Haha thanks! I appreciate your comment! And I’ll definitely try to get more Seattle lifestyle videos out there. There’s a lot to do so the hard part is narrowing it down lol.

Thank you! I'm glad you enjoyed the video and I really appreciate your comment! And yes, I definitely have been enjoying the Seattle area. The city and mountains are beautiful!

Glad I could help!

I appreciate it! glad it could help :)

Thank you! It's a difficult topic to talk about, without getting other upset

Glad it helped!

Thanks! And that’s exciting! You’ll be just in time to see all the spring flowers come march

Haha glad to hear I'm not the only one! It is super convenient to use. And thank you!!! :D

That's so awesome! It's one of the most beautiful cities. I'm excited for you!

I really appreciate the feedback! I didn’t know this and probably wouldn’t have corrected myself if you didn’t let me know. I actually use Davinci Resolve so I’m sure there’s a way to correct it. Thanks again!

@@Chris_jae No problem, man! I'm not super familiar with Resolve but I believe you can click on your VO audio track and go to the "Inspector" tab at the top right and adjust it with the "Clip Pan" slider. If not, there are tutorials and forums that would be able to help more than I lol.

Thank you! :)

@@Chris_jae yw

That’s exciting!!! It’s a great area to live in. Glad it was helpful!

This is actually really helpful! I had been avoiding these roads cause I though they were toll roads. haha all this time I guess I was inconveniencing myself for no reason. Thanks for the information! If you don't mind, can I pin your comment?

Haha thank you! And I do have some. If you live in Seattle and know you’ll take public transportation often, then I’d encourage you to buy an ORCA card. It allows you to load up money so you can enter any public transportation. If you’re just visiting I recommend buying individual tickets. Most public transit has a ticket kiosk where you can buy individual tickets.

Glad you liked it!

Great question! I can go through the list of my favorite stores and what I use them for. Safeway and Target: great for dairy products and general items (cooking ware, household items, napkins, etc.). They’re everywhere throughout the area which is nice. Amazon Fresh Stores: my go to place for produce. In many cases, I’ve found the fruit and vegetables here to be cheaper than most places. Stuff like eggs and dairy are more expensive here though. There are two in Seattle and one in Factoria. I actually like the Factoria one best. Whole Foods: it’s more expensive than Amazon Fresh, but if you want more options for organic food, this is the best place. Trader Joe’s is also popular, but I don’t usually shop there. I mostly go there to buy snacks (by snacks I mean the 1 lb. chocolate bar they sell) I do recommend joining the loyalty programs for each and downloading the apps for each location. It helps get more discounts. In my opinion, the target app has the best loyalty program. I know that’s a lot of info, but I hope it helps 😁

Lived in Seattle for 20 years. Metropolitan Market is my favorite. It could be considered a bougie grocery store but I will pay for better tasting produce and meat.

@@ramses8847 you’re actually the 2nd person to mention metropolitan market. I’ll definitely have to check it out

QFV！My favorite grocery store in Seattle.

@@SuperRabbitPrincess haha when I first saw it I didn’t know it was a grocery store. It’s actually pretty convenient to shop at because they’re all over

Thank you! Also thank you for the video ideas haha. I definitely want to do a thrift haul video (Seattle has a lot of good thrift stores) and food videos would be great as well 😊

@@Chris_jae GREAT!!! I was hoping you would say that!!!

Because we're an international port city, you can find just about any type of food you want, definitely vegetarian & vegan friendly.

@@ChrisJohnsonCJs-Kitchen Seattle is a great place for vegan foods! All the food options make it easy ☺️

Yes! I love that idea! There are a lot of districts so it’ll take me some time, but I’ll definitely do it 😊

@@Chris_jae maybe name the ten most popular or your top ten fav districts and why you like them to make it less overwhelming.

@@TWSJuliarose I can do that! No promises but I’ll try to get that video made sometime before Christmas haha

Thank you!!!

It was generally accurate. Although it doesn't distinguish between low income housing and regular apartments. For example, there was a 900 square foot apartment in downtown for 1700. I asked about it cause I thought it was a great deal, but as it turned out, it was only for people who qualify as low income. Otherwise, it is accurate, but it is definitely worth checking in with the apartment complex itself to see the price and see if they have any discounts (sometimes they reduce rent if you plan to stay for 12+ months)

@@Chris_jae thank you!

I first tried using Craigslist, but got a little overwhelmed with all the places I bookmarked lol. But I like how it allows people to show actual picture of the places.

