posted on January 4, 2005 09:43:32 AM new
You posted this questions in 'feeling Guilty' (about the tsunami) and it dropped
down, and just saw it now
Near, a friend of ours daughter & son in law just bought a house just there in Seattle half way between between Puget Sound and Lake Washington, I believe its on E 15th?
I believe that is the Capitol Hill area. If they bought a house there, woaw, they are really pricey! Nice places there, very close to downtown Seattle
Capitol Hill is called that because that is where the capitol of our state WAS going to be, so they built a lot of mansions and huge homes long ago up there, until they decided on Olympia.
posted on January 4, 2005 01:39:43 PM new
They aren't hurting for $$$$$$$$$$. She is a clinical pharmacologist at one of the hospitals there (close to Microsoft) & he works for Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center doing application development. I heard they paid around $300K for their house.
posted on January 4, 2005 02:27:51 PM new
yeah, sounds like they are doing very well, if he's working for Fred Hutch
300K isn't bad, and will buy a very nice house here, and if it is Capitol Hill, or Queen Ann, super areas, close to downtown, views, great for young people! We paid a little more than that for this house, BUT people around the country need to realize the economy of this city alone, and I mean Seattle (and the east side; Bellevue, Mercer Island, Sammamish, Redmond etc, and of course where Bill Gates lives! ) because you go over the mountains to Eastern WA (or Southwest WA) and the economy is so different, our home would cost about $100k IF THAT.
I read a little of his blog, he had me laughing at some stuff! Nice blog!
posted on January 4, 2005 02:48:25 PM new
You could buy a freakin' PALACE for 300K here in Dayton, OH. You can get a decent home in the suburbs for the low 100K's.
You can even buy slum houses for under 10K if you have no sense at all.
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posted on January 4, 2005 02:58:06 PM new
replay, thats the cost of housing in King County (the largest county, also the county that Seattle is in) The average house (decent) say 3 bd 2 bath, no huge property will cost about $225-$250k or more. It REALLY is expensive to live here, so most everyone that does live in King, need to have higher paying jobs, and that is where a lot of them are, well in Redmond (Microsoft) and Boeing (in Seattle and Renton) We could move to Ohio, and with my own money, and his job, what he's done for 25 years, we would be most likely like everyone else, a house about $150K or so, etc, its all relative I guess. Check out Alaska and what it cost for a gal of milk!
Now I am only talking a certain region, The Puget Sound area... there are great places out of King co, that are beautiful and affordable.
posted on January 4, 2005 06:42:18 PM new
Near, they have already started remodeling it. After moving in, Kim decided the kitchen was too small & she decided she didn't like the flooring in one room and next the fence in the back yard needs to be rebuilt. It's only money to them & they need the tax write off.
Wish I had that problem.
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posted on January 5, 2005 03:28:32 AM new
I know how it is up there in the Pacific NW. I was born and raised in Seattle, grew up on Queen Anne, went to UW, etc. My folks bought their house for 64k in the early 80s, sold it in 1997 for about 240k. That was 7 years ago...I'm afraid to ask what the house would sell for now...probably 350k. And this was a small house, but being on Queen Anne, it was primo real estate. Ever since the onslaught of Californians and young millionaires out of Microsoft, real estate has gone through the roof. It's crazy, because the majority of people just don't have that kind of money. I always wanted to move back, but it's because of the real estate costs (and traffic!) that I won't. I live in southern Colorado now, the cost of living is reasonable, and the weather is a heck of a lot better.
Of course, we're land-locked
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