Reply #19: We're natives [View All]

[Missy Vixen]

>Is it because you like the area or you have a good job there?<

DH and I were both born in Seattle and have lived here our entire lives. We'll be living in the house we're in, though, until we decide to leave. He works in the software industry. Every place else we could possibly live (and keep his job,) we'd be in the same boat -- his company has branches in San Francisco and London, for instance.

We live in a suburb of Seattle. We purchased our current home six years ago for $250,000. It's a nice house. We like it very much. At the same time, housing prices here have exploded to the extent that the next-door-neighbors sold their home (bigger than ours with more upgrades,) to the first people that looked at it the day they put it on the market and less than six months ago for $439,000.

>Ever consider moving to a lower cost of living city?<

I'm not sure where that would be on the West Coast, and we'd kind of like to stay here.
Julie