Whidbey commutes and PNW Traffic Circle Esoterica

[nittany03]

There's plenty of land in Enumclaw.

Especially if you like cows.

 

[xj220]

I want to move to Bellevue or Kirkland when I get the chance. I know it’s expensive but it’s way nicer there.

 

[bert]

As I househunt for my civilian job smack in the middle of downtown . . . what is this “land” you speak of that can be acquired for a mere half a million?

I spend about half my time in Seattle (our offices are right across from King St station). The Sounder is a great deal and makes commuting easy, so you can look further out than you think.

 

[MattWSU]

Especially if you like cows.

They're more partial to horses...

 

[nittany03]

EPIC FAIL. Got stuck in the middle of this shitshow trying to bus it home from work. At least this one wasn’t due to wayward seafood . . .

http://komonews.com/news/local/one-crash-sends-seattle-into-gridlock-again

 

[Brett327]

You should have just taken the monorail.

 

[exNavyOffRec]

I want to move to Bellevue or Kirkland when I get the chance. I know it’s expensive but it’s way nicer there.

It is, but it used to be much nicer, god help you if you want to trim a tree in your yard.

 

[nittany03]

It is, but it used to be much nicer, god help you if you want to trim a tree in your yard.

Looking at what shit is closing for up there, good luck. You'd probably need to find yourself a sugar momma who either has a CS degree and 10 years at Microsoft, or who went all-in on Amazon at $250. "Cute" houses in Kirkland are at least $600-700K minimum, and Bellevue has fucking gone to plaid.

If you want a nice bike ride, pedal up East Lake Sammamish Parkway from Issaquah to Redmond, and see how the tech elite lives. I swear someone has a helo on a pad in their waterfront lot on Lake Sammamish . . . never been able to slow down enough to catch the N-number. Too bad I'm just a schmuck of a junior project manager.

 

[CommodoreMid]

Just to spew more Whidbey hate, I love how when they run into a gate manning problem their first instinct is to shut down Hammer. So you have Langley, Charles porter, and the hospital all open for the people in oak harbor, but fuck everyone who lives in Anacortes or Burlington.

 

[RadicalDude]

Just to spew more Whidbey hate, I love how when they run into a gate manning problem their first instinct is to shut down Hammer. So you have Langley, Charles porter, and the hospital all open for the people in oak harbor, but fuck everyone who lives in Anacortes or Burlington.

Or when they install an automatic gate and realize mid-construction it’s not certified so now you have a very fancy manually operated gate that serves a third of the base and is only open 5 hrs a day, not on weekends, and never within three weeks of Christmas. Fucking beautiful.

 

[Jim123]

Just to spew more Whidbey hate, I love how when they run into a gate manning problem their first instinct is to shut down Hammer. So you have Langley, Charles porter, and the hospital all open for the people in oak harbor, but fuck everyone who lives in Anacortes or Burlington every base can never seem to figure out how to manage their gates, or when they do then it only lasts a short time before going back to SOP AFU.

FIFY

 

[nittany03]

Or when they install an automatic gate and realize mid-construction it’s not certified so now you have a very fancy manually operated gate that serves a third of the base and is only open 5 hrs a day, not on weekends, and never within three weeks of Christmas. Fucking beautiful.

What the hell are they doing up there? I came back from a MOB last year, and all of the sudden it's "stop here," "don't block there," automated this, barriers that . . . next thing you know there's going to be a freaking M1A1 tank painted up in guacuaflage with its gun barrel pointed at the place you stop and show your ID card. OK, great, force protection, I get it, but come on. At some point, you have to realize this is CONUS and not freaking Iraq.