Comments by "Indigo Wolf" (@indigowolf556) on "World According To Briggs" channel.

I watched your video and found it interesting although like a lot of people have made comments your home prices are way off. I don't know about these other areas because I don't live on that side of Washington I live on the western Washington side and you may want to do a video about Western washington. You touched on it with oak harbor. I've traveled and been to oak harbor dozens of times. And I can say it is kind of a neat place but it's really super crowded now. The last time that I was there was probably a month ago and traffic everywhere and it wasn't a special weekend or a sunny weekend or anything like that it was basically a work day monday. And they have those stupid roundabouts in the most inconvenient places and there's just tons and tons of traffic now when there didn't used to be and I would say probably about maybe 3 or 4 years ago there wasn't as many people. The rents for apartment complexes are probably starting at $1,500 for a one bedroom and houses are very very expensive I would probably say if you want a decent house you could probably start at maybe $400,000 that might get you a condo. But it's a huge military town as you mentioned so you're going to run into a lot of military folks there. They have a Walmart but it's one of the older Walmarts not a super Walmart and there's a lot of fast food places there there's some mom and pop places but it's just very chaotic at times because there's so many people that live there now. You can cross over to Anacortes which is nice but a lot of the stores and things have closed because of covid. One thing I would mention to anyone who does not live in Washington is you need to come if you're going to seriously move here if you are going to consider moving to Washington don't just come for one visit come for at least a dozen visits and come during different times of the year during winter when it's snows when it's raining and spring or the fall and see what it's like here. and don't just look at a picture and think oh I want to live there because that's the wrong impression. Do your homework people. I mean look at the demographics and check out the school see what people have to say about the schools if you have kids. Just because it's a small town doesn't mean you have great schools. Check out the crime statistics and check out what rents are if you want to rent or maybe rent an apartment in a complex and to see what they are see what people think and remember that Washington state is a military state so we have a lot of bridges that get closed when the sub is going through we have planes that fly overhead when they're doing and testing out their maneuvers and they're very very loud we have all kinds of plants and trees and bushes so if you have allergies this isn't a good place for you to live. We have to deal with black mold a lot and it's does rain here a lot we just never know when it's going to be sunny it gets Misty it gets gray a lot I would say it's probably more gray than it is rainy so if you're a needy Sunshine kind of person don't live here and if you don't like wildlife then you should not live here. We have deer we have coyotes we have wolves we have bears we have otters we have eagles we have Hawks and they share our little world and if you freak out about that you shouldn't live here if you like living in a big city you shouldn't live in this part of the world. But do your research do very detailed research and that's if you move anywhere.
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I was going to make a comment and note that as well. I mean this is October 2021 and I don't know about those other cities, but yeah I would say probably figure $400,000 to start. Unless you want to live in a shack.
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I was going to mention that too. Lynnwood right on the outskirts of everett.
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Love your videos and WA. But now, no housing! Very expensive. If I were people, don't move to a place because it's pretty or???
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Well I wonder if these small towns still have cheap rents after the pandemic which is still happening and the housing issue. Somebody wrote about medical services and I can tell you that I live in western Washington and I live on the Olympic peninsula and one of the things you have to consider is of course first of all you should do a lot of detailed research before moving anywhere but particularly to small towns. Visit that place during different times of the year and at least half a dozen times. Don't just look at a picture and say I want to live there because there's so much to think about and unless you have money just to move all over the globe you would be wasting it. But one thing I can mention about the medical services living in a small town is that generally you have a Band-Aid hospital and if you need anything major you're going to end up going to a bigger city probably 2 hours away. So for all of us that live on the Olympic peninsula when we want better doctors and we can't get what we need from the Band-Aid hospital we go to Kitsap county because they have a lot better doctors and specialist to choose from and when they can't deal with it then they send you to Seattle and that is basically an hour and a half drive on a good day or else you can drive to Bainbridge which is an hour and a half you take a half hour ferry or go across the Tacoma narrows bridge probably which cost like $10 to go across. So that's the only thing I can tell you about medical services where I live is that there's some doctors but I think most of them only move to like small towns where there's fishing and hiking and all kinds of outdoor activities is because they want to retire so they work a few years and then they retire and then that's it. Plus there's so many people living on the Olympic peninsula now that doctors are totally overwhelmed and plus with the pandemic our little Band-Aid hospital is actually looking for a lot of people to hire so good luck with that. That sounds terrible but a lot of people have left their jobs and the town that I live weather it's because it was a crappy job or they just can't afford to live in this town anymore or they want to go plant daffodils in New Mexico I don't know but rent is very very very expensive and the remark about social security being at least $1,500 that's pretty general because not everyone makes that much generally it's under and not everyone retires from the military so there's a lot of retirees that are really not rich and they have to rely on subsidized housing and they have to rely on government subsidies so that's something to think about. But if you're somebody and you can work from home another thing to think about and I think you mentioned this is like what kind of night life is there. Because in my town they were at the sidewalks at 5:00 maybe a restaurant might be open but when you're 20 years old and you want to go out and eat and you want to go to a bar that has some nightlife and you want to go dancing or you want to do something besides kayaking canoeing hiking or watching the grass grow we don't have anything like that on the Olympic peninsula at all I don't even know if they have that in Kitsap I think they have a bowling alley. So take those things into consideration. I do enjoy watching your videos though you have a really nice voice.
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