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Business, Economics, and Taxes: Capitalism. Yay? >=(

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It's Seattle/the Seattle metro area. There are several other expensive places where I'd rather live if you're content to pay those prices.
 
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Jimjamesak said:
FYP. Not Seattle.
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Yeah you have to clarify the east side, not Seattle. I’d gladly overpay to live on east side if I was really wealthy. I love Kirkland and surrounding areas but that’s where my family lives so it feels like home.
 
dxmnkd316 said:
Northern Minnesota or the UP for me. Just buy an assload of land and some claymores.
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Yes, I could also see me buying up lots of land in the Keweenaw and building a whole compound. In fact, that's probably attainable in my lifetime compared to being independently wealthy enough to line the right pockets necessary to live overseas. The problem is, what happens when you get to be 65+ and need a good hospital nearby? Because UPHS-Portage isn't suitable for anything worse than a heart attack.
 
I would live somewhere where the weather doesn't suck half the time. That would likely be nowhere in this country. I will say though the weather in Seattle the year I lived there was 1000% better than Minnesota. Temp never dropped below 29 degrees (that was the first major Polar Vortex in Minnesota) and the rain was never as bad as people pretended it was. Plus you didn't have to go to work if it snowed an inch...even at the firm I was clerking at.

Seattle is fine, I enjoyed my time there but the price to live there is fucking ridiculous. It is so blatantly overpriced it makes Minneapolis look reasonable. At least other places priced that high have somewhat legitimate reasons for it...Seattle has none of it except I guess Amazon. Seattle pricing is the diamond pricing of the housing market. People believe it should be that expensive so it is when in reality it is about 200% too high. (diamonds are 300% at least but you get my point) Even ten years ago there was nothing close to a housing shortage yet the prices never went down and were set to skyrocket as more condos were built and gentrification was in full bloom. Even if I hadn't wanted to leave I had about 3-4 months left there because even the craptastic housing I was living in near campus (your basic transient drug dealer housing and that is not hyperbole) was being torn down for half million dollar condos on streets that smelled of urine and had no view of anything. I was making 40k a year I was out. I can only imagine what "The Ave" looks like now or any of the cooler artsy neighborhoods like Fremont. The greddy Yuppy Hipsters will destroy that like they destroyed Uptown here.
 
Handyman said:
I would live somewhere where the weather doesn't suck half the time. That would likely be nowhere in this country.
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Be creative.

Portland, June - August
Ithaca, September
Phoenix, October - March
Chapel Hill, April - May

Those 4 furnished houses will cost you less than one in Seattle or San Francisco. Including the airfare.

And you can stock each... if you know what I mean.

(I mean with candy. Don't be gross.)
 
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Kepler said:
Just go to central Norway. Same thing but you'd have healthcare. And the women are prettier and smarter.
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Eh, I don't need or want anyone but my wife.

THe healthcare, like you and Fade point out, is important. I feel like northern minnesota has pretty decent options.
 
Spartanforlife4 said:
I think that narrows it down to San Diego.
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Not really a fan. My sister lives there, and granted, the only time I visited her was in December, and yeah, it was in the 60's, but the houses have no insulation, so when you'd get up in the morning, it was always freezing cold. And there was always a pretty good breeze coming in off the ocean making it feel cooler than it actually was.
 
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