What's Spokane, WA like?

It's like a roller coaster, cherry pie, and anal sex all rolled into one.

Bump for primetime

It's the Paris of Eastern Washington state!

Nicknamed Spokompton.

It's filled with mostly white methheads who are criminals. Also has quite a number of samoans who are criminal as well. Super republican too.

I think it's pretty conservative. Not that far from Idaho.

R5 - ugh, I was afraid of that. I was hoping to hear ANY good news, but it sounds like a frightful place to live and work.

Any other stories? Any glimmer of hope?

Just to qualify - the person would probably only live there for 3 or 4 years and then go somewhere else.

Yes, R7. My late stepmother grew up on a farm there. I saw photos of Spokane on someone's social account recently. It's gorgeous in the summer - lots of hills and vegetation. You could grow your own food and gardens there easily.

If you have a well paying job, make friends with others who are there because of well paying jobs. You'll be fine. Don't pass up a good job because of methheads. Those are everywhere.

Isn't Gonzaga U. in Spokane? I met a G. professor who commuted to Seattle and had a home on Lake Washington. Spokane isn't a terrible place. You can meet non-druggies there. It would be an easy place to save up money. HTH

No r7, it would not be frightful if you have a well paying job. People make fun of the place, but it won't be hellish with a good job especially since the COL is lower than any big city. you won't have a hole in your pocket while saving up and it will all be worth it if you're smart.

We're not talking about abandoned areas of Detroit here.

Thanks R8 and R9 - it would be a very well paid position - a few hundred grand per year I would imagine. There are a ton of daily flights to Seattle, so that's always an easy get away.

This article from 2013 is hopeful

[quote]Isn't Gonzaga U. in Spokane? I met a G. professor who commuted to Seattle and had a home on Lake Washington.

Yes, Gonzaga is in Spokane, but there's no way you could commute from Seattle to Spokane unless you had a private jet. It's at least a four-hour drive, one way.

Isn't Walla-Walla near Spokane? That's supposed to be lovely, although it's as rife with white supremacists as Spokane is.

Spokane's not that bad. Less cosmopolitan than I'd like but there are some beautiful parts of town, like the neighborhood around Manito Park. Cost of living is reasonable. It snows a lot in the winter and it's hot in the summer. My mom says it reminds her of the Midwest - coming from my mom, that's a compliment.

A friend bought a dilapidated old Craftsman style house in a pretty but kind of run-down neighborhood, put a lot of sweat equity into it and was going to sell and move on. But during the lengthy restoration process, other people in the neighborhood started remodeling and cleaning up too, and my friend decided to stay. He's happy there.

My cousins grew up in Coeur d'Alene, and Spokane was the "big city". It's a nice city, lots of outdoor activities (skiing, golf, big lake). One lives in Post Falls now, the other two closer to Spokane but outside the city. They all have huge homes and love it there.

In Spokane all seems to breathe freedom and peace and to make one forget the world and its sad turmoils.

Isn't that the place that has animal brothels where that Boeing worker got assfucked by a horse and died from a perforated colon?

Right..."friend",

It's got Dirty Dicks, so tell your bud to be careful.

Is it like Rokane Virginia?

It's like Tacoma, but not on the water.

Anything to add since 2016? Should a gay move to Spokane?

It's 40 miles from Coeur d'Alene, ID, which is nice (an easy commute). Spokane is a little run down, but not terrible. It's quite livable and surrounded by a beautiful wooded landscape.

A bunch of bottoms with bedrooms that look like they haven't been updated since 1972. W. O. O. D. P. A. N. E. L. I. N. G.

[quote] A bunch of bottoms with bedrooms that look like they haven't been updated since 1972. W. O. O. D. P. A. N. E. L. I. N. G.

Oh my glob! What about the bedrooms of the tops?

It is very very very very white. Having said that, I lived there for a couple of years and generally liked it. Pretty decent arts community, a great city if you like outdoorsy stuff, some great restaurants, all the IPA you could want, and it's not that far from Portland and Seattle. There were like... 2 gay bars when I lived there. It is a bit on the conservative side and a Russian Orthodox community that is intensely homophobic but it's pretty easy to avoid all of that bullshit.

It's close to Seattle

It's 300 miles from Seattle. How the fuck is that close?

r27 Four hours is not close. Would you say Boston is close to Philadelphia?

Is it close to One-Eyed Jack's?

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Isn't it full of white supremacists?

We used to call it Spo-compton years ago because of the crime. Might be better now, haven't been there in a long time.

Patty Duke lived in Coeur d'Alene, Idaho and they would go to Spokane and enjoyed it very much 😀

Patty Duke was nuts.

We'll take Walla Walla, thank you . . .

Did they have a big scandal with their gay mayor a while back?

Rachel Dolezal is from Spokane, so. Proceed with caution.

R35 it was not a nut house LOL