Job opportunities are suck. Life is inconvenient. Stores and restaurants are far away. If you are not msft employees, I don’t see any reason to live there, especially those cottages area. If you work in Seattle or Bellevue, It would be nightmare to commute after RTO tc 180
Because they work at MSFT, ATT, or some other company there
Its safe compared to Seattle
Amazon moved to Bellevue, Google/Meta in Kirkland people buy the nearest they can afford Redmond have good schools and near Bellevue and Kirkland so commute will be better.
What are you talking about? Microsoft is in Redmond and Amazon has more and more offices in Bellevue and Redmond. You have data that non-Microsoft/non-Amazon employees are buying those homes?
WA is a shithole
Maybe I’m biased because I grew up in WA but I never really got all the hate. Sure, it’s not as ‘exciting’ and fast paced as NY / SF but it’s actually pretty nice. Much easier to save up here compared to NY / SF and some of the other cities like Bothell, Bellevue, Redmond, New Castle, and Fremont are all nice places to live.
You should come out of your bubble