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Old 07-21-2006, 12:21 PM
 
Location: Colorado
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Hi all - I live in a small town in the colorado mtns near Boulder and am pondering a move to the NW in the next year or so. I've always liked it up there but have never lived there. I've visited there a number of times, even feb and may visits (which in 2005 ended up being mostly sunny times altho I know that's atypical, right?) Here in the Mtns it's definitely beautiful, and I know folks are going to wonder what the heck I'm thinking , but I've been in the CO area for almost 30 years and think I'd really like a change. Ready to be around more people than I have been in this little town. Not interested in staying in CO in general - too hot and bare (no woods along the front range) and brown most of the year. My politics are more lefty, can afford a home in the 250-280-ish range, like outdoor activities, including watery ones like sea kayaking. Seattle proper seems way expensive, but I wonder about the areas up north of the metro area. What are folks' impressions of those areas? Blue collar? Wht collar? Politics? Retirement areas or more mixed? (I'm 47 and newly single, so not quite ready for the retirement community yet - the town where I live now has a lot of retirees and snowbirds.) Just wanting general impressions - what do these places "feel" like?

Thanks a ton! Glad I found these forums.
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Old 07-21-2006, 09:11 PM
 
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Default Edmonds, Shorline Lynnwood

Nice areas generally speaking, Edmonds and Shorline will be very expensive anywhere near the sound. Lynnwood is pretty typical suburban living, it has a huge shopping center called Alderwood. I have to tell you though you will not find anything in the urban Seattle-Everett area for $250K, anything you would want to live in anyway. I think the average home price in this area is about $425K, I believe is what I read in the Times. I'm not sure how far you would need to travel to hit the 250 price range, maybe Olympia if you look hard or on the coast, Monesanto, Aberdeen Hoquiam or north of Bellingham, Ferndale Lynden?

Good Ludk
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