Western Washington and populated areas of eastern Washington all pay considerably higher than any red state. Teachers in Washington are union members and we have a very strong union so our pay, benefits, working conditions are better but we experience the same educational issues as everywhere. Consider what you are looking for as far as big city vs suburb vs rural. I teach in rural Olympic Peninsula my pay is about $20,000 less than districts along I-5, but I still make $82,000 after 9 years.

You never know when you might need it. This should be federally funded but I'm grateful for it and am happy to fund it for Washingtonians in need!

If you have any type of craftsman skills, you can do a fairly inexpensive "remodel" if you find an older house or crappy your house that doesn't have a ton of problems. After My experience last summer we just started updating our 1965 modular home. New floors, New kitchen cabinets, paint, trim, for about $2500. It's definitely not ideal, but when you purchase all you're doing is building equity for the future.

With that budget you are going to be very limited with what you can do. I went through this last year and the infrastructure was going to be close to $100k. But in these times any property or land you own is better than nothing.

I believe that was the first place my wife and I camped, too. August 2017, we got drunk and played in the water, and froze that night. We've been back 5 or 6 times.

So beautiful! My favorite beach, too.

You can drive up to hurricane ridge, but it's a ski area right now because it's covered in snow. All of the lower elevation trails are going to be open, so Lake crescent area, solduc area, the high rainforest, and anywhere along the coast are going to be mostly snow free. Though it did just snow out here and there was some snow around Lake crescent (I was out there Saturday ) but no more than a melting inch.

A potential Rick Ness comeback?!

Yeah, that Vancouver island trip sounds ambitious unless you plan on flying to Tofino. Vancouver to San Juans in one day is a stretch too, with ferries (San Juan ferry is in Anacortes, not Bellingham) and border crossing. But it sounds like a fun trip nonetheless!

I miss Warped Tour.

It will undoubtedly be a cool 50 degrees with intermittent rain showers. And it will be awesome!

Check out Whiskey Creek Beach.

Not just in the park, but a lot of highway 101 in that area you won't have cell service.

So maybe get really into sledding. Or just watch Netflix like the rest of us.

Snowboarding makes the winters better. Take advantage of the season!

Check out Matchless Brewing in Tumwater. Great beer.

7:15-2:45.

You must be from upriver.

Hwy 26 to Pullman has some great basalt! But you can find it anywhere along the Columbia river gorge in central Washington.

Do not give in, they are stealing your money! Solidarity.

The K-8 is how you will be certified in Washington, unless you get an Early Childhood education degree. Most larger districts have grade level specific job pools, but you don't have to take any job you don't want to.

Oh no! I disagree, because the sports team were referring to plays in the city of Seattle which is in the state of Washington. So this is 100% a post about the state of Washington. Are you implying that only US citizens and citizens of Washington State should be allowed to work for an employer of a particular state? Baseball players are workers too, and they represent the city of Seattle and the state of Washington.

Just because you don't like sportsballs doesn't mean you're right.

Yeah it's called a professional sport. It's not like a Washington sport, they have different teams and other cities with players from around the world that play in it. It's called Major League baseball. There's also a league for basketball, and there's one for football, and there's one for hockey, and there's one for soccer. In other countries they call soccer, football. and still even in other countries they have players on teams that aren't from the country that they're playing in. They're sports people from around the world play them all.

Are you really that dense, or do you just hate everything?

Seattle is in Washington.

Find some joy in your life, and let people have theirs. Fucking hell.