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.

  • SpaceNoodle@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    1 year ago

    You’re gonna be paying a lot for groceries as well as housing. Unless you’re moving from inner SF, get ready for sticker shock.

    As others have said, you’ll want to consider your commute, unless you’re moving just to work remote. You’ll probably also want to consider is you want to be able to get downtown or to other parts of the city with relative ease, like if you’re young and want to do hip young person things.

    If all you want to do is shop at Fred Meyer, stare at identical houses, and have to drive an hour to get to anything, you can move to Bonney Lake.