我在西雅圖當房奴（4）

(七) 尾記花絮-- 畫蛇添足篇

其實房奴還是有很多房奴的快樂的。

不要說隔三差五上http://www.zillow.com查查自己的房子升值了多少，到http://www.windermere.com/看看最近上市房子的價格漲了多少，享受一些鏡中月，水中花的快樂（很抱歉正在看房的朋友們，我知道這種快樂正是建立在你們的痛苦之上的），還有下列很實惠的好處喲。 

我和老公再也不用擔心父母夜裏起來給兒子喂奶時被吵醒了，下班回來還可以在書房裏專心加班不被打擾，父母晚上可以安心看電視，四歲的女兒也非常喜歡自己獨立的小天地，（以前每次帶她看房時她總是說"我喜歡這個房子，咱們不要回西雅圖那個家吧“。在她眼裏，我們租住的房子就是西雅圖那個家），而且開始邀請小夥伴來玩了。我爸爸的愛好和特長又得以發揮，他在後院裏種了好多花：夏天的四季海棠，繡球，馬連正是開花的季節，好漂亮！鄰居的孩子們也非常喜歡在我們院裏的playground蕩秋千，滑滑梯。我老公的爸爸來以後，又種了好多的菜。昨天晚上我們吃的菠菜就是自家產的呢。周末我也會在院子裏收拾收拾草坪，鋤鋤草什麽的。什麽煩惱都會丟在腦後，真是放鬆的好辦法。 

仔細想來，還是很感激我們的經紀人，沒有他，或許我們還沒“搶”到房，仍然在租來的兩室一廳的房子裏“忘房興歎”呢。我可不想背上“吃水忘掉挖井人”的罵名！

[還好嗎]

I never went to SF but based on information I know, bellevue is still much cheaper than SF. Furthermore, both my husband and I need to look for jobs if we move to SF.
We bought a house in Sammamish and it is close to our office. I never did research on Tacoma and Olympia. So sorry that I can;t answer this quesition

[MONKEY_MAGIC]

your article is very interesting, I just want to comment something, if Bellevue is so expensive, the price is comparable as San Francisco Bay, why don't you move over there, I am sure Silicon Valley is a much nicer place to live than Seattle. There are plenty of job opportunity for experienced people down there. Also, why don't people want to move to Tacoma area? What do you think Tacoma, Olympia area? What do you think the potential there?