seattle continues to be popular, sits with cool kids at lunch
Maybe one of the reasons Seattle’s housing bubble [sb] refuses to burst is because record numbers of people are moving here. To them, I pose this question: What keeps you coming? And was cost of living a determining factor in your moving here?
Just curious.
Thanks to Russ at Portland Metblogs [mb] for finding the chart below.
Cost of living was a positive factor in my choice to move to Seattle. Without state or city income tax, living in Seattle feels almost like living in a third-world-country compared to my prior habitat of NYC.
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Seattle’s cost of living as a positive factor in moving to Seattle — I guess only people from NYC and California would say that :)
New York and California transplants don’t count (no offense - I was once both). You guys are getting a great deal here. I’m more curious about the people who move here from the other areas of the country. Dumb question, maybe, but I would imagine that some people were quite surprised by the expense of living here.
Well, I moved here from the Tampa/St. Petersburg area because Florida is a no good very bad place, and Seattle’s cost of living is still an acceptable trade-off for getting to be here.
But then, in early 2003 it was still a major renter’s market here, and they were pretty much giving away apartments.
It is expensive in every area in the USA where it doesn’t suck.
I moved to Seattle from Chicago in December 2005 because I was trying to escape all the bs drama back home, plus my love and future husband is working on his masters degree as well as his PhD @ UW.
To be honest, I miss Chicago every now and then. It’s not bad, but sometimes I wish I was back on the east coast (I previously lived in DC and for some undetermined reason, I loved it there).
I think the above represents me and what I think… hopefully.