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I have lived in Seattle (Northgate, Greenwood/Bitterlake, now Ballard) for most of the past 13 years. Most of the things that people complain about wrt Seattle either don’t bother me or the good things about living here outweigh them.
With that said…Downtown Portland is disgusting, the piss smell, garbage, etc is worse than anywhere in Seattle and the scenery/views don’t hold a candle to Puget Sound. I would live in Tacoma before I lived in Portland.
The Eastside (Bellevue/Redmond) is a totally different world, it’s clean, modern, and quiet but it’s tech central and more expensive than most of Seattle proper, also the 405 traffic is horrible.
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