Originally Posted By WDWdreamin I'll be moving to Puyallup some time. I'm hoping before Thanksgiving. I sent my license application in on October 1st, but they are dealing with Sept. 23rd today! I've signed the job contract and am looking at living situations and now I'm stalled. Anyway, some LPers said that there are other Dlovers in that area. I've lived in Green Lake, Seattle for 3 months, but know little about Puyallup. I do know where it is - SE of Tacoma towards Mt. Rainier. Please share with me anything you know about the area, or if you live near there, or comments about crazy-hard-to-pronounce names of places.
Originally Posted By ophellia Nice area! I've been through thereonce 4 years ago...there's a cool place, North West Trek near there...a wonderful nautural place to visit with lote of animals roaming free... I'm in SW Wa and NW Or and I dont get over that way often but I have friends near there and they love it all...enjoy! Funny name though huh? Pew-wallup!
Originally Posted By WDWdreamin Yes, I was told to say Pew-wallup. I've been to both NW Trek and Woodland Park Zoo behind-the-scenes. Yay vet school field trips! I love to go to the zoo, but I'll probably end up getting a NW Trek AP, if not both.
Originally Posted By Mary Poppins I live further north, but we do get advertisement on Seattle television for the Puyallup Fair. I think it is a good fair.
Originally Posted By TomSawyer Puyallup isn't a bad area at all though it may have a few rough edges that you'd find in most suburbs. It has been hit somewhat hard by the real estate downturn, but nothing on the scale that places like California are seeing. You will be in a good location for taking advantage of the things there are to do here. You'll have good access to Mt Rainier, the ocean beaches and the Olympic Peninsula. You cna get some great info at <a href="http://www.city-data.com/forum" target="_blank">http://www.city-data.com/forum</a>.
Originally Posted By ophellia Oh here's a couple of other sites you might like if you venture west... funbeach.com and my new website (under construction) nahalemriver.com please sign our guest book!
Originally Posted By WDWdreamin I put the nahalemriver.com in google and didn't get anything. Mt. Rainier looks great. I don't ski or anything, but it looks beautiful. I'm not so excited seeing the low "sunny days" and cold temperatures for when I'm moving there - Nov/Dec, but it's an adventure!
Originally Posted By Tinkeroon iamsally has spoken of this town, to us, many times...maybe she can chime in here too. Ruthie!!!!?????!!!!...
Originally Posted By ophellia SORRY my bad.... it's nehalemriver.com Cant spell my own site????ack!!!
Originally Posted By MissCandice If Mount Rainier blows, Puyallup will most likely be destroyed. I am not helping either, am I? I have been to the Puyallp Fair twice now so obviously I am an expert. It looked lovely, the parts I have seen. There are several LP'ers up here (including me) so you'll have to come to our next local meet!
Originally Posted By Princessjenn5795 I live in Snoqualmie so I am not all that familiar with it but, having gone to the Puyallup fair almost every year of my life, I will say that you will not want to buy/rent a house within a several block radius of the fairgrounds. Every year I see a ton of people having to sit in their yards to shoo off fair goers looking for a place to park. Good luck with everything! I hope the move and new job work out well for you!
Originally Posted By officerminnie I have lived near Puyallup (12-15 miles away) for most of my life and have many friends who live there. The actual city of Puyallup where the fairgrounds are located (very quaint older homes, parks, small farms, mom and pop stores, etc) lies in the path of an erupting Mt. Rainier's lava flow, but up on the plateau sits an area known as "South Hill" which is in unincorporated Pierce County. South Hill contains many nice housing developments, rural homes on acreage, restaurants,movie theaters, parks, libraries, TWO Wal-Marts, the South Hill Mall, and much, much more. It is a nice area but the main thoroughfare where all these businesses are located is horribly congested and I avoid it like the plague. It is the infamous "Meridian St.", AKA Highway 161. You will learn how to use alternate routes to avoid sitting in the stop-and-go (mostly stop) traffic though. You can go to the Sheriff's Department website at piercesheriff.org and look at the crime statistics for any specific address where you might intend to live, if that is something you are concerned about. But generally it is a nice area and my friends and relatives who live there are happy with it. Good luck, and welcome to Pierce County!
Originally Posted By WDWdreamin So, I was looking to live with at least one roommate (female), but now my dad's cousins in Enumclaw are thinking about letting me live in their house (house-sitting) since they'll be gone until May. It's exciting, 10 miles from the job, and I'm sure they'll charge less and it'd be the best overall, but I am worried about being lonely living by myself in a new place. My mom says to meet people at church and an exercise class and..., but I don't know how good I would be at that.
Originally Posted By TXDISNEYNERD It sounds like there are quite a few LPers in the area so maybe you can organize a mini-meet when you get there.
Originally Posted By WDWdreamin Well, actually, it'll be me and officerminnie. Maybe the people who have been to the fair before but don't live there would be up for it, but some sound like they are hours away. I'll look into it when I know I'll be up there. Do I sound impatient yet?
