move to seattle

I’ve always loved Seattle, everything about it, the rain, trees, coffee, food, and even the crazies on the street. I’ve got only 2 more months of school left, I originally wanted to give myself a year to move to Seattle. But living in Southern California, my chances of landing a job in Seattle are greater than SD. So I plan on making my big move shortly after I graduate… late January – early Feb!!

I’m nervous about it, moving to a new city all by myself but I like to think of it as another challenge for me to learn from. I’m so excited to move to Seattle… the planning and the saving has officially begun. Wish me luck. =)

Seattle is a great place to live so thats why i want to move there .

With the new month comes a big X on the calendar. One less month to get through until I can move to Seattle! I’m still so very much excited about this goal, even with it so far away, and I can’t wait to keep ticking off months. I know this move will be a wonderful one for the old soul.

Yes.

Yes, I think so.

Well, I’ve made the decision. Made it this summer, actually, and now I just have to wait until I finish school to make my dream come true. I’m getting my teaching credential here in California, and am hoping the transition from California credential to a Washington one will be seamless. I’ve lived all over northern California from Oakland to Sacramento and everywhere in between, and it’s time for me to get out of here. I’m thinking Seattle is the perfect city for me because it’s not TOO big (San Francisco was too big for me), but it still is urban enough to suit my youthful fancies, unlike Sacramento which is a city, but a total craphole with no culture. Seattle has great baseball, so although I’ll be moving away from my beloved Oakland A’s, I will still be living in a city of the same division, so I can see my team several times a year, and also fall in love with a new team—if they’re lucky. Seattle also seems perfect for me because I love cloudy, rainy weather, I love the ocean, I love trees, I love mountains, and I love Twin Peaks. How could I go wrong in Seattle?!?

I’m not even entirely sure what this website is all about, but I’m super excited for it to track my goal of moving to an entirely new world.

I’ve been to seattle twice to see how the city is. I’ve always loved rain, and cities. I love cold weather so living right now in texas doesn’t suit me one bit. I’ve been wanting to move to seattle for a year now but due to some money problems i hadn’t been able to.

What I’m planning to do is: Sell all my furniture to get out of my credit card debt, and start saving to go maybe next summer or winter there. I would like to have a job before moving there but that is one hard thing to do for sure.

This will be…interesting. It look as if we coud actually be going back for Christmas this year.

I think I’m going to need to wear rather more layers than in either April or September. Right? ;)

Still…point is, that if you go live somewhere, you have to live with it all year round.

Someone else, as it happens, has expressed this far better than I could.

The poet Denise Levertov lived in Seattle for the latter part of her life. (She died there and was buried on top of the hill at Lake View. I saw her tombstone there and had to go away and look up who she was.) She was, however, born in Ilford, Essex, which is geographically as near London as makes no difference. I was born in Kent, which is culturally as near London as makes no difference, and the weather’s pretty similar. Consequently, I can see what she’s getting at in this poem.

Those last three lines particularly hit home.

Settling
I was welcomed here — clear gold
of late summer, of opening autumn,
the dawn eagle sunning himself on the highest tree,
the mountain revealing herself unclouded, her snow
tinted apricot as she looked west,
Tolerant, in her steadfastness, of the restless sun
forever rising and setting.
Now I am given
a taste of the grey foretold by all and sundry,
a grey both heavy and chill. I’ve boasted I would not care,
I’m London-born. And I won’t. I’ll dig in,
into my days, having come here to live, not to visit.
Grey is the price
of neighboring with eagles, of knowing
a mountain’s vast presence, seen or unseen.

i feel like i’ve given up on this, it’s been a year… i’ll revisit this thought later, perhaps.

I hate Atlanta, the people in GA are the most ignorant people In the entire country. The air quality is abysmal. People here are fat and don’t walk anywhere. People here can’t hold a conversation intelligently. People here are way too image oriented. Ghetto, right-wing republican, ignorant, trashy, uneducated, close minded…..

It all started when my best friend married into the military. She and her husband are going to be stationed in the Seattle area and started trying to talk me into moving with them last January. I’ve always wanted to go somewhere new and experience a different living experience. i’ve spent my whole life in the chicagoland area and now its finally time for me to get my taste of adventure. I decided in April that i was going to move with them FOR sure! I already bought my one way ticket, i got my luggage, and i’ve been going through all my stuff trying to decide what’s going and what’s not. I already made some contacts and friends via the internet up in the area and i’ve been keeping an eye open for jobs in the area on craigslist. My family is completely unsupportive of my adventure, but i’m totally gung-ho for it! I feel as though i’m finally starting to live! I have no idea whats waiting for me there, i’ve never been there, but i only hear great things and what’s the worst that can happen? I don’t like it and i come back home… doesn’t sound too bad does it?