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Thread: What's the lowdown on the PNW?
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10-17-2021, 09:11 PM #76
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10-17-2021, 09:26 PM #77
Wow I got a surprising amount of shit from my post, but it’s my experience and I’ve lived all over the country. Maybe your Seattle native taste buds are pretty bad? Have any of you considered that?
But bashing aside it sounds like we need a Seattle food thread because apparently I live under a rock. I still think the casual food scene for a quick bite sucks for a city of this size.
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10-17-2021, 09:32 PM #78
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10-17-2021, 09:58 PM #79
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10-17-2021, 10:09 PM #80
How many Michelin starred restaurants are there in Seattle?
Portland?
LA?
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10-17-2021, 10:30 PM #81Registered User
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10-17-2021, 10:39 PM #82
I actually do agree with this. Even moving to Portland with it's food truck scene was a total revelation.
Seattle is mired in red tape from the health department for some reason and is hamstrung for open real estate/parking lots. SLU there are some but they're gonna start going tits up now that amazonians are wfh'ing
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10-17-2021, 10:53 PM #83Registered User
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10-18-2021, 12:27 AM #84
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10-18-2021, 03:29 AM #85
What's the lowdown on the PNW?
Lived here my whole life and being a creature of convenience tried to move obviously closer to my personal playground of choice. Just have to be willing to do the commute to work. Pretty much day trippin to ski areas to keep your commute times down is the norm because the areas here are not destination resorts by and large. Crowds are what crowds are here and everywhere until the government quits incentivizing people not to work. I lived in Bonney Lake for years and between there and Enumclaw are great spots if you are doing Crystal. Thinking Issaquah to North Bend folks makes it ez for the Pass areas. Stevens Pass skiers could chime in on their definition of reasonable commute because of your Seattle work. Good luck with your decisions and the PNW has great terrain.
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10-18-2021, 08:49 AM #86Registered User
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We have the largest avalanche debris in the world, both by size of debris, as well as breadth of inbounds that is covered by the debris field.
Driving to ski areas is super easy here because it is nearly always raining all the way into the parking lot, transitioning to snow on the lifts. Makes the driving low stress.
You get way more home for your money here than the bay area. you can pretty easily find a 40 year old 3x2 on 8000sf for under $1mil, for example.
The way that the bay area has taquerias, Seattle area has sushi joints. Same rules apply when eating at both- holes in the wall spots are delicious, but its risky to eat at the cheap ones past 8pm. Yamamotos revenge, etc.
S.A.D. is not a joke. It is real, and it hits hard in late April when its been 7 months straight of gray, cold rain, its now barely too warm to snow in the mountains, and you realize you still have 2 more months of gray cold rain till summer makes an appearance. That said, summer in Western Washington (all 2.5 months of it) is the best place in the country- perfect weather (very rarely below 72 or above 90 and sunny every day), unlimited mountain and water activities, and far enough north that days are super long. its the tits. that is, unless the winds blow the wrong way in which case we get all the smoke from WA fires, OR fires and BC fires.
No state income tax is dope.
It is absolutely insane how sudden the culture in WA shifts from uber liberal elite worldclass metropolitan international city... to straight up appalachia. I can drive 15 mins one way and be in seattle's international district, or 20 mins the other and be at tractor supply with a parking lot full of lifted trucks with 3%er stickers and trump flags. Similar to Oregon, but i think the transition here is much more sudden geographically?
the burritos suck here. after 8 years and only 1 good taqueria found (which promptly closed) i have given up and resigned myself to gorging on taquerias when i visit my parents back in the bay area.
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10-18-2021, 08:57 AM #87
Seattle, specifically
https://seattle.eater.com/2021/9/9/2...policy-impacts
Permits from SDOT, Terrible lot rent, health dept up your ass sounds like a pain in the ass to me.
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10-18-2021, 09:41 AM #88Registered User
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10-18-2021, 10:11 AM #89
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So you're saying that i have to drive 1.5-2hrs round trip for a decent burrito around here? That sucks. Like really sucks... especially for what is meant to be cheap and fast cuisine. growing up and living my 20s in an area filthy with great taquerias, it was big change for me when i moved here a while back. Within a 20 minute drive i have nearly every other type of oustanding food at my fingertips, but the mexican (specifially taquerias) in the Seattle area is the one category that is noticeably poor to me.
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10-18-2021, 10:39 AM #93
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10-18-2021, 10:58 AM #94
Skagit, Whatcom...
Originally Posted by californiagrown
No state income tax is dope.
It is absolutely insane how sudden the culture in WA shifts from uber liberal elite worldclass metropolitan international city... to straight up appalachia.
Originally Posted by altasnob
That's because there is no state income tax.
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10-18-2021, 11:01 AM #95Registered User
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10-18-2021, 11:06 AM #96
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10-18-2021, 11:07 AM #97
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10-18-2021, 11:08 AM #98
Not really a burrito place but Taco Chukis has the best El Pastor tacos I have had this side of the Mexican border.
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10-18-2021, 11:09 AM #99
I was born in this town
Live here my whole life
Probably come to die in this town
Live here my whole life
Never anything to do in this town
Live here my whole life
Never anything to do in this town
Live here my whole life
Probably learn to die in this town
Live here my whole life
Nothing to do, sit around at home
Sit around at home, stare at the walls
Stare at each other and wait till we die
Set me on fire
Move upside and let the man go through...
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10-18-2021, 11:14 AM #100Registered User
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