THIS IS SEATTLE.

 

 

 

THIS IS CAPITOL HILL

Safeway:
A big chain grocery store, exactly like Dominics.

Eastlake:
A neighborhood in Seattle on the waterfront which is North of Downtown and South of the University District (the area in and around the University of Washington). It is a relativley new area built around the Marina, and has many houseboats and docks along its edge. The neighborhood is mostly students and families, filled with new condos, yuppie shops, hippie restaurants and bro-bars. It is stunningly beautiful and rent is categorically cheaper there than up in historic Capitol Hill or ritzy Downtown.

Olympia:
A very beautiful city about 90 miles north of Seattle, home to Evergreen State College , also the capitol of Washington state. Olympia is run by hippies and environmentalists, there is a very distinct "crustpunk" vibe amongst the students which bleeds into Seattle culture to add to the grunge-subversion. The conrtast between shiny, tech-savvy Seattle and dirty, beautiful Olympia is stunning, especially because the cities are less than 2 hours apart.

Woodinville:
An annoying suburb about 27 miles outside of downtown Seattle. Houses, schools, chain restaurants, grocery stores. The tourism website for Woodinville says that it offers "hot air ballooning, spas, trails, equestrian recreation, parks, wineries, a Farmers Market, community events, and nursery and greenhouse facilities". Any suburb in the Seattle area will likely offer these things, the Northwest is very lush with greenspace and the economy is doing very well thanks to Microsoft, Boeing, Amazon, and countless other corporations having headquarters in Seattle and nearby Bellevue.

Redmond:
Where Microsoft headquarters is located, an evergrowing suburb-city about 30 miles from Seattle

Renton:
A suburb much like Renton. These bigger, less expensive-than-Woodinville- suburbs are also home to many factories for locally made tires, lumber, and other important Washingtonian needs, filled with  farms and rural spaces as well as suburban neighborhoods. More industry than Woodinville, less than Seattle.