Puget Sound "Urban Peninsula"

When searching for your next real estate purchase, you will find the Puget Sound region is bejeweled with enchantingly attractive, surprisingly diverse areas and neighborhoods.  One that has grown up under the very nose of the Seattle core is West Seattle.  Just across Elliot Bay or the West Seattle Bridge from downtown, this peninsula extends into the Sound and boasts famous restaurants and coffee shops, hundreds of unique stores, good schools, beaches, parks and, of course, spectacular water and city views.  Every ferry leaving the downtown Seattle ferry docks enjoys a view of West Seattle on its port side, dozens of times a day.

I had recently become reconnected to a college friend through the magic of Facebook.  When I mentioned to her my wife and I were considering a move to West Seattle, the tone of her notes suddenly turned ebullient.  I've asked her permission to post her comments here:

 "Until this year I rode the Water Taxi home every day, my bus pass covered it. Sat on the roof soaking up the sun. 12 minute daily vacation. It's moved down to pier 50 this year, and costs a little more, so I may ride it less. One great thing about our surrounding several blocks is how friendly everyone is. We know many of our neighbors--people are way more friendly than in any suburb we lived in. Our house is old too--80 years old. All the houses are interesting, it's a great neighborhood to walk / run in, lots to look at. And the views!!! Wow, even standing at the bus stop I see mountains to the west, today I noticed a snow capped Cascade mountain from our living room I forgot we could see over the house across the street.


"Can you tell we love it here? Oh, and just before Seafair there is a real parade."
 
West Seattle -- just another great place to buy a home...and really live!