To the west of Everett was the Pacific ocean when I was there anyway.
Nope. First Lake WA, then another strip of land, then Puget Sound. The Pac. Ocean is about 200 miles away.
I've been there. It sits on a ridge top. Go down the ridge to the west and you have Puget Sound, part of the Pacific. Go down the ridge to the east and you have the Snohomish river bottomlands. The Snohomish river runs north to the east of Everett and enters Puget Sound just north of the city. The Cascade Mts are miles away.
While the Puget Sound is an inlet of the Pacific, we don't consider it to be the Pacific Ocean. The Pacific Ocean forms the western boundary of WA state.
Trust me Brumar, any buildable land of consequence is north of Everett, not east. Here's a map.......there is less than 25 miles between Everett and the Cascade Mts National Park and of that, most of it is foothills to the Cascades and/or built up:
maps.mustseemap.com
Yeah you can see them from Everett but they're quite a few miles away.
Around ten miles.
I guess it depends on what you define as the beginning of the mountains .... but if you want to say 10 miles, okay. Thats 10 miles that you could put a bunch of Everett's into. Confirming there is plenty of undeveloped land up there.
Much of it is built up........you can't tell because of all the trees that face along the freeways and roads. Its part of what makes the PNW the PNW......we are considered subtropical rain forest. When they build, they preserve as many of the trees as possible. But when you get behind the trees, there are subdivisions and suburban development. It just looks raw to the untrained eye.
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But the state gov't does make it unique.....that was my point.
The metro Austin area has much lower housing costs than Silicon Valley, but much higher housing costs than many parts of rural Texas. As a result of the relatively high concentration of high-tech companies in the region, Austin was strongly affected by the dot-com boom in the late 1990s and subsequent bust. The general consensus is that high-tech recovery is proceeding rapidly. Austin's biggest employers include the State of Texas, The University of Texas, the SETON Healthcare Network, Dell, IBM and Freescale Semiconductor (spun off from Motorola in 2004). Other high-tech companies in Austin include Apple Inc., Vignette, AMD, Applied Materials, Cirrus Logic, Hoover's, Inc., Intel, Motive Inc, National Instruments, Samsung, Silicon Laboratories, Sun Microsystems, and United Devices. The proliferation of technology companies has led to the region's nickname, "the Silicon Hills," (Austin was originally "Silicon Gulch", but San Jose, California already had that distinction) and has spurred rapid development that has greatly expanded the city to the north, south, east, and west. Not only is Austin home to many high-tech companies, it is also headquarters for Whole Foods and Gatti's Pizza, a pizza buffet chain.
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Austin area does have plenty of high tech companies but so does Houston and Dallas-Ft Worth. The above list of companies in Austin didn't include Texas Instruments, Compaq (now part of HP), EDS, BMC Software and much else .... that started in places like Houston and Dallas.
My God, are you dense? Its not just tech.....its gov't, its the university, a healthcare network, its Whole Foods, a pizza chain et al. There is a lot of diverse industry in Austin which buffers it during recessions. Its probably the fastest growing large [over a million people] metro area in TX.
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