Migrating to Seattle.

[huellewig]

I'm planning on moving closer to Canada in a few months. So any DU members have any advice on parts of town to move to in Seattle?

What are the trendy youth and emo hip places to live? Kinda like Hawthorne in Portland. I don't want to live in those places. I just want to be able to grab their women and show them how people with poor parents live.

So if anyone wants to keep me from renting a room in a major ghetto area and let me know of a semi-cheap ($500 for a room would be cool) area with hot chicks displaying spiky-hair and non-lame tattoos I would buy you a beer.

And if any locals want to grab a beer when I make my way up it would be great.

[Mojambo]

1. 500 might be tough to swing

It's been a while since I've been in the market though so maybe you'll do okay.

Try Wallingford or Fremont.
I know some friends with some very reasonably priced digs in Ballard. And it has some killer dive bars as well.

[fortyfeetunder]

2. Check out Seattle Weekly

www.seattleweekly.com

They have room for rent ads sometime.
U district may have room or two before the big crush in September.

[oldtime dfl_er]

3. check out this website

cheap north end housing, some of it looks pretty good:

http://www.roomsandapartments.com/

[flamingyouth]

4. Good luck here

Housing is very expensive here. But it's a great city, and I hope you enjoy your time here.:hi:

(I'd avoid parts of First Hill, BTW. I used to live there, and there are places that are okay and others that are not.)

[progressivebydesign]

5. Don't forget to check Craigs List for rentals and such. N/T

[mrbassman03]

6. If you want closer to Canada...

Check out Bellingham... close enough to Seattle, but if you are getting a job in the city, it's a bit far.

[miss_kitty]

7. Capitol Hill, Eastlake, Fremont, Ballard,

ok...Capitol Hill is sort of getting grungy, but there are nice areas of it, specifically the north and northwest. close to a lot of drugs and night life restaurants, gay and lesbian stuff. grocery stores. close by bus to downtown and the u district. permitted parking. spiky hair, tats, piercings and runaways looking for a fix and a place to crash. still...probably the least homogenised of the areas i feel qualified to to comment on.

i personally live in Eastlake, and have done so for 20 years. you can find affordable housing, parking is on a permit system, but can be a bitch...restaurants and a tiny but devoted nightlife. big upside: a mile from the U district, and about a mile from downtown. big downside: Paul Allen is buying up the south end of the lake to turn it into a biotechtopia. might drive the rents up.

fremont is groovy and funky lotsa restaurants and some pubs, lots of yeast in the hood, breweries and bakeries. major food coop (expensive, but organic) bills itself as "the center of the universe" arty. farty. close to downtown, kinda.

Ballard. friendly warm and Scandinavian! probably the cheapest area to live, as in good value for the money. spread out. wide open parking as far as i know. big parking spaces at the grocery store, because, doncha know, old Norwegians=bad parkers with big cars.

IMHO, stay away from West Seattle, for now anyway, and white center (aka rat city)