[–] 0110001111 0 points 1 point 1 point (+1|-0) ago
Yeah when I was there, I really could not see the appeal of wanting to live there. The rent was 2x what i payed at the time, in the northeast. And i was living in city centre at the time, so not like i was playing it cheap. Seattle also has a severe,noticeable homeless problem, which is saying something, since I was living in one of the poorest metro cities in the Northeast, compromised of 85% black people. The food was alright, and there were some fun markets, but overall nothing I would need. When you factor cost of living vs salary of the area, I found I would make more money staying where i am making 20K less, then i would, moving to Seattle. Also I personally prefer Texas over either the Northeast and the West, but I am annoyed that there's so many Cali plates. Just seeing them makes me annoyed.
[–] 10046880? ago
Yeah. It's funny as Seattle people think they're so fucking rich and intelligent because of their paycheck size.. but they don't understand that they spend so much fucking money just to SURVIVE that middle class people in many other states are actually better off than them... as most of them haven't taken a single toe past the PNW, they have no concept of how fucked Seattle is.
The food in Seattle isn't bad if you know where to go. But you'd also have to love Asian/Mexican food. Otherwise yeah it's just average. There's only one, MAYBE two good greek places and the German village, Leavenworth, is cool but not worth the food and it's literally just a gimmicky ''buy literal shit'' place. Seattle becomes 100% stale within 2 months.
I haven't been to Texas myself, yet. But I have a cousin who lives there and she and her husband like it. It seems like it'd be a solid place, and a strong economy, outside of the more liberal (insane) parts as PNW people started moving there. Fucking Cali..
[–] 0110001111 ago
Yup the economy in Texas is really nice. Me and my wife love it. It' such a nice state, we want to stay here. Saddly we need to move to the Bethesda area soon, which we both dread. I've talked about how i may need to either sell/transfer my guns to someone, since guns are essentially verboten in the DC area.