Hello all. I have landed a job in Seattle. I wanted to know your input in finding a place to rent in Seattle. I learned from Reddit that I should avoid Tacoma. However, I’m looking for more tips on how to find a place and how far from Seattle is too far. As a follow-up question, how to find a place not very expensive that is safe and is near a market where groceries are not expensive. What I mean by the latter is that some big name stores are more experience.
Edit to add: Commute. Best commute would be a bus or walk or skates? at or less than 45mins. Still best commute would be bicycle ride at 30-50mins (10ish mph). OK but could be better commute would be 1 to 1.25hrs commute doing the same. OK commute would be 1 or 1.25 hr drive commute. Anything over that 1.5 drive would be bad commute. Good commute would be 30mins drive. Anything near and over 2hr would have to be very cheap on rent, groceries,
Work. East Seattle. Not far from I90
Desired location. East of Seattle. Maybe one hour drive give or take.
Edit2 to clarify location: I think I have enough information from the comments. Thank you so much everyone. As for location not making sense said one user, it’s actually Bellevue. I said Seattle since it’s easy to remember. Some comments already recommended locations that would work for commuting to Belleville. Thanks again everyone for the information given.
What do you consider “expensive”? And like others asked, where are you going to be commuting to, and what do you consider “too far”?
I don’t know if I’d agree with the people on Reddit who told you to avoid Tacoma. It’s certainly cheaper than living in Seattle itself, if you can deal with the commute time. Also keep in mind that Seattle is one of the safest large metro areas in the country, so pretty much everywhere is “safe” compared to other large cities.