Yes, I do understand it could be so much worse. My friends in the Bay Area are no doubt chuckling merrily over my picayune dilemma, ditto those in or near Manhattan." Or even Los Angeles. People commute for insane distances in all those places. Literal hundreds of miles in some cases.
But the fact remains that this is not London, or Manhattan, nor LA, nor San Francisco, and it still seems wrong to have to move into the next county to buy a house you actually want. And metro Puget Sound is still wrestling with its public transit growing pangs in ways that make "long" commutes less viable here than they might be in other places.
More than anything, though, it's that the local folks tend to think that a 30 minute drive is Very Far, and so if we were to move to Everett it would be even dodgier to expect to see our friends much.
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Yes, I do understand it could be so much worse. My friends in the Bay Area are no doubt chuckling merrily over my picayune dilemma, ditto those in or near Manhattan." Or even Los Angeles. People commute for insane distances in all those places. Literal hundreds of miles in some cases.
But the fact remains that this is not London, or Manhattan, nor LA, nor San Francisco, and it still seems wrong to have to move into the next county to buy a house you actually want. And metro Puget Sound is still wrestling with its public transit growing pangs in ways that make "long" commutes less viable here than they might be in other places.
More than anything, though, it's that the local folks tend to think that a 30 minute drive is Very Far, and so if we were to move to Everett it would be even dodgier to expect to see our friends much.