Seattle! How is it now? Are there jobs? Should I move there?

ummm anyone feel like vetting a place on queen anne ave n for me on sunday at 5pm?
will pay you in drinks or cook you dinner or something!

capitol hill isn't really my #1 choice

why not?

ya rly. is it seattle center accessibility?

center is just as accessible from cap hill as from most other areas talked about

From the Hill. Getting to Seattle Center is a matter of going to Denny Way and then heading down. Since I take the bus it's a little convoluted, but not horribly so. If you're taking the bus it's an No. 8.

vetting a place on queen anne ave n for me on sunday at 5pm

Mr. Jaq and I can do this thing

omg are you serious? <3 <3 <3 forever, really! email me and i will send details.

the cap hill thing isn't related to seattle center. it's just that i felt other neighborhoods (queen anne, fremont, etc.) were prettier and i felt more 'at home' in them. i liked the area up closer to volunteer park though - near cornish? v pretty. but the more 'main drag' areas seemed like fewer trees, more people, and more of a destination than place to live.

that's definitely true of the main drag. but i think the more residential parts are some of the prettier parts of seattle.

i'm thinking specifically of the area just east of vol park - may be expensive and mostly family homes i guess. madison valley, which is supposed to be relatively cheaper, seems like a nice area.

tza, have webmailed you.

My favorite neighborhoods for prettiness are Montlake, Mt. Baker, Madrona/Denny Blaine. Spendy and sort of less transit accessible though, esp. Madrona.

just wrote you back! <3

I understand completely about Cap Hill, and I'm no chamber of commerce, but I will say that I really like my area of it on 15th--great neighborhood, very unlike the rest of the Hill in feel. But I adore Lower Queen Anne and Wallingford and I hope to eventually move to one of those neighborhoods.

and yeah, my place on 15th is about three blocks from Volunteer Park. not that the weather this week has been especially conductive to visiting it (or leaving the house).

wait does that mean you're not moving?

someone just emailed me about a place at 13th/pine. i checked street maps and it's right by the gay bar where my friends and i somehow ended up in someone's picture. also, the next day, we saw lots of people decked out for leather fest or something.

I take the 8 sometimes too, on Denny. Last time I went down Broadway I was shocked at all the buildings that were down, whole blocks of nothing but rubble, even near the community college. Just shocking to see all that. I guess it's true I never go there anymore so this all probably happened ages ago.

I would love to live at 13th & Pine, btw. I'm not planning on moving anytime soon, though. I'm comfortable here in N. Seattle.

I HAS AN APARTMENT!!!!!!!!!!!!

OOOH! Where?

awesomely awesome. what neighborhood?

xp

middle queen anne!
(thankig u, jaq!)

Hooray! Rah the tza.

Fantastic!

halfway between our lingbert and trader joe's. i'd say ideal

that hill is gonna be so great for my ass.

FINALLY!! Congrats, TZA!!!

Ummm xp! xp!

ha

lol

ILOLX at its finest

gree hee hee

guys, i already love seattle apartments! my lease came with like 20 pages of tenants rights info :)
ny landlords can suck it.

i don't get the paying for water/sewer thing though.

Utilities are strange here - some places we've lived had W/S/G paid, one had W/S and gas (for the stove) paid. Others have paid for no utilities whatsoever. One place paid for gas (had a gas fireplace, no gas stove), nothing else. This current place pays for water/sewer/garbage and steam heat. It's all over the place.

weird. in ny state landlords pay for all the water/sewer/trash. if you live in a building with more than 3 units, they are required to pay heat/electric/gas as well.

ah well.

one of my coworkers gave me this fun fact on my last day:

the names of the twelve streets in the heart of the central business district are paired by their first letters. from south to north, they are: jefferson, james, cherry, colombia, marion, madison, spring, seneca, university, union, pike, pine. one way to remember the order of the street pairs is with the mnemonic "jesus christ made seattle under protest" (JCMSUP).

:)

or "jesus christ man, 'sup?!"

jc made shit UP

lol

ok, see u june 17!

Wow, I've lived here for ten years and even though I've made mental groupings in my head of those streets, it never occured to me that so many of them start with the same letters like that.

what is the best san juan for a day trip?

orcas is nice, but the people can be grumpy.

go see the alpacas if you're there, and consider staying overnight at juniper lane guest house. juniper is very nice and it is quite inexpensive.

certainly i will do an overnight at some point, but not this time as my visiting friend is only here a few days and we have much to do.

Victoria is nice!

lol i just saw a bunch of alpacas in peru. i got so tired of people trying to sell me ugly sweaters. so cholo! so ethnic!

why are orcas people crabby?

lean like a cholo (in an ugly sweater)

the ppl there are just kind of territorial and not tremendously fond of mainlanders, I guess? I dunno, it's been a while since I've been there

as far as accessibility/first time visit i would rate them:
san juan island
orcas
lopez
shaw

shaw would rate higher if the nuns still ran the ferry terminal there

SJI is pretty easy. make a loop from friday harbor: roche harbor, english camp, lime kiln, american camp. that western side of the island facing victoria is one of my favorite places