Thread: Moving to Seattle Area Next Month

Originally Posted by ezgoing

I'm a moderate in outlook by nature, believe in the MYOB philosophy of life. I don't believe in the "my way or the highway" way of thinking that is current here in Texas. So Texas is becoming more of a culture shock as each year goes by and one group demands the rest of Texas and the world lives by that group's world view.

So as long as the natives of Seattle don't try to force their beliefs on me I don't care what they believe or how they live their life.

Hope you're right. Have a nephew that moved to Seattle for a job and found the current conditions were not to his liking. He is in in his mid 20's, and in Cyber Security for PayPal. When they offered to relocate him to Phoenix he jumped at it. His fiancée, now his wife, was from there. It made the relocating much easier on both, as she is a nurse and was fed up with the area also.
Hope your experiences are different. Keep us posted on your new adventures.

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Originally Posted by slowhand

Hope you're right. Have a nephew that moved to Seattle for a job and found the current conditions were not to his liking. He is in in his mid 20's, and in Cyber Security for PayPal. When they offered to relocate him to Phoenix he jumped at it. His fiancée, now his wife, was from there. It made the relocating much easier on both, as she is a nurse and was fed up with the area also.
Hope your experiences are different. Keep us posted on your new adventures.

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As I stated, I am a follower of the MYOB philosophy of life. Mind Your Own Business. They can believe in whatever they want, live however they want to live, as long as they don't try to force me to believe in what they believe in and live my life the way they want to live their lives.

Sadly that is happening more each year here, where one group thinks they have the right to force other Texans to follow their beliefs and way of living. I have two neighbors who no longer speak to me because I occasionally go fishing on Sunday mornings. One of them tried to lecture me about it and got quite upset when I told him MYOB. He asked what MYOB meant and got upset when I told him it means mind your own business. He will be happy to see the For Sale sign go on my house. I feel sad for him.

But this is beyond what I intended in this thread. I just want to learn about fishing conditions in the Seattle-Tacoma area and hopefully find a few new fishing buddies in the area. I know the country side is beautiful, with mountains, fresh-water lakes and the Puget Sound to fish in. Since I am a firm follower of MYOB, I will just ignore those whose ways I don't personally care for, just the way I currently do. I figure it is their loss, not mine, and will continue to live a very happy life without them. I just ask they don't try to force their beliefs on me by passing restrictive laws that enforce their beliefs on other people, which shouldn't be too much to ask.

I plan on keeping everybody posted on my new fishing adventures that relate to crappie fishing, learning new lakes, and if I'm lucky, new ways to fish for crappies. But it doesn't seem appropriate to talk about learning to fish for rainbow trout in a crappie forum so you will not see many, if any, of my actual fishing adventures with them. Nor will I bore people with the cultural aspects of life there.

I’ll only comment on one thing that you spoke of. That’s fishing on Sunday morning. Sorry that you lost a friend over it. If I say more I’ll get scolded. But I believe we share like minds on the subject.

I too was at Ft. Lewis in the late 1980's. I absolutely loved the area and it's "liquid sunshine". I went back there for work about 10 years ago and it's not like it used to be. Waaay too overcrowded and expensive. The only way I would want to live there now would be somewhere halfway between Mount St. Helens and Mount Rainier in the middle of the woods away from everyone.

Some nice views from webcams for you. Good luck on your move and fishing adventures. I too fish on Sundays

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I was stationed on the other side of the cascades - Fairchild AFB at Spokane. A HUGE difference in climate from Seattle. Beautiful seasons, although winter could get chilly. My best over two winters was 25 below!
Bob

Good luck sir! Enjoy it!


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Ezgoing, yes you can post trout outings here. If not in main forum, then here. https://www.crappie.com/crappie/salmon-trout-fishing/

See, it doesn't matter what fishing you do. Slab has it all covered on this site.

Originally Posted by Opie1

I too was at Ft. Lewis in the late 1980's. I absolutely loved the area and it's "liquid sunshine". I went back there for work about 10 years ago and it's not like it used to be. Waaay too overcrowded and expensive. The only way I would want to live there now would be somewhere halfway between Mount St. Helens and Mount Rainier in the middle of the woods away from everyone.

Some nice views from webcams for you. Good luck on your move and fishing adventures. I too fish on Sundays

Mt. Rainier Regional Webcams | Visit Rainier

Now that I am retired, I fish seven days a week, whenever the mood hits me.

Sometimes it is in the morning, sometimes in the afternoon and sometimes at night. Since my now prime fishing buddy likes to fish in the afternoon that is what I have been doing the last four months. My other two prime fishing buddies deserted me to fish better producing lakes since i moved to Lake Worth.

I haven't done any night fishing for the last six months but given our weather is forecast at 100+ degrees night time is looking better and better again. I'm even thinking about early morning fishing, as much as I hate to get up before 7 in the morning.

Being too crowded and too expensive can be said about anywhere there are jobs. I know DFW has become way overcrowded the last 15 years. And given my home increased in value over $100,000.00 during the last four years Arlington at least has become way too expensive. But I will grant you that homes in the better areas around Seattle are even more expensive than here.

My daughter is taking care of the house hunting so that is her headache. She trying to find one in a decent school district, without too much commute time for her husband to work and not too far away from the lakes where I plan on fishing. But I told her that since I was willing to drive up to one hour to get to the marina, he should be willing to drive up to one hour to get to work. Somehow they don't see the two as being equal in importance. But I think she has settle on Bremerton, Port Orchard and Lacey as her target areas. All three are close enough to marinas to suit me. One nice thing about the area, they have a lot of different marinas, both freshwater and saltwater.

But I think I will be keeping my boat in a Lake Washington marina, and all three cities are close enough to be ok with me.

Any day I'm on the water in my boat I'm happy. Catching is just a bonus.