Moving to Kirkland/Seattle, WA - advice needed, please?
Feb 20th 2009, 1:25 am
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Re: Moving to Kirkland/Seattle, WA - advice needed, please?
Kirkland is separated from Seattle proper by a large bridge. This is obviously a bottleneck and can be a bit of a nightmare in rush hour.
It's up to your husband really. If he is the kind of Brit that wants a really good local boozer around the corner, then he'll want to consider sucking it up for the commute (I can recommend several British-style neighbourhood pubs around the city if that is the case). If he is more of the quiet homely type, then he might as well live in Kirkland and avoid being stuck in traffic every morning.
Feb 20th 2009, 1:50 am
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Re: Moving to Kirkland/Seattle, WA - advice needed, please?
That's the basic choice. Commute versus social life. That's what it comes down to.
Kirkland is separated from Seattle proper by a large bridge. This is obviously a bottleneck and can be a bit of a nightmare in rush hour.
It's up to your husband really. If he is the kind of Brit that wants a really good local boozer around the corner, then he'll want to consider sucking it up for the commute (I can recommend several British-style neighbourhood pubs around the city if that is the case). If he is more of the quiet homely type, then he might as well live in Kirkland and avoid being stuck in traffic every morning.
Kirkland is separated from Seattle proper by a large bridge. This is obviously a bottleneck and can be a bit of a nightmare in rush hour.
It's up to your husband really. If he is the kind of Brit that wants a really good local boozer around the corner, then he'll want to consider sucking it up for the commute (I can recommend several British-style neighbourhood pubs around the city if that is the case). If he is more of the quiet homely type, then he might as well live in Kirkland and avoid being stuck in traffic every morning.
Feb 20th 2009, 2:03 am
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Re: Moving to Kirkland/Seattle, WA - advice needed, please?
Wow. That's crazy. How long does that take?
Feb 20th 2009, 2:25 am
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Re: Moving to Kirkland/Seattle, WA - advice needed, please?
It wasn't too crazy initially because he was working in a different department and worked 3.5 days with 3.5 off (office was in Redmond) But then he took a promotion and moved to Bothel.....the only good thing is that occasionally he works from home. But he leaves pretty early and comes home early and still ends up with 1.5 hours (2 hours on bad days.)
Feb 21st 2009, 4:16 am
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Re: Moving to Kirkland/Seattle, WA - advice needed, please?
wow... Puyallup to Bothell... must be a good job!
Apr 19th 2009, 10:09 pm
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Re: Moving to Kirkland/Seattle, WA - advice needed, please?
I found most of the posts in the forum quoted for 20ft container from UK to mainly Houston. Can anyone help me in giving me the approximate quotes for shipping a 20ft container from UK to Seattle?
Apr 21st 2009, 6:37 pm
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Re: Moving to Kirkland/Seattle, WA - advice needed, please?
Apr 22nd 2009, 12:14 am
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Re: Moving to Kirkland/Seattle, WA - advice needed, please?
Fair enough. Never been there.
I'm down with Seattle now, unfortunately. Miss it really badly!
I'm down with Seattle now, unfortunately. Miss it really badly!
