Retire in Seattle Washington?

[bruceb58]

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The last time I checked pretty much every Golf Course in the PNW was open for business at or near 12 months a year.

I stand by my statement. Golf courses where I live are open 12 months a year and there are days that you can't or won't golf.

Curious, do you golf and do you golf when its been raining for 30 days straight and when its 45? out?

I have been to Seattle a lot. Spent the first 22 summers of my life up there. Don't get me wrong, summers up there are awesome even if they are on the short side!

 

[java230]

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this was last week.

Eastern WA, Chelan to be exact. Awesome lake

Lake Wa, public docks to tie up to and walk around town. 5 mins from my house.

 

[java230]

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Public wildlife area 1.5 hrs from Seattle.

 

[java230]

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Great riding out on the penninsula

Winter in eastern WA

Multiple ski areas within an hour of Seattle.

Yeah I Love WA.

 

[dockrash]

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Random shots from south Puget Sound

post more later still figuring out this format for pics

 

[Bigprairie1]

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....nice pics guys...very nice. Puget sounds offers some pretty great boating, lots of nice sheltered water. I recognize a lot of that terrain from (Eastern) Washington state near Idaho as well as you get into over the coastal rainforest and into that 'Ponderosa Pine' type country, which I really like personally. I say that based on the fact that the same terrain, mountain ranges, etc continue up into the Okanagan (Canadian side) and that eastern area is sort of the extended northern part of the Nevada desert to my recollection.
The ski thing...yeah, Mt. Baker, pretty popular destination even for Canadians.
Again, great pics....definitely lends itself to an outdoor lifestyle in my opinion.
BP

 

[Boomyal]

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Does anyone have any more info on Bremerton? What and Where can i run a boat inland? We would like a house on the water as long as the wife can work and i can enjoy the scenery, we are good. Thoughts? ideas?

I'm in Vancouver WA. That is SW Washington, just north of Portland Oregon. I am a 25+ year Southern California transplant. I moved up here to get out of LA when the kids were young. I was still hard in the saddle with work so the weather was not that big a deal. Now that I am semi-retired, the weather is getting to me. Maybe like FLA, there might have been good reasons why these places languished for years until more popular places began to become uninhabitable.

The Seattle area is wetter and grayer than SW Washington. Just be sure you buy a house that has lot's of garage/shop space and be ready to grow webs between your toes. Do not buy a house in the trees. It will look real enticing to you coming from a hot climate.

IMHO it would be quite a shock moving from FLA to WA.

 

[Watermann]

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Lot's of negativity from people who don't live here. Not that it's perfect here but I'm partial to it. I was born in Eastern WA in the town Chelan, the pics in the above post are of the lake. 55 miles long, she's in places 1500 feet deep and a mile wide. Diving in the lake has 30+ feet viability. Land locked Chinook Salmon, big Lake Trout, kokanee, small mouth Bass and Burbot. I moved north but it's a short drive back. Eastern WA is called by those in the Puget Sound "the back yard." The Cascade mountains shield us from the pacific oceans weather influence so we have about 300 days a year with sunshine. It's a short drive by one of 3 mountain passes when the sometimes gloomy weather gets you down in the coastal towns.

I go to the Seattle area often for all the big city attractions and if you don't want to drive, it's a nice train ride on the Amtrak Empire Builder. You will find yourself falling in love too with the old west town of Winthrop and the Bavarian village of Leavenworth. Washington State is a package deal, west and east of the Cascade Mountains. The Washington coat town of Westport, has some of the greatest salmon fishing south of Alaska.

I think with the right attitude you'll fall in love here with the mountains, big salt water, 100's of rivers and the 1000's of lakes.

 

[foodfisher]

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Did apple blossom festival (gleefully), but that's a whole nuther story from the OP's question about Seattle.

 

[Harritwo]

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The admiral is job and house shopping as we speak, I fully intend to scale back work if not flat out retire, No decisions have been made, main;ly looking to see what is available in our comfort zone. With the info you posted, it is very appealing. I grew up where it was 70 miles each way to shop for groceries, go to the movies, or anything else. The Admiral was not born with a silver spoon in her mouth but she has wasted no time in getting it there now. If she is more than 5 miles from Target, we live in the middle of no where, Her idea of camping is the Marriott, her idea of roughing it is we have to stay in a Hilton. She has fallen in love with the scenery and the idea of the Puget Sound, mountains, and wildlife out the doors, So I aim to make her happy.

Thank you Watermann for the comments.

 

[Harritwo]

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Boomyal,

While I am sure it will be a culture shock, It cannot compare when I left home at the age of 23 (Texas) and arrived in Norfolk, Va, knowing no one and no family around. It was the first time in my life I had been in a major city to live, The largest city where i grew up was a 100,000 people. Two lane highways and back country roads were all i knew, imagine me driving on a 6 lane interstate. I was in awe.