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Worst Places to Live in Washington Damnit!!!

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  • EverettChris
    EverettChris Member Posts: 7,946 Standard Supporter

    Drove by Connell dozens of times from Portland to Missoula. There’s a prison and a McDonald’s.

    Kudos to WADOT for taking down the “do not pick up hitchhikers, they may be escaped prisoners” sign sometime in the last 10 years.

    How did Connell make the list seeing as it’s IMO located on the most boring drive in the northwest (WA 395 from Pasco to Ritzville), has a maximum security prison, and smells like onions and despair?

  • YellowSnow
    YellowSnow Moderator, Swaye's Wigwam Posts: 37,232 Founders Club

    There’s no tolerable weather west of the Cascades. None I tell ya. @creepycoug isn’t going all in on Chelan for no reason. He’ll burn down like Yella and die of lung cancer like Yella, but still.

  • BleachedAnusDawg
    BleachedAnusDawg Member Posts: 13,184 Standard Supporter

    It's better to burn out, than fade away.

  • creepycoug
    creepycoug Member Posts: 24,035

    want do you think of good value sound waterfront / water view in that area?

  • BleachedAnusDawg
    BleachedAnusDawg Member Posts: 13,184 Standard Supporter

    All my real estate guysms say Port Orchard and Bremerton are the next areas to pop. Both areas mostly suck right now, but you'd be getting in cheap, relatively speaking. Olalla is cool because of the short drive to Gig Harbor and Tacoma.

    Some people like Manchester. Great views of Seattle from across the sound, but it's tucked at least 15 minutes away from everything with only a couple of restaurants in the heart of the area.

    Don't sleep on Poulsbo, either. Also, it's the closest town to Silverdale which has the most "suburban" shopping in the county.

    There are a million little inlets to the west headed out towards Mason County and Hood Canal. If you want land that's the direction to go, but you'll be pretty far from any kind of entertainment outside of small town cafes and restaurants near water. I don't head out that way often. Belfair has a few spots and there's a lot of outdoors stuff to do that way.

  • Fishpo31
    Fishpo31 Member Posts: 2,626

    We've been here seven years, and still find little little pockets of cool neighborhoods previously unknown. We are in between Silverdale and Bremerton, so we can branch out for restaurant options, from Port Townsend to Gig Harbor, Hamma Hamma to "The Island", 15 minutes to the ferry.

    20 years ago, I couldn't have imagined leaving Seattle for Kitsap. With the well-documented deterioration, combined with my accumulation of birthdays, I can't imagine going back.

  • huskyhooligan
    huskyhooligan Member, Swaye's Wigwam Posts: 5,924 Swaye's Wigwam

    I think it was about 20 years ago, or close to, Bremerton had a bunch of condos built near the ferry, did some other stuff. It is a cool little downtown, but Silverdale gets most of the business in the area. That said there are solid Navy jobs on Kitsap, plus you're a tad closer to the Olympics which are much less used than the Cascades.

    I haven't been on Bainbridge in years but I hear the casino just across the Agate Pass has made getting on and off the island miserable. Both Vashon and Bainbridge should probably have more people and the people of Vashon would protest in their 1980's model Volvos if a bridge was ever constructed from Gig Harbor / Purdy / Port Orchard. That and with WSDOT speed, it would take 15 years to build. For true growth to hit Port Orchard / Southworth and Vashon, a direct ferry into downtown Seattle would influence that a lot. Plus there are certain times of day the drive around is a lot faster. One mid afternoon I made it from Purdy to Northgate in an hour.

    Oh and the list should include South South Hill, or really Graham. Meridian is the worst.

  • CFetters_Nacho_Lover
    CFetters_Nacho_Lover Moderator, Swaye's Wigwam Posts: 32,258 Founders Club

    A lot of real state talk here and no one has checked with Kim?