Portland or Seattle Areas

[sniffles]

Living in Seattle proper is going to be outside of my budget, but I think i will have more customers in the Seattle area and will have less overnight travel if I live close to Seattle. Anybody from or care to share about Tacoma?


I think I am still leaning toward Portland area, I have liked what I have seen in Vancouver WA and the outdoorsman in me in much more interested in the features of Portland. After all, I work hard so I can play hard. But, the business man and family man in me may win out with living near Seattle.

Thanks for all of the feed back and keep it coming, it is helpful. Naming any nice burbs of either city helps because I can research the specific locations.

Portland has a lot of nice 'burbs, although most of them are in the wrong direction for you if you want to be just a bit closer to Seattle. Gresham, Beaverton, Tigard, Hillsboro, Lake Oswego, Oregon City, Milwaukie, Wilsonville, Sherwood - to name but a few. I live in Portland proper so I don't have any personal experience of living in any of those places, but I've got friends in Hillsboro, and one who almost lives in Gresham, and they all seem like okay places to me.