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Moving to WA - should I go to Vancouver-area or Seattle-area?

#44
Tons of stuff to do here. The wierdest thing is the population of Western Wa seems to be 99.900% white, so there is a lot of missing shops, foods, etc if your coming from a bigger City
 
#45
Man, I would LOVE to be able to live in a townhouse, but past experiences have taught me that I would drive my neighbors just about as batty as they'd drive me. 9/10 they tend to be 'normals' - wife, kids, mortgage, the full catastrophe - as such they don't take kindly to me practicing the upright, rehearsing a band in the basement/garage, or any myriad of things that a musician may get up to from time to time (and lets not even get into the weird hours...) :-)

But yeah, if you hear of any single-family homes going for about that in the area, I'd definitely be interested.
 
#46
You know if your working from home you can get a very nice house on the Kitsap Peninsula. Poulsbo, kingston, silverdale, and Bremerton. All nice and affordable
 
#49
Y'know, I took a look at those areas, and they ARE very cool! My whole thing right now is that I want to get as close to the city as possible so that I can (hopefully) maximize my band-involvement potential. Back out in Boston, the cats who live *in* the city (Cambridge/Boston) always seemed to have the most paid gigging opportunities. If it turns out not to be the same here, I'll probably end up moving out to the Kitsap/Bremmerton/Tacoma/etc areas after a couple of years just so I'm not paying through the nose for housing.
 
#53
I'd love to move to Bellingham, I absolutely love it up there, but my wife loves Seattle. She claims to have never experienced the Seattle 'freeze'. I don't think I ever really did either, but I did cycle through circles of friends for awhile after first moving here. I think when you have an avocation it's a lot easier. I had music when I first arrived, and not long after took up motorcycling. Of the early friendships I made when I first moved here, those that are ongoing were made via those two activities.
 
#54
I've never lived in Seattle, but I know how to meet some people and fix the freeze.

All I'd need to do is put on my Crimson, go to some WSU Cougar events (whether I'm a Coug or not) and I'd have friends in the area pretty quickly.

I have real doubts about 'the freeze". Many people just aren't that good at meeting others and networking...it has always been one of my strengths.
 
#55
I thought so too Pilgrim. I'm like you and good at making friends so it doesn't bother me as much, but there is definitely some truth to it. It's not just a collection of socially awkward people who coined the term. Heck it took me moving away and coming back to even notice it.

Even then, it isn't saying a person won't/can't make friends, it's the impersonal level that the connections are made. There are many interesting theories for the phenomenon.

-Mike
 

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