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Summary: Excellent guide for a Seattle neophyte!
Review: Having decided recently to look into making the big move cross-country, I checked out this book and found it to be a much better than average moving guide. After reading it, I felt like I lived there - maybe not quite a native, but not a newbie either! The author is clearly very familiar with his city, and his stories contain just the right blend of humor and insight. All in all, I thought it was a very enjoyable read...and I just might move to Seattle!
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Summary: blah
Review: I don't like this book. The neighborhood reviews are too short and too opinionated. The author clearly thinks that owning a big pink house in the suburbs is paradise. As a result, his descriptions of the city neighborhoods are all scorn and no detail. Also, a big chunk of the book is boilerplate info from monstermoving.com that has no particular relavence to Seattle.I also got the Newcommers Handbook for Seattle, and I am much more impressed with it.
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Summary: One Stop Shopping
Review: I tend to be a big list maker and have drawers and files crammed full of newspaper clippings and magazine articles. Considering a move to the Seattle area from the mid-Atlantic, I picked up Mr. Steele's "Relocating to Seattle" and found that I had hit the jackpot! Sort of like One Stop Shopping - I found all the information I could possibly need for anticipating and making the move westward. He even had advice and suggestions on topics I hadn't even thought about! Also, expecting - as with many travel books - rather dry text, I was thrilled to find that Mr. Steele's book was a truly enjoyable read! Lots of personal annecdotes and well-placed humor made it a book I will hang onto for years to come.
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Summary: One Stop Shopping
Review: I tend to be a big list maker and have drawers and files crammed full of newspaper clippings and magazine articles. Considering a move to the Seattle area from the mid-Atlantic, I picked up Mr. Steele's "Relocating to Seattle" and found that I had hit the jackpot! Sort of like One Stop Shopping - I found all the information I could possibly need for anticipating and making the move westward. He even had advice and suggestions on topics I hadn't even thought about! Also, expecting - as with many travel books - rather dry text, I was thrilled to find that Mr. Steele's book was a truly enjoyable read! Lots of personal annecdotes and well-placed humor made it a book I will hang onto for years to come.
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Summary: A Very Helpful Book!
Review: My wife and I are relocating to Seattle from Bloomfield Hills, Michigan. Even though we are remaining in our fields of expertise-- engineering and accounting-- and have accepted positions with Fortune 10 corporations, it was not without anxiety that we contemplated our move. We have been in the Great Lakes area for twenty-seven years. Karen bought Mr. Steele's book and we read it prior to making two "fact-finding missions" to Seattle. What we anticipated to be stressful extended weekends turned out to be exciting and productive. Largely this was due to Mr. Steele's book. On the plane, Karen and I practically had to rip the book in half so that she could enjoy the neighborhood and restaurant descriptions and I could enjoy "Working in the City" and "Getting to Know Your Town". Even though we had only three days for our first trip we were able to narrow our neighborhood selection to two areas, Hollywood Hill and Kirkland. On the return visit we made an offer on a perfect "ranchette" and had time to take a cruise of the San Juan Islands. By the time we returned to Michigan, Mr. Steele's book looked like a head of lettuce. Not only did the book save us time and money, it allowed us to partake in some of the finer offerings of Seattle, thus taking the edge off what would have otherwise been stressful times. We highly recommend this book and we highly recommend Seattle!
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Summary: Not Quite Paradise - but Close!
Review: This is one of the very finest "relocation" books that I have had the pleasure of perusing. My career consisted of forty years in the Navy (1948-1988) and twenty different living locations. If ONLY Guy Steele had been around during that period of time to provide advanced information about even just ONE of my living locations, it would have been a blessing. Altho I have visited Seattle from time to time, Guy almost challenges me to try it out for a permanent residence. After reading his book, can I leave Honolulu and head for Seattle? No! But almost!
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Summary: Not Quite Paradise - but Close!
Review: This is one of the very finest "relocation" books that I have had the pleasure of perusing. My career consisted of forty years in the Navy (1948-1988) and twenty different living locations. If ONLY Guy Steele had been around during that period of time to provide advanced information about even just ONE of my living locations, it would have been a blessing. Altho I have visited Seattle from time to time, Guy almost challenges me to try it out for a permanent residence. After reading his book, can I leave Honolulu and head for Seattle? No! But almost!
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