Seattle is listed by Outside Magazine as the 2nd best place to live.
“The recession arrived late in Seattle, thanks to future-trending corporations like Amazon, Micro soft, and Boeing, and unemployment leveled off in March, helping the city avoid a major collapse in housing prices. Leaving nature-hungry urbanites free to conduct business as usual:”
Not to mention our long standing awesome 80% library card carrying record to boot! We rock Seattle!
Any place better to live than Seattle? Just one, mag says: “”

Gotta like an article like that. Seattle’s real estate market has always tempered the booms and busts of the rest of the West Coast.