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Old 10-25-2009, 08:28 AM
 
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I am relocating to the WA area from San Diego, CA. I have a 3 year old and I am looking for information to help me seek out the best neighborhoods to look for living.

I will be renting a house. Looking for a nice & affordable area in Seattle suburbs under $1900 month. Excellent preschools. I am looking for a very child friendly area, with parks close by, a community center with monthly child activities calendar,& library close by.

Easy freeway access with the location to ideally have traffic in the opposite direction in the morning/evening.
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Old 10-25-2009, 09:39 AM
 
Location: Duvall, WA
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I moved from San Diego (Carmel Mountain Ranch), to the Issaquah Highlands. It has everything you're looking for. We have a 1600+ square foot townhome (3 beds/2 baths/2 car garage) and it's less than $1900/month. There's a Montessori school literally around the corner from us, and there are parks all throughout the neighborhood. It is ideal for families. It does not have a reverse commute, but you're not going to live anywhere in the Seattle area that does. It has great freeway access. Issaquah has a community center with children's activities, and the Highlands neighborhood has it's own community center with activities as well.

V. =)
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Old 10-25-2009, 02:52 PM
 
Location: Happiness is found inside your smile :)
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I second Veronika's advice

Issaquah and the rest of the East Side is much more famiy friendly and cleaner and safer for kids.
It's the suburbs

We lived in the heart of Seattle, and I would never put my child on his bike alone, and the schools are subpar in relation to the Eastside. It's Urban-ish
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Old 10-26-2009, 09:25 AM
 
Location: Seattle area
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They are right above to say that you won't usually find opposite-direction-of-traffic around here. Plenty of people live in the burbs and work in Seattle, but then there's lot of people that live in Seattle and work in Bellevue or Redmond. Gridlock every which way.

Do you know where you will be working?
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