPodment isn't a 1-bedroom or even a studio. It is a 200-square foot room that shares a kitchen with other units. It's basically a dorm room for adults. Or in other words, a boarding house. These units are basically targeting the young transplants who don't want to go through the hassle of finding roommates.
Housing prices are dictated by supply and demand. If there is a huge demand and or not enough supply the prices go up. Also you don't have to live downtown, you can live in the burbs or one of the other satilite cities. Though they will probably will be more expensive than most cities. Also Seattle has good paying jobs, a lot of people can afford it.
Increasing importance: Greater Atlanta or Greater Seattle
These are two of the fastest growing cities in the country and increasingly becoming more important by each passing year.
You can feel free to use MSA or CSA in this comparison. Whichever works for your argument really.
I personally go with CSA and by that metric the two cities are both booming to similar extents. The #1 similarity that I see is that both are around the same percentage wise in population growth. The Atlanta CSA is 7.70% while Seattle is literally just a hair behind at 7.67%. Both cities are seeing rapid employment and economic gains as well. Both have diversified economies, from my understanding. Both serve as logistical anchors to their entire regions (the Piedmont Atlantic/Southeast and Cascadia/Pacific Northwest). Both are Delta hubs.
Both cities are the unquestioned top dogs of their respective regions. Both are going through incredible boom cycles right now as well.
Some factors:
- Population growth
- GDP gains
- Income appreciation
- Corporate headquarter relocations
- Key industries
- Private Investment
- Colleges, universities, and research and development firms
- Medicine
- Growth in reputation and brand
- Law (legal field)
- Real-estate market
- Immigration gateway
- national security funding
- Presence of retail and hotel brands
- Presence of Class 4 or higher research laboratories
- Logistical purpose (airport, seaport, spaceport, rail ports, intermodal ports (inland port systems for delivery trucks))
I think both areas are trending up, without a doubt, and both are gunning to move up in the pecking order.
We don't have current numbers for population. Even the latest Census estimates are 51 weeks in the past. So this should be past tense.
Atlanta is a bigger city and has typically grown much more quickly. It's one of the world's top crossroads. But Seattle has a much larger downtown and is a far bigger tech center. Seattle is more urban in every regard from transit usage to density.
The biggest similarity might be global health. Atlanta has the CDC and Seattle has Gates, and each has a constallation around those.
I'd put the HQs of Microsoft and Amazon ahead of most others...they probably total 80,000 HQ employees locally, and I doubt Coke and CNN have a significant fraction of that. But Altanta has a larger overall business presence.
Atlanta probably wins this one. But Seattle would win the "pound for pound" comparison as a city 2/3 the size.
We don't have current numbers for population. Even the latest Census estimates are 51 weeks in the past. So this should be past tense.
Atlanta is a bigger city and has typically grown much more quickly. It's one of the world's top crossroads. But Seattle has a much larger downtown and is a far bigger tech center. Seattle is more urban in every regard from transit usage to density.
The biggest similarity might be global health. Atlanta has the CDC and Seattle has Gates, and each has a constallation around those.
I'd put the HQs of Microsoft and Amazon ahead of most others...they probably total 80,000 HQ employees locally, and I doubt Coke and CNN have a significant fraction of that. But Altanta has a larger overall business presence.
Atlanta probably wins this one. But Seattle would win the "pound for pound" comparison as a city 2/3 the size.
Coke I dont think has the most employess.That would be UPS,Delta,or Home Depot.
How does Seattle have a more transit usage when according to the numbers I see,MARTA has more ridership.In fact,its listed as ranked 8th on the US and 13th in North America.Seattle is nowhere in that list.
These are two of the fastest growing cities in the country and increasingly becoming more important by each passing year.
You can feel free to use MSA or CSA in this comparison. Whichever works for your argument really.
I personally go with CSA and by that metric the two cities are both booming to similar extents. The #1 similarity that I see is that both are around the same percentage wise in population growth. The Atlanta CSA is 7.70% while Seattle is literally just a hair behind at 7.67%. Both cities are seeing rapid employment and economic gains as well. Both have diversified economies, from my understanding. Both serve as logistical anchors to their entire regions (the Piedmont Atlantic/Southeast and Cascadia/Pacific Northwest). Both are Delta hubs.
Both cities are the unquestioned top dogs of their respective regions. Both are going through incredible boom cycles right now as well.
Some factors:
- Population growth
- GDP gains
- Income appreciation
- Corporate headquarter relocations
- Key industries
- Private Investment
- Colleges, universities, and research and development firms
- Medicine
- Growth in reputation and brand
- Law (legal field)
- Real-estate market
- Immigration gateway
- national security funding
- Presence of retail and hotel brands
- Presence of Class 4 or higher research laboratories
- Logistical purpose (airport, seaport, spaceport, rail ports, intermodal ports (inland port systems for delivery trucks))
I think both areas are trending up, without a doubt, and both are gunning to move up in the pecking order.
- Population growth-Atlanta
- GDP gains-Atlanta by a hair but its close depending on which measure you use.Atlanta has the larger GDP overall
- Income appreciation-Seattle
- Corporate headquarter relocations-Atlanta
- Key industries-Atlanta
- Private Investment-Atlanta but not 100 percent sure.
- Colleges, universities, and research and development firms-Atlanta
- Medicine-Tie
- Growth in reputation and brand-Atlanta by far
- Law (legal field)-Atlanta
- Real-estate market -Atlanta
- Immigration gateway-Seattle
- national security funding-Tie
- Presence of retail and hotel brands-Atlanta has some of the biggest boutique and larger hotel brands anywhere.Its quite impressive as many of them are ranked quite high.
Intercontinental Hotel chain is one that is headquartered theire
- Presence of Class 4 or higher research laboratories-I think Atlanta.It is ranked 5th in the Bio-science industry
- Logistical purpose (airport, seaport, spaceport, rail ports, intermodal ports (inland port systems for delivery trucks))
Atlanta
I mean commute mode share by the Census. In the 2014 ACS, Seattle was 19.6% and Atlanta was 11.0%. CSA was 7.1% to 3.0%.
Your numbers are (a) reflective of Atlanta's much larger size and (b) for single agencies. Seattle has several transit agencies including two big ones.
Regarding companies, I doubt Home Depot, Delta, or UPS have really large headquarters. Thousands yes, but not tens of thousands.
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That doesn't seem right. Seeing how the average 1 br rent in Seattle is over twice the amount you paid-either you really lucked out or it was 1973.
Increasing importance: Greater Atlanta or Greater Seattle
