They’re both home to Big Tech, liberal politics and natural beauty, but Seattle’s big lure: relatively cheaper housing.
In recent years, red states have relished the chance to take a deep dig at dark blue California: The Golden State is hemorrhaging residents, and many are moving to the low-tax Republican havens of Texas, Arizona and Florida.
Christine Stephens, left, and her husband, Blake, with their children in front of their home in Bellevue, Washington, on Thursday, August 3, 2023. The Stephens moved from Fremont, Calif., to a five-bedroom, three-bath, 3,000-square-foot house with huge windows overlooking a green preserve with 50-foot pine trees and big-leaf maples in Eastgate neighborhood just outside Seattle.
The only major Bay Area County with a lower average housing cost — Contra Costa — also happens to be the only one for which Seattle is not the top out-of-state destination for residents on the move. Instead, Contra Costans moved in higher numbers to Phoenix’s Maricopa County or Las Vegas’ Clark County, Nevada, where housing costs are even lower.
Over the previous 10 years, they moved seven times, from Hayward to Santa Clara and North San Jose, always searching for a better place to raise their kids and save money for a down payment on a place of their own. They finally settled into a $3,200 “bare bones” rental in Fremont, where they bundled up in the winter when the heating gave out and sweltered in the summer without air conditioning.
It wasn’t long ago that Seattlites were the ones clamoring to trade in 152 days of rain each year for the sun-soaked Bay Area. Still, most people who left the Bay Area didn’t even leave the state. Nearly 69% of people who relocated out of Alameda County, for example, moved to another part of California in 2021. Experts say that many people who flee the Bay Area are looking to relocate to cheaper, more bucolic counties nearby where housing prices are lower.
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