r/SeattleWA • u/Ok-Ad-9903 • 14h ago

Question Moving across country

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u/TSAOutreachTeam 14h ago
  1. Make sure you have a job before you come.
  2. Make sure you have enough money for housing. This may mean a month's deposit in addition to your first month's rent.
  3. Make sure you have enough money for food. Food will be surprisingly expensive coming from Texas.
  4. Make sure you have enough money to buy clothes for the cold weather. It's not bitter cold here, but it is cold and wet all the time.
  5. Make sure you have enough money to buy lifestyle support products. Maybe you can get by with Vitamin D tablets. Maybe you'll need a sun lamp.
  6. Make sure you have a lifeline of friends in Texas you can talk to when you're feeling lonely. You will feel lonely.
  7. Make sure your lease has provisions to get out early if you find that you need to. Sometimes what looks great on Apartments.com doesn't pan out in real life.
  8. Make sure you have enough money to return to Houston if Seattle isn't for you. Always keep a little bit socked away so you can escape.
  9. Make sure you have a job before you come.

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u/government_not_ok 14h ago

For the love of god have a job lined up or substantial savings before doing this. And don’t enter rental agreements before seeing the place in person, you will get scammed!!!

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u/ImRight_YoureDumb 14h ago

Any advice on living in the cold?

Wear a jacket.

Any good places to eat in Seattle?

Dick's

Public transportation?

Light rail. Bus.

How’s the morning traffic?

Bad.

How’s the night life?

Terrible.

How are the locals?

The natives are fine. The transplants are duds.

You are very ill-prepared for this move. You will be turning tricks within a month. Don't come.

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u/BicameralTheory West Seattle 13h ago

I moved from San Antonio to Seattle recently.

I can probably provide more details later (working atm) but broadly: * The weather isn’t as bad as people make it sound. The winter can be kind of oppressive compared to Texas with the overcast and low cloud cover, but I’ll take that over the summer heat.

  • It’s significantly more expensive than you’d think. Have a good job lined up.

  • Vet your place of living really closely. Look at maps, do google searches, Reddit posts on the area/apartment name, do street views, etc. I ruled out two places even just because their location to homeless services were problematic and apparently attracted crime, which turned out to be a dodged bullet.

Best of luck

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u/JackDostoevsky 12h ago

Seattle is not a great place to come looking for a job, the economy is a bit precarious these days, lots of layoffs and one of the highest costs of living in the country. If you have a job and can afford it, it's a wonderful city, but it definitely has its issues.

Also it doesn't get that cold, in the winter it stays in the 40s usually, with maybe a few weeks where it might dip into the 30s and maybe once in a while you get a day or two in the 20s.

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u/Eyeball-Chambers 10h ago edited 10h ago

If you are moving yourself using U-haul or similar, do not leave the truck unattended anywhere during your travels, they are notoriously getting broken into at motels, in front of your new housing and in most cases the entire truck gets stolen containing everything you own.
Evidently those trucks are easy to break into, hot-wire and steal. This has been posted here more times than we'd like to hear so be very careful!

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u/edirgl Capitol Hill 9h ago

I want to repeat it:
Come here if you have a job already.