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I moved from the Seattle area back to the Midwest, and the suburbs are great. There is something very relaxing about seeing kids walking home from school with

I moved from the Seattle area back to the Midwest, and the suburbs are great. There is something very relaxing about seeing kids walking home from school with a variety of crossing guards, no homeless camps, parks that fill on weekends with families, well maintained roads and google fiber. I'd advertise where... but nah

seanmcdirmid 3y ago
You could have just moved to Bellevue, Issaquah, Mercer Island, Mill Creek, or Bothell…it’s not like the Seattle area doesn’t have that.
- lotsoweiners 3y ago
  Probably at double the price. I had a friend who moved from Phoenix to Bellevue for work and paid twice as much for his apartment as he was for his house in Phoenix.
  - seanmcdirmid 3y ago
    That’s true. You are also likely to make a lot more money there (or if one can’t get those jobs, living in those places is not really an option). Having lived in a Midwest suburb as a kid (Sylvania near Toledo), they seem cheap because the jobs to support a booming real estate market just aren’t present.
- mathgladiator 3y ago
  I lived I'm bellevue and kirkland, and it wasn't that great. The best place was Bainbridge Island, but even it had problems with needles in parks and beaches.
  - seanmcdirmid 3y ago
    Wasn't great based on your criteria of no homeless camps, good schools, crossing guards, parks that fill on weekends, well maintained roads, and good internet (Century Link fiber is great when it works, and works often)? Are you sure you were living in the same Bellevue that I was living in? Bainbridge island is nice, but I wouldn't really call it a suburb of Seattle. Also, needles are what you get when you are living in a conifer heavy climate zone.
    - mathgladiator 3y ago
      I was referring to syringes at so many parks. Everytime I brought family out, it was embarrassing. I was close to the downtown cores of both Bellevue and kirkland. I'm sure there are pockets that are nice, but now imagine a significantly larger area where the problems are exceptions rather the the rule. I feel so many people have Stockholm syndrome when it comes to the area.
      - seanmcdirmid 3y ago
        I lived just off main in Bellevue before moving to Ballard. The downtown park (< 5 minute walk) filled up all the time. I saw a syringe in Bellevue once though, not at a park but in a run down strip mall parking lot. I’ve never seen a syringe in bainbridge on any trip there with the kid (we often hop on the ferry in the summer). That being said, I bought a house/moved to Ballard because I wanted a more urban lifestyle for my kid (now kindergartener going to a SPS school). Bellevue is clean, but boring. These days, syringes are pretty much gone, as addicts have moved from heroin to fentanyl. I would be shocked if Toledo (and sylvania and the other suburbs I knew) was missing that somehow.

seanmcdirmid 3y ago

You could have just moved to Bellevue, Issaquah, Mercer Island, Mill Creek, or Bothell…it’s not like the Seattle area doesn’t have that.

lotsoweiners 3y ago
Probably at double the price. I had a friend who moved from Phoenix to Bellevue for work and paid twice as much for his apartment as he was for his house in Phoenix.
- seanmcdirmid 3y ago
  That’s true. You are also likely to make a lot more money there (or if one can’t get those jobs, living in those places is not really an option). Having lived in a Midwest suburb as a kid (Sylvania near Toledo), they seem cheap because the jobs to support a booming real estate market just aren’t present.
mathgladiator 3y ago
I lived I'm bellevue and kirkland, and it wasn't that great. The best place was Bainbridge Island, but even it had problems with needles in parks and beaches.
- seanmcdirmid 3y ago
  Wasn't great based on your criteria of no homeless camps, good schools, crossing guards, parks that fill on weekends, well maintained roads, and good internet (Century Link fiber is great when it works, and works often)? Are you sure you were living in the same Bellevue that I was living in? Bainbridge island is nice, but I wouldn't really call it a suburb of Seattle. Also, needles are what you get when you are living in a conifer heavy climate zone.
  - mathgladiator 3y ago
    I was referring to syringes at so many parks. Everytime I brought family out, it was embarrassing. I was close to the downtown cores of both Bellevue and kirkland. I'm sure there are pockets that are nice, but now imagine a significantly larger area where the problems are exceptions rather the the rule. I feel so many people have Stockholm syndrome when it comes to the area.
    - seanmcdirmid 3y ago
      I lived just off main in Bellevue before moving to Ballard. The downtown park (< 5 minute walk) filled up all the time. I saw a syringe in Bellevue once though, not at a park but in a run down strip mall parking lot. I’ve never seen a syringe in bainbridge on any trip there with the kid (we often hop on the ferry in the summer). That being said, I bought a house/moved to Ballard because I wanted a more urban lifestyle for my kid (now kindergartener going to a SPS school). Bellevue is clean, but boring. These days, syringes are pretty much gone, as addicts have moved from heroin to fentanyl. I would be shocked if Toledo (and sylvania and the other suburbs I knew) was missing that somehow.