Where I'm from I had income tax plus 8.5% sales tax plus much higher property taxes, so yeah it certainly is better here.

Formerly from close enough to MA to hate your drivers on a regular basis, but I miss the warm ocean waters and beaches of the east coast. Ocean beaches out here are certainly different.

When I moved here I braced for this 6 months of rain I would hear about. However, I have found over 3 years, there are always sunny days/part of days. I just learned to appreciate the breaks more and told myself you don't have to shovel rain! I did find it a little tough last year how long it took for spring/summer to show up, though.

If you’re working and living in Port Orchard, you’ll be great. If you live in Port Orchard and commute to Bremerton, you’re gonna have a hard time with the traffic. The Naval shipyard can cause quite the back ups and there’s only a two-lane hiway going from Bremerton to Port Orchard and Back.

DM me if you want... I am a bit of a hermit, but live in the vicinity.

Download the app called all trails. You'll have all the maps you need. If you go out of cell service area you might want to download them and take a battery pack for your phone.

Get a nice boat and you will love it. Lots of hiking and fishing too. 6 months of rain gets old though.

Dogs must on leash in King County.

We're up there quite often so it'll be nice to have some more trails to do!

No problem. I would also check out Denny Creek and the other trailheads around Snoqualmie. About an hour from Tacoma.

We moved from the Alpharetta area. We lived there for almost 25 years

I really like how easy it is to get to anything from here: the airport, the.mountains, the ocean, Seattle. We looked around many different parts of WA before deciding on this area and we have never been sorry. Housing is more expensive than Georgia but we found this.area much cheaper than many other areas in WA. We love the cooler weather and have not found the rainy days too bad. Fyi: annual rainfall in Atlanta is higher than Seattle. Seattle just spreads it out more. PO is definitely a small town but there is pretty much everything you need on the peninsula.

Thank you! We'll have to make a trip up there soon!

Wsdot has an office in that area and they have posted me there

We'll work our way up there at some point, thank you!

Port Orchard is tiny, I'm shocked there's a job looking out of state. Parts are super cute and nice, other parts you lose your catalytic converter a week after replacing it.

It was actually a landscaper guy that was branching out a little. He had the excavator, skid-steer, a chainsaw, and a three person crew.

What part of GA if you don't mind me asking?

Kitsap is great, haven’t lived in PO but it is pretty cute, plenty of stuff to do between nature and the little downtown. Port orchard isn’t the most progressive area, if that’s important to you. But it is really nice on this side of the sound.

If you're hardcore drive up to the lake constance trail in the Olympics.

It's a very hard trail, be sure to bring more snacks (and a beer) than you think you'll need. Also start early so you can take more breaks.

That really depends what you are looking for. We moved to PO from Georgia about 3 years ago and love it. But we hated the weather and politics in Georgia so if you love these things in Georgia, you won't like it in Washi gton.

Maybe try over in r/Kitsap .

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With legalization, we can have proper education

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You didn’t ask DMV? Also, a five second google search would have sufficed 😂