Mitigate it.

>The heat doesn't really bother me so much. With AC these days you either just stay inside or you stay in your car while you're driving somewhere

This feels weird to me, because I'd so much rather have a grey day where I can go out and live my life than be stuck inside because of the temperature. I'm not trying to convince you you're wrong, just explaining why I wouldn't want to live elsewhere.

And I also won't try to convince you that it's not too expensive to comfortably live here as a regular person -- it is! When I was waiting tables most people I knew had multiple jobs. That said, I've also lived the small town lifestyle in eastern washington and it's incredibly isolating. Way cheaper, but there's nothing worthwhile to spend your money on either. Also, cool places are expensive. There are places I'd consider living other than Seattle, but they're almost universally more expensive, or have a job market that's bad enough that they're functionally more expensive.

Who cares about the camera? The cop and the cameras in his car saw it. Go slower next time and you wouldn’t need to run a yellow.

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How much time have you spent in other places? Seattle is certainly more grey than other places, but we also rarely get extreme weather -- go east and it'll get more sunny but it'll regularly go north of 100 degrees in summer and can go below 0 in winter. Obviously further south along the coast the weather is often pretty idyllic, but it's even more expensive down there and often has worse options career wise. Then you've gotta factor in how much of the country is just small towns where there's nothing to do and driving anywhere interesting is going to take you two or three hours, compared to the Seattle/Bellevue area which has a lot of state parks within half an hour if you get lucky with traffic.

I know people who've become way more happy after moving away from here, for sure, but I've also known a lot of people who moved here for a reason.

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The camera not going off probably doesn't help you, the cameras are not perfect and falsely trigger or fail to trigger all the time. Which is why the they are required to be reviewed before spending you a ticket. On the contrary, it probably would have been better for you if it did go off and you didn't run the red.

But always talk to a traffic lawyer anyways, having a clean record or at least not having something on your record recently is still probably your best defense.

they may be designed that way but they are far from perfect and road conditions can and do effect stopping times, your best bet is to take it to court and contest the ticket on the grounds that you felt it would be unsafe to come to a stop at that point due to road/traffic conditions

Traffic signals are timed so that if you’re going the speed limit you will have enough time to either stop before the signal turns red or clear the intersection on the yellow. Either you were speeding or you ran the red. Both show poor judgment. I’d pay the fine you earned and exercise better judgment in the future.

I believe it is Sourdough Mountain, and yes, you can climb it. I’m not 100% sure but it sure looks a fun hike!

What peak is that and can you climb it?

I don’t have diabetes. So I’m not gona say I understand what you are going through. What you are going through is extremely difficult but don’t give up. In the meantime stay close to your friends and keep up with hobbies that make you happy. Hugs

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I actually learned this from his course at CWU! Excellent professor and everyone interested should watch his courses/series. If I had taken that class at the beginning of college I might have become a geology major.

Rather Enchanting picture 😎

If you’re determined to move you can do it. I know these days are getting harder and harder. So make it almost like a full time job applying at different places in different cities. Eventually you can land on something

Nick Zentner from the university in Ellensburg has a facinating series of videos on youtube about the geology of the PNW. 10/10 highly recommend.

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Well you can always move to Egypt if you don’t like it… I hear they got 12 months of sunshine waiting right for you! Washington weather is personally my favorite… constant beating sun is miserable and depressing.

I want to point out its nowhere near as easy as everyone thinks it is. Even with a degree in this economy you're gonna be sending out alot of apps and not hearing anything back. And the boot camps can run you up to like 30k and be very intense for people unfamiliar with the concepts. But yes it's technically possible to do.

On the topic of the weather etc. there are people that would kill (myself included) to experience the weather WA has to offer. I live in the midwest and the winters can be well into the negatives and summer is easily in the 100s alot of the time.

It's somewhat like stock fundamentals, washington had very high quality of life and economic strength as a state but public perception undervalued it. Then when people realized how great it was for cost of living everyone started flocking here until prices and crowds ballooned...

Gorgeous

Your main issue seemed to be prices tho? The number of units taken is 100% relevant to pricing for larger metro areas like Seattle. If the number is low enough and sprea out enough then the change in prices if they weren't airbnb wouldn't be distinguishable from natural market fluctuations....Hawaii is much closer to euro cities in how fragile the housing market is and higher demand form tourists than Seattle....