Thanks! And yeah haha. I learned that about 1 month after posting so too late for me 😂. Although I’m definitely going to have to go back to all my videos to see which ones I messed up and make sure the next one doesn’t have that issue

I use my iPhone and a GoPro (so not the best). I was planning on buying a camera, but don’t know where to begin just yet. Do you have any recommendations by any chance?

Thank you! And I appreciate the feedback. I’m going to try to add better background music in the future. It would definitely make the videos better

The homeless problem has gotten bad in recent years. Apparently it has the 3rd largest homeless population, but Seattle isn’t in the top 10 most populated cities in the USA. It’s a shame

Personally I would avaoid Rainier Beach and South Park. Also, Pioneer Square, but it's not so much that it's dangereous, its just that there are a lot of homeless there. I think it's a pretty area but I know sometimes it can come as a shock to tourists.

Yeah, pretty much every major city. Wish cities would make the homeless problem more of a priority, but there's probably no simple answer that won't increase taxes

Hahaha oh nooo! There are some towns in the area that I will never know how to pronounce lol 😂

Haha thanks for the correction. I'm writing that down!

Hahaha! I didn’t realize that! Thanks for letting me know! I though I was saying it wrong but didn’t know how to say it

@@Chris_jae And Tukwila is one of the easier ones. There’s also places like Puyallup, Steilacoom, Wahkiakus, and Sequim. Good luck with those. 👍😁👍

@@drewconway7135 I didn’t even know how to pronounce those in my head haha 😂. I once had to use Mukilteo in a sentence and just ended up saying the place by everet haha

That’s exciting! It is very beautiful here. There’s something for everybody. And I will say that I came from Chicago and the demographics of Seattle are a lot different than back east. On the bright side, Seattle has a lot of transplants from across the country and internationally so most people understand what it’s like to be new.

@@Chris_jae Thanks for the update im 44 years old and i need to make my move before its too late.

@@SavageScientist never too late to check out a new area! I really enjoy it out here, just watch out for the gloomy weather in winter (not that bad in my opinion just got to take vitamin D)

Where do you live now?

@@graham974 Tacoma. But just like another fav town of mine, Bellingham, they will soon go the way of Seattle. Luxuriation is despoiling anything that has any soul.

Do you think it's because of the exodus of people from California or a bunch of housing being converted to AirBnbs? I'm actually origionally from Chicago so the AirBnb issue is one issue that we've been having

​@@Chris_jae It really began in April of '84 when the Final Four was held in Seattle. The weather was absolutely gorgeous & the coverage of the city was glowing. People thought all it did was rain here. Between '83 & '05 there were only two years that weren't considered drought years. The exodus from California (& a few other locations) started slowly. Up until '88 it was manageable. In '89 all hell broke loose due to the cost of living in Calif & homes which they sold for hundreds of thousands & with those funds purchased homes all over the Puget Sound area for pennies on (their) dollar. This drove prices up until by 2000 it was very, very difficult for the average local to afford much of anything. Now it's similar to San Francisco. Air B&B had nothing to do with it. It is supply & demand. I envy all these techies makin $70+k a year, but in reality it's no different than making $12 an hour in '84 as everything has skyrocketed in price. You may be making $70+k but your apartment costs 3000-4000 or more a month (for a decent one in the city), your house cost far, far more than it was worth & your mortgage is sky high, so you're really still in the same boat I was when things were far less expensive & so was pay. Worst traffic in the country, a city council that refuses to do what's necessary & of course you saw all the b.s. last year with CHOP & defund the police. Pathetic. Homeless are everywhere, even on school grounds & no one will do anything about it. The town is also meaner, more crime-ridden, overcrowded & ugly than it was just 5-7 years ago. You get the picture. I just never expected it to turn into this, but it has anywhere tech moves in. Fortunately, most of them are Dem's. Tacoma is like old Seattle in a number of ways, but it will change.

@@klep2859 You refer to 'Old Seattle' as a revision. Seattle was full of drunk Indians from Pioneer Square to Seattle Center and there were junkies Pike Place Donut Shop and Aurora had dead junkies found frequently. The restaurants were shit. Seattle neighborhoods are still bland and boring. Seattle still sucks and is hooked on Led Zeppelin reruns and ranch dressing. The only people that think Seattle is like San Francisco are ignorant fools in WA. No one in Bay Area thinks Seattle is like San Francisco.