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[5Toes]

Thanks I'll research that! Did you happen to live there? How expensive is it?

I do live here. Snoddy lives down the road in Poulsbo.

I did some stuff for GG when he wanted to move up here.

Just to give you an idea. It would be great to have you as another E30 in "B-town". Haha Bremerton is truly nice, and I have no clue why so many people hate it. I'd also say stick to the East side, as the West is where the problems are. Manette is where I live, but that may be out of your price range? Also the traffic is way better on the east side. Barely any stop lights once you get off the main drag.

So anyways, according to me Mum, we pay $46 every two monthes for our trash. That includes yard waste and recycling.

We pay $170 a month, year round, for our electric. We are a family of four though, and have a heat pump. My Mom says this is a budget plan that makes it that price no matter which month it is or how much we use... something like that.

And our Water is $180 every two monthes, and like I said before we are a family of four, so yours of course will be less. We also have an in ground sprinkler system out front that goes off every couple of days. We all shower daily.

Hope this helps, Andrew

I agree wholeheartedly with Luke, he speaks the truth. Rain here is not bad at all. Get a nice jacket and you'll be fine.

Oh and Bremerton is becoming considered a "suburb of Seattle" now. Seattle is only an hour ferry ride away, and if you get a job downtown its an easy commute.

[DatUtahGuy]

He isn't looking for theaters, he is looking for work. Right?

Indeed, want to build up my resume some more before I move to Cali

[Farbin Kaiber]

He isn't looking for theaters, he is looking for work. Right?

[Mlarsen]

Puget sound, anywhere else is pretty lame imo. If you go north of seattle be careful lots of yuppy folks. Bellevue sucks. Seattle's cool, depends on the neighborhood. I'm biased I love Tacoma. We got The Grand Cinema, has a good rotation of indie flicks.

[PNWDan]

I live North of Seattle about 30 minutes. I grew up south of Seattle but I keep moving further north for some reason. for Indie films you should stay within driving distance of Seattle so pretty much anywhere on the west side of the mountains. Where I live I can hit Seattle in reasonable time or hit the woods on my quad. Its a good balance for what I want.

[bmwm42]

Don't move to Washington. Washington is the only state that gives illegal immigrants drivers licenses. Oregon is the place to go.

Only reason he knows is because he recently moved there to get his after his Oregon license expired Verdad k si whey lol

[jasonsnoddy]

indie films?

sounds like you'll fit right in

That.

[Knoepfler]

indie films?

sounds like you'll fit right in

[Ryann]

Bringing your own girl is HIGHLY recommended, this entire state is a sausage fest. Girls that would be a 4 in San Diego are like 8s here, but think they are 12's.

Lotsa truth in this post, this being the funniest.

[DatUtahGuy]

Truth be told, I like your take on things.

Thanks, don't have any specific questions because I'm an indecisive douche.

[StereoInstaller1]

It rains.

A lot.

Boy, you out ya damn mind.

We barely squeaked into the top 25 in average annual rainfall in the US: http://www.livescience.com/1558-stud...st-cities.html

And that was Olympia!

Basically, the rain you have in SLC never happens here.

NEVER.

It ranges from a sprinkle to a drizzle to a seriously heavy drizzle...but the gigantic thundershowers of the midwest, the absolutely torrential drowning that most of the west get...that kind of truly heavy rain? Never. Yeah, OK, I only been up here since 1988...maybe it was worse before that, but I call bullshit. The little piss rain we get here is hardly all that big a deal at all...but...this place is the least average sunlight in the continental US.

This is the Evergray State.

Bring your own girl is HIGHLY recommended, this entire state is a sausage fest. Girls that would be a 4 in San Diego (where I am actually from, but have lived all over the US) are like 8s here, but think they are 12's.

Seriously. This state has more dorks and geeks than anywhere in the entire US. I fit right in. I freakin love it here.

Outside of Seattle or Vancouver (bedroom community for Portland, literally across a bridge) most everyone who isn't a worker in the technology industry is a fisherman or a logger... and even those grizzly fucks have smart phones and know how to use them. Geek central...the tweekers in the rural areas are both common and insane, as they are in most the US, it seems.

So, small towns outside of the Puget Sound region (google that shit, see how the Puget Sound affects travel patterns. Everywhere you want to go has millions of people on it, going the same way at the same time.) suck. Tiny crappy muddy little shithole towns, full of idiots and rednecks. Women spit.

Most of them also have a fairly new "development" with "incredible deals" on houses...except for the other 200,000 people who are also tired of or incapable of paying housing costs anywhere you want to live. My wifes commute (Renton to Redmond, across the street from a major Microsoft "campus" with every kind of Asian immigrant known to man) is roughly 20 miles actual driving. Her commute typically is 45 minutes at 7:00 AM, one hour and more until friday night, then it is 2 hours to get home.

We have an easy commute. People who want to live in the "nice" areas pay 200% more than we do and have a far worse commute...some of my wifes co-workers drive 2 hours each way...but only like 30 miles!

You can also see this was some fucked up planning. Driving the freeways up here you can see that most of them simply cannot be made bigger. Geography makes it basically impossible. We get taxed to death, BTW. Most every county is over 8%, we are 9.something...sales tax but no personal income tax. Running a business up here is a pain in the ass if that might be on your agenda.

LOTS of fun shit to do, but of course more in the summer when the weather can be just incredible for hours on end sometimes...OK, maybe a day or three, but seriously, Seattle area just had it hottest day EVER last summer (or was it the one before?) of like 97 degrees...but it also is pretty humid alll the time.

Look at the Puget Sound...that is a BUNCH of water, and we huddle around it. It is always wet here, that is where the perception of this being such a rainy place comes from...even though it ain't true. If you suffer from Seasonal Issues, you know, like pollen allergies or just can't handle life without a sun, you might not wanna move here.

All in all I love it here. Wish I had moved here younger, wish I had come straight to Seattle in 1988, instead of hanging around Portland for 15 years, then moving to god-forsaken Springfield, Oregon for another 5...before FINALLY making the move November 2008.

Now, how about you post some actual questions?

Luke

[91greg325i]

Also more interested in where film productions are being, well, produced.

Where are the hotspots for indie films and such, I"m guessing Seattle? Tacoma? Spokane?

I can't speak for anything in Washington, but if you are looking to get into indie films, I highly recommend Portland OR. I know it isn't WA, but you could move to somewhere like Vancouver and be minutes away... Oregon is cool too! ;)

[jasonsnoddy]

If you like living in the woods, olympic peninsula.
If you like doing stuff outside the house, seattle area.
If you want easy access to both, kitsap peninsula.
If you don't like rain, eastern washington.

[Matt-B]

Vancouver, maybe downtown, or near the vancouver mall. This is washington btw.

About 5 mn from portland. Hardly any traffic. Close to about 100 e30 peeps

[DatUtahGuy]

Last time I check I was brown. Y yo hablo espanol. Hrm. lol

You're right, I'm the racist prick, my bad.

As we were.