tech workers trying to escape the ridiculous prices in Silicon Valley and San Francisco by coming to the Seattle area.
I suspect demand may elevate local prices equal to those in the places they are leaving behind.

they are the very ones who drove up the prices in the Bay Area. They trash every place they go.

because of, in my opinion, overly generous salaries. My wife's nephew works for a tech company in San Jose and gets over $200K a year plus a sizable year end bonus. And he's just a middle management guy, not some V.P..

I watched housing prices soar in late 70's and again in late 1980's in Seattle.

In late 70's Vancouver BC had an insane housing bubble, driving by wealthy Iranians fleeing after the Shah was deposed. They had tons of money, I knew some of them, and they discussed their new business of flipping as
many houses as they could buy.
Exactly the same thing as the Cal. housing bubbles.

so, by end of the 1980's, I was priced out, and had to move where jobs and lower housing could be found.

Now it is foreign investors and real estate moguls who are making a market we cannot afford.

We have to stay in the grasp of Kaiser due to my stroke in January (too scared to switch)..There are MANY houses in that area that would work just fine for us....Seattle is too pricey for our pocketbook and too "Traffic-y"..

I fell in love with Port Orchard, but due to medicare necessities, we are stickinh with Kaiser and south Washington has kaiser...

My family lived in Port Orchard when I was born, but my birth certificate says Bremerton because Mom took the ferry over.
Bremerton does not have Keiser.??

I fell in love with Port Orchard..but after my stroke in January, I am too scared to risk getting crappy insurance.. It only cost us $200..the bill was almost 40k for 32 hours in the Er/hospital.. and we have zero per month in copay, so all we pay is $104.90 per person on medicare..

It has, for years, been the less expensive of the immediate Seattle neighborhoods.

I was always partial to Green Lake/Phinney Ridge area, myself, it is close to the Univ. of Wash.

My son and my brother both live in Seattle, neither drives, they are very happy with bikes in good weather and bus service in wet weather. Really a good city for getting around in.