I'm reading the 5-year-old Seattle comments on this thread and amusedly shaking my head. I actually ended up in the vicinity of Renton/Kent (not blech after all if you're in the right places). The firearm laws are beginning to get positively stupid (c'mon SCOTUS). Ballard and Green Lake have filled up with addicted homeless bums, though things are finally reaching a breaking point and the new mayor and city attorney may yet (finally) get a handle on things. God help anyone buying real estate on the Eastside, because it's officially more expensive there than San Francisco now.