Thread: Moving to Seattle...

Quote: Originally Posted by GpzGuy I grew up across the river from Portland. More overcast skies and rainy days there than in Seattle. Then you add in the actual people in Oregon and the state income tax and I'll take WA any day Income tax is better than a sales tax IMO. The numbers say Seattle gets more rain than Portland.

Thanks for the help. We have grandparents near Mount Vernon, so that will come in handy when it comes to riding. Also, at the moment, Seattle seems to have a more robust job market than Portland as all you unemployed mountain bikers are moving there just to be unemployed. Could be worst than clouds and rain, could be more like IED's falling from the sky as our current job includes vacations to Southwest Asia.

Quote: Originally Posted by Kona0197 Oregon is great. Seattle has lots of rain. What is the issue? I grew up across the river from Portland. More overcast skies and rainy days there than in Seattle. Then you add in the actual people in Oregon and the state income tax and I'll take WA any day

Quote: Originally Posted by CaliMTBR My wife is interviewing for jobs at two different hospitals in downtown Seattle. I know there is great biking all around Seattle and we are very hopefull that she'll land one of these jobs. What we would like to know since we are not from Seattle is, what are the best neighborhoods to live in that are close to mountain biking? From our brief searches it looks like St. Edward Park has decent riding for...

Have your wife apply to St. Joseph's hospital in Bellingham -- ten minutes pedaling from almost anywhere in town to one of the best trail networks on the west coast. No Seattle traffic. Problem solved. Otherwise, I think Dwight is right. You're either close to downtown Seattle or closer to city parks with trail systems. Might just have to choose.

Quote: Originally Posted by Dwight Moody I live in Mapleleaf, which is on the north end still in Seattle proper. I live in maple leaf too! To the OP....Yeah... if you want to live close to trails, I'd suggest issaquah plateu, that puts you close to Duthi Hill, Tiger Mountain, tokul east/west and other trail systems. But, then you'll have a commute to get downtown and traffic can be BAD. Personally, I've come around to...

Quote: Originally Posted by Kona0197 I hope you enjoy overcast skies and rain. This coming from a "Oregon is the best place in the world" guy?

Your better off living near the job then living near the trails. Commuting in Seattle ranks as one of the all time suckola activities. When I lived up there I lived in the Fremont area and biked to work. It's much easier to bike to work 5 days a week and drive to the trailheads on the weekend than to drive to work 5 days a week and ride to the trailheads. That said, it wasn't that far of a ride on the BG to St. Edwards Park from...

There are a couple of clubs in the area. Evergreenmtb has a pretty good website with links to a lot of trails in the area. www.evergreenmtb.org

wherever the truck hat/tight ass jean wearing hipsters are, go in the opposite direction.