What are the best towns to live in near Seattle? Which ones have the best housing accommodations? I'm impressed with Bremerton but it seems somewhat far away from the city. Ideally, we'd like to work in Seattle but live elsewhere. Are there any suggestions?What are the best towns to live in near the Seattle area?
I lived in Lynnwood for about 7 years and really liked "hub city" because it was, well, centrally located with plenty of amenities nearby including vehicular 'exits' to just about anywhere in the Pacific Northwest. But Lynnwood itself still had a small town lifestyle about it, and a wonderful Lutheran Church nearby ... 2nd largest in the NW Synod area.
As editor of the Washington Kayak Club, it was easy enough to head to Seattle downtown to the REI Flagship store where meetings were held, or to Redmond for our Paddle Board meetings. There were plenty of parks, walking %26amp; biking trails, including the Interurban Trail within a 5-minute walk (less by bicycle), plenty of paddling available, and even a Bible Study Fellowship in nearby Everett, WA, -- all within an easy drive, -- even bicycled to Discovery Park near Downtown west where I loved to stop in at the seafood market @ Salmon Bay, and to Everett to the north.
Plenty of friends liked Camano Island, or Whidbey Island (but the latter generally requires a ferry ride to get on or off the Island unless you take an hourly drive or more to the north land-bound entrance). Personally, just about anywhere around Seattle is good, but some areas seemed more 'polluted' than others. Maybe you may want to take a look at places like Port Townsend, with its small town charm and seclusion or NorthBend near Snoqualmie Pass, which are still well within a reasonable commute to Seattle, but the commute to work is still going to be a big-city hassle anyway you look at it. Seattle's light rail mass transit should help when completed.
One of the things I did was visit the Seattle area for a week during a couple of the seasons, staying in a motel pretty much off I-5 North of downtown Seattle. Each time I rented a car for the week and almost every morning I made sure I had a full tank of gas making big, loping loops to each of the cardinal points of the compass. Really liked the countryside, but decided to live intown, and settled on Lynnwood, though sometimes I regret I did not move out to places like Spokane or Wenatchee, or even Bellingham.
Enjoy, ... and when and if you get there, when you're looking one way across the Sound to the Olympics and the other way across town to the Cascades or out there on the Olympic Peninsula enjoying the Rainforest, just send me a thought to remind me what a pleasure it was being there!
You know dude there is lot of areas where you want to live.What are the best towns to live in near the Seattle area?
Easy... Find out what part of Seattle Amanda Knox lives in.. Move to the other side of town.
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