Bellevue neighborhoods have next to no street lighting and old power lines that look like they were built in the 1920s. It feels uncomfortable in the neighborhoods at night (can't see shit) and the small rundown bungalows don't help. There are rundown houses right beside modern luxury mansions. People love to say Bellevue is "boujie" and that may be true downtown but definitely not in neighborhoods. Why does such a wealthy area have awful infrastructure? Seattle is far ahead even in poorer places.
Welcome to the great American post-WWII suburban sprawl with NIMBY characteristics. You get vibrant cities like Seattle that can't keep up with demand due to artificial constraints, decent but unaffordable suburbs like Kirkland due to artificial constraints, and underdeveloped "suburbs" with nothing in them (but that workers can actually afford) like Hellevue and Deadmond. Due to artificial constrains.
You keep saying artificial constraints, what are they?
Parking minimums, setback laws (house must be x feet away from the road), single family zoning, minimum lot sizes. These all constrain the amount of houses you can have in a certain area. https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=2pG1YDEGmXc
I'm just a renter but even I look at Bellevue and 90% of it is really crappy rundown apartments that look like cheap motels. Seattle has way nicer apartment buildings in its neighborhoods
So young, naive and entitled 🤣 Please move
It’s not boujie, it’s parvenue.
Zoning, zoning, zoning.
It’s thriving due to tech. Else who the heck goes to Seattle and Bellevue 😂
No income tax Diverse population Gorgeous nature and mountains Mild weather Top 5 best schools in the country Clean air Outdoor recreation wonderland There's a reason the rich love it here. It would be expensive with or without tech. However the fact that Seattle metro has some of the best jobs in the country and some of the highest incomes in the country sure helps.
Too 5 schools , you’ve got to be kidding here, everything else is true, however it would not have even - third of the price without the tech money
nimby policies