If you want to be relatively close to Seattle, look into areas around Tacoma. I live in unincorporated King county near Federal Way. It’s much more reasonable than areas closer to the city, but is still less than an hour from downtown.

Or edit the wikipage and start this rumor. I'm assuming there's a wikipage for the WA flag, if not, add it to the state's wikipage.

Not Shelton.

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Also, Washington Trails Association's website is FAR better than Reddit for trail reports.

Agreed on avoiding Aberdeen/Hoquiam, there’s not too many places more depressing and poverty stricken of that size in the state. If your teen has a car and can drive, somewhere within 30 minutes of Bellingham might be viable for $300k, but even then you might be pretty limited. Otherwise places decent for walkability/bikeability/public transport are gonna be outside your budget unfortunately unless you’re looking at 0b/1b condos

Is that the Goat Rocks with Adams in the distance?

> bremerton is super sketchy

When was the last time you were in Bremerton?

A friend of mine moved from Seattle to Shelton and she likes it. I think Shelton is still low Tiflis because it’s got a bad reputation from back in the day.

I love both places. They are definitely different and for me in one important way. In Washington there is more wilderness and craggy mountains. The only place I haven’t felt this way in the NE was in New Hampshire. But that’s just my opinion.

I bought this from the kickstarter and fly it daily. I love it!

oh, maybe it’s improved. I usually just go for concerts and had my horse in PO for a while, PO seemed fine but bremerton had a lot of car break ins and addicts/homeless, at least in that area

That hike is on my list this summer!

i looked up your symptoms on webmd and it looks like...youre gonna die next week. sorry dude

Gorgeous! We did Skyline late last year, couldn't believe some of the views.

>To me, a coat of arms echoes everything about European royalty that the American revolution was intended to reject.

May I first just challenge what is a common American conception of coats of arms. These were never the exclusive property of royalty. In many parts of Europe they weren't even exclusive to nobility; for example, each member of a medieval Dutch town council or the equivalent of a chamber of commerce would be expected to have their own coat of arms by which they were identified. And some of the best coats of arms come out of Switzerland, somewhere that has been without royalty for longer than the US! :-)

>I'd rather see a flag that incorporates the state's physical wonders: mountains, trees, water.

That is completely fair enough. That message has been coming across from other commenters too.

>But hats off to you for taking a stab at anything that would replace our bland currrent flag.

Thank you. It was a fun exercise, if nothing else.

SW Washington. Clark County has become expensive over the last few years but Cowlitz is less so. Lewis County is another one.

Mt Stuart.

It’s great but completely unaffordable. Like 750k for a basic house.

Glacier peak is too far north to see from there, that's gotta be mount Stuart

Vancouver's gotten pretty pricey and I'd be surprised if there's anything in their price range here.

Edit to add: according to Redfin, the median home price in Vancouver last month was $475k.

Wow wow wow wow 😮

Nah it’s fine here. It actually checks the OP’s boxes too as long as they’re ok with 300k getting a 600sf house it’s doable. I’m gay and have gay friends here as well as seeing pride flags. Sure, there’s some trumpies and what not but I’ve been here over a year and had no issues anywhere with that. The queer people I live with have been here much longer. If you just mean drugs and shit by “sketchy” it is no worse than south snoho county. I lived there for years.

Don't know if it's still true, but Spokane has been known in the past to have a number of gay bars. So assuming you'd be okay there.

From Philly, I feel the same except for the food. The Philly food scene is amazing but anywhere outside the city is just so so bad. In Washington I've found that outside of cities I can still get decent food. The same goes for coffee.