ya rly. is it seattle center accessibility?
― gabbneb being gabbneb (gabbneb), Friday, 8 May 2009 05:49 (fifteen years ago) link
center is just as accessible from cap hill as from most other areas talked about
― magna cum lord (The Reverend), Friday, 8 May 2009 06:19 (fifteen years ago) link
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.
― Matos W.K., Friday, 8 May 2009 08:35 (fifteen years ago) link
vetting a place on queen anne ave n for me on sunday at 5pm
Mr. Jaq and I can do this thing
― Jaq, Friday, 8 May 2009 13:36 (fifteen years ago) link
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.
― tehresa, Friday, 8 May 2009 14:06 (fifteen years ago) link
that's definitely true of the main drag. but i think the more residential parts are some of the prettier parts of seattle.
― gabbneb being gabbneb (gabbneb), Friday, 8 May 2009 14:09 (fifteen years ago) link
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.
― gabbneb being gabbneb (gabbneb), Friday, 8 May 2009 14:24 (fifteen years ago) link
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.
― Jaq, Friday, 8 May 2009 15:44 (fifteen years ago) link
just wrote you back! <3
― tehresa, Friday, 8 May 2009 16:12 (fifteen years ago) link
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.
― Matos W.K., Friday, 8 May 2009 18:31 (fifteen years ago) link
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).
― Matos W.K., Friday, 8 May 2009 18:35 (fifteen years ago) link
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.
― tehresa, Friday, 8 May 2009 18:53 (fifteen years ago) link
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.
― Tupperware Honey and Asshole Weeks (Bimble), Saturday, 9 May 2009 04:34 (fifteen years ago) link
I HAS AN APARTMENT!!!!!!!!!!!!
― ricardos montalban (tehresa), Monday, 18 May 2009 18:15 (fifteen years ago) link
OOOH! Where?
― The-Reverend (rev), Monday, 18 May 2009 18:16 (fifteen years ago) link
awesomely awesome. what neighborhood?
― friend (jergins), Monday, 18 May 2009 18:16 (fifteen years ago) link
xp
middle queen anne!(thankig u, jaq!)
― ricardos montalban (tehresa), Monday, 18 May 2009 18:16 (fifteen years ago) link
Hooray! Rah the tza.
― Ned Raggett, Monday, 18 May 2009 18:17 (fifteen years ago) link
Fantastic!
― Jaq, Monday, 18 May 2009 18:19 (fifteen years ago) link
halfway between our lingbert and trader joe's. i'd say ideal
― friend (jergins), Monday, 18 May 2009 18:22 (fifteen years ago) link
that hill is gonna be so great for my ass.
― ricardos montalban (tehresa), Monday, 18 May 2009 18:24 (fifteen years ago) link
FINALLY!! Congrats, TZA!!!
― But not someone who should be dead anyway (Laurel), Monday, 18 May 2009 18:32 (fifteen years ago) link
Ummm xp! xp!
ha
― friend (jergins), Monday, 18 May 2009 18:32 (fifteen years ago) link
lol
― ricardos montalban (tehresa), Monday, 18 May 2009 18:44 (fifteen years ago) link
ILOLX at its finest
― lxy, Monday, 18 May 2009 18:46 (fifteen years ago) link
gree hee hee
― The-Reverend (rev), Monday, 18 May 2009 18:47 (fifteen years ago) link
guys, i already love seattle apartments! my lease came with like 20 pages of tenants rights info :) ny landlords can suck it.
― ricardos montalban (tehresa), Tuesday, 19 May 2009 03:12 (fifteen years ago) link
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.
― Jaq, Tuesday, 19 May 2009 03:29 (fifteen years ago) link
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.
― ricardos montalban (tehresa), Tuesday, 19 May 2009 03:45 (fifteen years ago) link
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).
― ricardos montalban (tehresa), Tuesday, 19 May 2009 03:47 (fifteen years ago) link
:)
or "jesus christ man, 'sup?!"
― Jaq, Tuesday, 19 May 2009 03:53 (fifteen years ago) link
jc made shit UP
― friend (jergins), Tuesday, 19 May 2009 04:07 (fifteen years ago) link
― ricardos montalban (tehresa), Tuesday, 19 May 2009 04:08 (fifteen years ago) link
ok, see u june 17!
― ricardos montalban (tehresa), Tuesday, 19 May 2009 15:47 (fifteen years ago) link
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.
― "some fucking dumb indie reason you refuse to admit" (Bimble), Tuesday, 19 May 2009 16:17 (fifteen years ago) link
what is the best san juan for a day trip?
― tehresa, Monday, 29 June 2009 20:23 (fourteen years ago) link
orcas is nice, but the people can be grumpy.
― remy bean, Monday, 29 June 2009 20:26 (fourteen years ago) link
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.
― remy bean, Monday, 29 June 2009 20:27 (fourteen years ago) link
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.
― tehresa, Monday, 29 June 2009 21:02 (fourteen years ago) link
Victoria is nice!
― kate78, Monday, 29 June 2009 21:22 (fourteen years ago) link
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?
― tehresa, Tuesday, 30 June 2009 19:30 (fourteen years ago) link
lean like a cholo (in an ugly sweater)
― thousands of bears are distraught (The Reverend), Wednesday, 1 July 2009 03:35 (fourteen years ago) link
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
― thousands of bears are distraught (The Reverend), Wednesday, 1 July 2009 03:36 (fourteen years ago) link
as far as accessibility/first time visit i would rate them:san juan islandorcaslopezshaw
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
― lol@&w/u (jergins), Wednesday, 1 July 2009 04:04 (fourteen years ago) link
on a nice weekday the twists and turns remind me of the drive south of big sur. it's that pretty
― lol@&w/u (jergins), Wednesday, 1 July 2009 04:05 (fourteen years ago) link
haven't been to lopez or shaw. obv I am only a mid-lvl sj tourist
― thousands of bears are distraught (The Reverend), Wednesday, 1 July 2009 04:39 (fourteen years ago) link