I moved my wife up from Santa Monica, CA to Lynnwood. Let's just say she's always telling me about new housing developments we should check out ELSEWHERE. I can't blame her as I'd never consider the majority of the Lynnwood area a final destination.
But...Lynnwood's not too bad. However, I think it kind of depends on one's priorities and how much you really care if you live amongst a bunch of washed up, homeless druggies, destructive and directionless youth and lazy lower-middle-class folks who just don't give a **** about themselves, their property or anyone around them.
Just on my street alone, I've got several abandoned, graffiti-tagged houses which are about to fall down if they haven't already. There are once-nice homes/yards which are going to crap because the owner(s) are dumping scrap building materials, washers/driers, and other stuff just out in their yards in public sight and half of the fences have been tagged by some amateur delinquent.
I used to tell myself I'd never live up north as I was coming from the Issaquah area but hey, here I am now for about 5 years due to a variety of factors. Unless the house values come back up, I'm probably not going anywhere soon since I've lost so much on my home.
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