Seattle friends—I’m planning on moving for Amazon. Please share what suburbs or country settings are close enough for a commute and affordable.

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South of the city is probably your best bet to find something under 400k, and I suspect it will still be a challenge there. Kent, Auburn, Renton area. commute in to Amazon in South Lake Union will likely be 45 on good days.

I'd recommend finding a realtor that specializes in the area, unless of course someone else has better suggestions.

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you'd have to go pretty far east, and then you're dealing with bridges to get into the city, which makes for a nightmare commute.

For ideas, put a <400k filter on a zillow map and see where houses show up.

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A good commute would be 45 min or less during rush hours or high traffic times. Affordable would be ideally 400k or less with high potential for growth (up and coming neighborhoods, property value etc). I don’t have kids but have a hubby. We plan on kids this year (2-3 kiddos)

Thanks! What about east of Seattle ?

Thank you. My brother in law’s brother lives 15 min east of Seattle. We haven’t met yet but still thought it would be nice to be close to family. I don’t know anyone else out there

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