![]() Plus the Issaquah School District is fantastic as are the parks, etc. You also have Beaver Lake and Lake Sammamish right in Sammamish/Issaquah. ![]() Some of the best hiking in the region starts in Issaquah and personally I love being able to walk a half block down my street and pop my kayak in Pine Lake. One plug for Issaquah/Sammamish is that it is going to be most similar to Boulder in terms of the hiking and nature available outside your door. AMZN gives you Orca pass and supplements like 8 days a month or something. Echo what everyone else has already said on parking DT, etc. since he liked to leave early 25-35 minutes on the way in, longer on the way home. My husband's commute to AMZN at SLU was anywhere from 55 minutes to 1 hr 20 minutes from the south end of the Plateau (South Sammamish/Issaquah) on the bus depending on time of day he left. The lotteries would be happening very shortly in most school districts. Ours was about $300 per month in the Issaquah School District. You get in all day K through lottery and have to pay extra to go full day. ![]() One thing to note is that WA State does not have mandatory all day K. Would be great for you to get to know the area and for your wife to check out schools. I would have used more than a few weeks of it if I had not had older kids needing to start school not long after we arrived. I think they gave us 3 months in 2007 so I would assume it's something similar. You might also consider a vanpool or carpool with other people you work with.Īmazon has pretty good corporate housing relo benefits so you would not be forced to buy something right from the get go. The bus goes in the express lanes which are at or above the speed limit all day. After 4pm it can be top and go the whole way. It starts on 99 and 5 south getting to the ramps near the stadiums, moves at 25-30 across the bridge, then is bumper to bumper at Mercer Island and again where it meets the 405 ramps. Since the 520 toll, I90 Eastbound is congested from 3:30 on. If you are in the middle to the Issaquah end and take I90 (I'm right in the middle) you can make it in 35 minutes if you start by 6:30am, but it will take as much as an hour to get home. If you are in the middle or toward 202 and take the 520 (and pay the toll) you can easily make it in 20-25 minutes in the morning, about 40 coming back as you will run into Microsoft traffic in Redmond. Sammamish goes from Issaquah to Redmond along a plateau, so it depend where you start and whether you go I90 or 520 bridge. Just curious what would the drive time be from there? I am guessing no where near the 20-30 min Google maps says. Yeah I wouldn't mind the walk at all I don't think. Edmonds might be worth a look! We'd look there if I didn't work in Bellevue. Then you don't have to take a bus all the way through town. And, depending on how far you live from the busline or I-5, your commute can take just as long as coming from Issaquah.Īs for the Sounder, there's a Amazon employee-only shuttle that goes from the International District (where the trains are) right up to the Amazon campus. But you'll have to look up the schools one by one: it's hit or miss. People like North Seattle neighborhoods: from Greenwood down to Ballard, over to Wallingford. Mercer Island: even closer, even more expensive, but the best schools and the quietest neighborhoods. ![]() You don't need to do a bus transfer, it's only a 15 minute walk from Westlake center to even the furthest Amazon building.īellevue will be closer, more expensive, but with better schools. My husband's commute from Issaquah to SLU is about 1 hr door to door via bus, but he leaves at 6:30am.
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