Best Neighborhoods
Kirkland: It’s the Water
Home to more than 100 tech companies
This vibrant neighborhood is popular with young families and many of the 50 or so city parks include playgrounds often teeming with laughing children. In 2022, Money magazine ranked Kirkland the third-best place to live in the United States. In 2023, Smart Asset rated it the No. 7 most livable small city in the country.
llustration by Martin Haake
The Indie Darling
Known for its gritty, industrial past, Georgetown now boasts an eclectic mix of locally-owned cafés, restaurants, and shops
“When I first arrived in Seattle, I was working in a welding shop in Georgetown, and I also lived on Airport Way,” says Tim Ptak, who opened the popular diner Smarty Pants in 2003. “There was nowhere to eat except for grabbing fried chicken at the Shell gas station, and I wanted to open a place where people could get a good lunch and grab something to drink after work.”
Illustration by Martin Haake
Publisher’s Note: A Sense of Place
What makes Seattle distinctive and unique?
Growing up in Edmonds during the 1970s, many beautiful attributes of the Pacific Northwest became inseparable from my notion of what “Seattle’’ really was. I vividly remember the smell of the beach, the sound of ferry boats, and an indelible sense of community from the city’s small-town feel…
Seattle’s Best Neighborhoods in 2020
Find yourself a place to call home
This article appears in print in the March 2020 issue, as part of the “Best Neighborhoods” cover story. Click here to subscribe. Whether you’re searching for your first house, a promising investment or the best place to raise a family, seeing your personality reflected in a neighborhood is just as important as making sure the home’s foundation…
Seattle’s Best Neighborhoods: Ones to Watch
As neighborhoods throughout the city grow and change, here’s a handful of hot areas to keep an eye on
This article appears in print in the March 2020 issue, as part of the “Best Neighborhoods” cover story. Click here to subscribe. InterbayExpedia’s newly opened waterfront campus is a shiny bellwether of things to come in this decreasingly industrial neighborhood, yet this strip separating Magnolia and Queen Anne has caught the attention of enterprising small-business owners, too….
Which Seattle Neighborhoods Are Seeing the Biggest Changes in Home Values?
Zillow gives us the future forecast on where Seattle's neighborhoods are heading
This article appears in print in the March 2018 issue, as part of the “Best of the Burbs” cover story. Click here for the rest of the story. We’d all like to know where the hot home deals are today—in other words, where we can buy today and have some assurance that our home value will grow….
Best of the Burbs: The Next Generation of Seattle Suburbs
Living outside the city has always been an attractive option for many, but with housing prices in Seattle going up, up and up, the suburbs around us are more magnetic than ever.
The Issaquah Highlands, a planned community, offers city-like density and amenities in the burbs
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