All the violent protests have me terrified of moving the Puget area (Seattle: homes, neighborhood)

[nowhereman427]

Originally Posted by Diana Holbrook

There's lots of great places to live in Washington outside of Seattle. And the further you get from Seattle, the more diverse and balanced the politics are. These are crazy times, but typically we coexist pretty well.

Seattle always reminded me of San Francisco. Only that it rains alot more in Seattle than SF. More green up in the state of Washington.

[xPlorer48]

Originally Posted by Diana Holbrook

There's lots of great places to live in Washington outside of Seattle. And the further you get from Seattle, the more diverse and balanced the politics are. These are crazy times, but typically we coexist pretty well.

What Diana said. Try other areas along the I5 corridor. Whatcom and Skagit counties for refinery work if you get into industrial electric work. The rest of us ignore Seattle. It is digging its own grave.

[Seacove]

Originally Posted by xPlorer48

What Diana said. Try other areas along the I5 corridor. Whatcom and Skagit counties for refinery work if you get into industrial electric work. The rest of us ignore Seattle. It is digging its own grave.

The rest of the state may ignore Seattle but they sure like taking the $3Billion a year Seattle gives them because they can't pay their own bills and they need King County's tax money to do it.

[Diana Holbrook]

Originally Posted by Seacove

The rest of the state may ignore Seattle but they sure like taking the $3Billion a year Seattle gives them because they can't pay their own bills and they need King County's tax money to do it.

You always say this about the tax structure of WA... Tell me, how would you solve this problem if you could?

[elan]

Originally Posted by dg628

To put it bluntly I was gonna move to WA ( from San Diego )because I could find work , get much better pay and eventually join the strong union presence ( building trades) but I’m honestly terrified of the direction the whole PNW is taking.


Things are getting way out of control and the BLM riots are only making it worse.

Not taking a political stance but as a white dude I’m terrified of moving there or any of the major PNW cities.

I just saw a video where recently a guy in Portland was chased down and beaten bloody for sticking up for an old man and another of a man getting beaten for waving an American flag

Here they are





I mean I would love the rainforests , mountains , the sound and the coast but it’s not worth getting killed over just because I’m white , not a liberal or maybe because I have a U.S. Flag sticker somewhere on my truck.

I’m terrified if I move to Seattle I’ll get pulled out of my truck and beaten to death. I’m not exaggerating I’m seriously worried about it.

So much ive just been looking at moving to Texas or possibly Arizona.

I can’t believe the cowardly politicians allow this. How is this not domestic terrorism ? Beating people bloody because they don’t agree with you ?

I know these happened in Portland but be real , I could find plenty of examples in Seattle.

Do people who live there really hate white people this much ? Or anyone who isn’t a super progressive ?

Not trying to encite An argument , I’ve never been to the PNW so I don’t know how bad it really is

My daughter lives a little over an hour north of Seattle. She lives there because it is beautiful, she's on the water. She doesn't go into Seattle anymore because of safety concerns. She has never experienced any racism in her community north of Seattle. She can't however make it known that she is not a loonie leftist, so keep your mouth shut. Good luck.

[pnwguy2]

To echo other posts here, Seattle's recent unrest is only happening in some isolated areas. The city itself remains safe.
And yes, the media likes to pump up the story as if the entire city is burning. Nothing could be further from the truth.

And Seacove...you just don't quit with this concept that Seattle is paying for the entire state. Not true. Show more specific stats please.

[fnh]

^^^ Seacove is correct. With 39 counties, roughly half of the entire Washington state budget revenue comes from King County alone.

State Expenditures & Revenues by County
https://ofm.wa.gov/sites/default/fil...s_revenues.pdf

[homesinseattle]

Originally Posted by Seacove

So ignoring all the dire predictions of terrifying protests and coming anyway? What happened to Texas and Arizona? We can't seem to keep people away no matter how hard we try.

Funny, Seacove.

[Seacove]

Originally Posted by Diana Holbrook

You always say this about the tax structure of WA... Tell me, how would you solve this problem if you could?

Make each county pay their own bills. If the county can't pay for their own schools, police and infrastructure, they need to join a county that can. $3 BILLION a year to 33 other counties in the state while those same counties take the money while insulting Seattle and King County? King County needs to tell them the money stays in King County, we have our own infrastructure to pay for.

Originally Posted by pnwguy2

To echo other posts here, Seattle's recent unrest is only happening in some isolated areas. The city itself remains safe.
And yes, the media likes to pump up the story as if the entire city is burning. Nothing could be further from the truth.

And Seacove...you just don't quit with this concept that Seattle is paying for the entire state. Not true. Show more specific stats please.

Come on, you know it's true. Everyone knows it's true.

"Punch line: The entire state is mooching off King County, not the other way around.

It turns out King County taxpayers exported a record $2.95 billion to prop up the state’s other counties in 2016, the most recent year studied, according to OFM. About 37 cents of every dollar of state taxes paid by King County taxpayers was spent elsewhere."

‘Why are we exporting billions of dollars around the state?’ The coming showdown over Seattle’s money
https://www.seattletimes.com/seattle...eattles-money/

[toodie]

I wouldn’t move back to Seattle under any circumstances. It’s gone down the drain.