Just saw my first real life hipster

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(01-02-2017, 02:10 PM)Benton Wrote: I have a friend who lived for a couple years on an island north of Seattle. Said outside the city, it was a lot more affordable, almost as cheap as living in Kentucky.


Talked to a guy at the Space Needle (he started the conversation and seemed pretty happy to have someone to talk to who wasn't Asian). He was a native, said things were good until the 90s when they had an "Asian invasion," said people from Japan, China, etc., thought Seattle was a cheap place to vacation. That kind of surprised me considering I paid $15 for what amounted to a ham sandwich at a place near the airport, and dinner at the Space Needle was a few hundred.

That's true of any metro area, but the distance to that fine line of affordability definitely differs from place to place.  Ex, Lots of people who work in and around Washington D.C. commute from as far away as Fredericksburg, VA, ~55 miles and up to 2 hours with bad enough traffic.  I'm about 15 miles from the center of Richmond and I consider it quite affordable, but if I go another 15 miles west I can get double the house for close to the same cost (maybe even less!).


As for Asians considering it a cheap place to vacation, from what I've seen of the costs of Tokyo, I would think they consider anywhere in the U.S. to be a bargain!