Advice needed from Seattle members

How long of a commute did you want? Did you want to live downtown or further away? I live in Lynnwood, about 20 miles north of Seattle, rent is less expensive there and around Bothell, if you dont want to live in the city.

Same with the areas south, Renton, Kent, Auburn, are less expensive but the commute at the end of the day is bad, 1:30 or so to go, 20-30 miles, not as bad going North.

West Seattle is a nice area, except White Center, as long as you dont live on Alki, pretty expensive, plus on a nice summer day it will take forever to get home, as its a cruising area, and there are really only two ways to get there.

The Queen Anne area of seattle is the "hipster" area, Beacon Hill is ok, Capitol Hill is ok, its the hmmm "free thinking"area. Fremont and Ballard are getting expensive i think. The bad area used to be the Central District, around 23rd and Jackson, i had not been there for a while, but helped someone move a while ago and its cleaned up.

Let me know if you have other questions