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Pullman is one of the few cities that provides transportation within the city to wherever you want to go for whatever purpose. It is 40 cents to each destination. This means a lot when neither husband nor wife want to or are safe to drive. It means even more to a single spouse. Except in the summer and holidays it operates until 12:30a.m. daily and longer on Saturday, so you can go to concerts, theatre, entertainment, morning, noon, and night. You can go out to lunch, and to the grocery store. Only Shopko and a few other stores are here but Wal-Mart is coming, and we're working on a full mall at the borderline of Moscow and Pullman. There is a full mall at that Moscow borderline but the service, called Dial-A-Ride does not go outside of Pullman. You can get plenty of student help at $10 an hour and it is the best I have ever had. If you do have a car, there are plenty of entertainment events at the University of Idaho in Moscow, ID. Pullman has a bad-looking "main" street called Grand Avenue because most of it is owned by the railroad and they have their tracks and cars there that they don't use any more. But we're working on that too. WSU has lots of teams and games. So does U of Idaho. Anywhere you go, if you smile, you'll get a smile. There is no way you'll have as many friends as the oldtimers here because they've lived here all their lives, but more and more people are coming from all over the world including all of America. There are several developments built for retired people to purchase, but unfortunately not to rent. There are plenty of student rentals that usually run tops at $600 for a 2-bedroom. Pullman was recently poll-rated high as a good place to retire. Senator Susan Collins of Maine brought it up in the Senate after she was in a small town where they have this kind of transportation system for the elderly. If the elderly can't afford to purchase living quarters and can live independently, they can rent one of the many apartments. Cheers, Dac Gullicksen
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Pullman is one of the few cities that provides transportation within the city to wherever you want to go for whatever purpose. It is 40 cents to each destination. ... ... If the elderly can't afford to purchase living quarters and can live independently, they can rent one of the many apartments. Cheers, Dac Gullicksen
Pullman gets my vote, as I would live in onecho (just west) if my other half was a 'prairie rat' as I am... been trying to change that mindset for 20 yrs... (it's brown and dusty, and NO trees). I always point out the couple trees next to the mobile home... but no luck yet. What does it cost to lap swim and to attend (senior audit) classes at WSU?
What would taxes on an average home or condo in Pullman be? (what is mil rate?)
Hopefully not what we are paying on the 'we t-side' of the cascades. I am feeling it would be best to rent if choosing to retire in WA, (especially with current legislation, like NO super-majority required for school bonds ) )or to own a commercial building with an apartment and charge the business tenants 'triple-net' (including taxes).
How is the commercial real estate market in Pullman?, or does everyone shop in Moscow to get a better deal on sales taxes. (but not as good as deal as the Vancouver folks get in PDX... = zero ST) Having Moscow close would be of great advantage, as they have a really nice campus, and lots more arts and concerts, and a good place to get bio-diesel and RV education
if i knew i had to retire in pullman washington honestly i would run off the edge of a cliff screaming. I lived there 3 years and my sanity finally returned when I moved out. When my children moved there my eldest at age 14 went to his room in the basement shut the door and said "I am counting the days until I can move out of this ***** town" which he did and he did.
One day I randomly was searching the internet, seriously contemplating joining the Peace Corps to get out of there (I was 43 at the time) and what quote appeared on my screen, but this one, a quote from a Pullman woman who said "I knew I just had to get out of Pullman Washington or I would lose my mind."
What didn't I like? Too conservative, too racially UNdiverse and INtolerant unless you are a white Christian, too far of a drive to get from there to anywhere I wanted to go. And I am not a big city girl! I love living in small towns, I love simple beauty of nature, I love a quiet life. But Pullman....AAAAAAAAAgh
Take a glance at the first post, that big, long, unbroken block of gray type that just puts me to sleep....that's how I felt living in Pullman Washington
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) )or to own a commercial building with an apartment and charge the business tenants 'triple-net' (including taxes). 
