It rains a lot in Bellingham. Housing is very expensive now.Homeless rates go up every year.

changes including removing downtown parking spaces, making more bike lanes while removing car lanes, allowing more inclusive homeless encampments to line our downtown streets.

come one COME ALL HOMELESS PEOPLE to bellingham! we want more!

Okay, you have redeemed yourself. I saw your negative post first, and it left me rankled. Border traffic affects the freeway somewhat but not Blaine. I'm surprised you failed to mention our new Blaine Art Gallery which showcases Blaine's incredible art community with different artists each month. Also Family Care Network is building a new clinic in Blaine. So there!

You managed to address every negative aspect possible without noting the positives: The unsurpassed beauty, new housing areas, great library, new businesses like our art gallery and bakery, lack of traffic, proximity to Vancouver and Seattle, scenic walking paths. Yes, Blaine is quiet in the best possible way--5 Star Small Town, USA.

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Awesome video man. I always overlooked Blaine in the past 30 years. But recently looking on google earth, I discover that it feels like West Vancouver for 1/10 of the price and is a 30 minute drive from Vancouver.

Love this video! I drive to Bellingham from Vancouver to shop and eat once a month. As much as once a week before the pandemic. I really like Bellingham. It gives small town vibes as if the place is frozen in the 80's and 90's. Guide Meridian Road has virtually been untouched for the past 20-30 years, with the exception of those large roundabouts. I do miss the busy Bellis Fair from the 90's. I remember coming to Bellingham to shop and Bellis Fair was absolutely packed with charming shops. Too bad those are all gone now. I feel that the people here are more friendly than in Vancouver. I hope that Bellingham doesn't see too much modernization and development. I do plan to to Blaine in a few years.

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Avoid at all costs? That's your thumbnail headline? Give me a break. I moved here almost 30 years ago and would never live anywhere else. FWIW, Bellingham was just voted the #1 adventure town in the WORLD by the Matador Network.

Bellingham just lost over a million dollars buying land for a tiny homes village that was illegal to inhabit. So they bought the nearby credit union out who was about to sue them to fix their screw up. Not only that but they're spending another 200,000 bucks replacing 25 tiny homes that are only 4 years old. About a 3 million dollar tab counting the homes, the land and the litigation combined. They just thorw money at everything with their property tax revenue and there's no accountability whatsoever.

Why r u a hater

Blaine is gemmy

I'm considering mving from NYC, now that I work remotely, and am older. Do realtors show people around the various areas, and show options in those places?

"40 years in Bellingham? Wow! Love hearing the real, unfiltered experience. Thanks for sharing the highs and lows-makes me appreciate the town even more! 👏🌲"

I am from Vancouver BC and lately I've been thinking about moving to Blaine for retirement. A house that I have had my eyes on for quite some time is 6023 Birch Point Rd. I can sell my house in Vancouver and liquidate my businesses to buy something like that. The small town feel is exactly what I like about Blaine. The fact that it is only 30 minute drive to Vancouver makes me extremely interested in Blaine. I can spend $8 million in Vancouver and not get much land, let alone a water front property. One day I will look into what it takes to move to the states without being a citizen of the US.

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6:34 I do disagree with the transportation aspect of this. All the major lines that run through WWU run every 15 minutes on weekdays and it is extremely easy to get places

lol from the 36 and no way an average person can afford these homes. Nice try bham.

Your video-making is very good. Your content ideas are perfect.

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I love the rain and its not heavy most of the time light drizzle

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SHHHHHHHSH!! IT RAINS HERE ALL THE TIME. YOU WON'T LIKE IT HERE, BELIEVE ME!!!!!!!!

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Its focused on wealthy retirees, so if ya have mula then i guess its a place to live but lots of homeless too

…. Not to mention that the granary building was broken into , you can tell by the wood panels over the windows and front door.

Thank you for sharing, excellent information to be mindful of.

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Where that star is located in the thumbnail is not where Bellingham is located

Blaine is beautiful!

I can guarantee this. It only rains in Bellingham on your days off work.

I’m completely fine with all of these :)

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Lots of gray days so if you have SAD you will struggle.

Thinking of moving to Bellingham from Phoenix for retirement. Phoenix is becoming unbearably hot! A little worried about the dark days since it almost is never cloudy or rains here. Looks like your state tax is favorable for retirees.

There is always traffic, in fact Seattle is becoming L.A, traffic almost continous 24 hrs'a day.

I was in Bellingham this past week and per your recommendation went to “The Black Cat” and had the Gouda Chicken Pesto (great call). Also visited Anthony’s at Squalicam Harbor - thanks for your continuous videos; great content! Keep’em coming! Homes are definitely more affordable compared to Seattle and especially the east side (Bellevue, Kirkland)… but the Bellingham area has also become less affordable now. I don’t know why the PNW has always been so expensive compared to the Midwest and the South. I was also in Vancouver, B.C. and the cost of living was lower comparatively (Walmart, restaurants, everyday essentials - homes have become more expensive but the government has taken steps to stop foreign sales) even after factoring in for the exchange rate. Anyway, I will be revisiting the Seattle area again in March; will swing by Bellingham again. Last observation… I noticed there were are a lot of senior citizens residing in Bellingham (I saw them on the boulevard boardwalk, at the parks, near chuckanut drive lookout points) not a problem for me, just an observation considering there is a university in Bellingham so I was expecting a younger crowd. Anyway, have a wonderful weekend and my best to you - take care ✌🏼👊🏼

Another problem is you can no longer tub the south fork of the nooksavk river because the natives decided that people floting on tubs kill the fish so if your white no floting the south fork ....but if your native it's all good you can tub the south fork ,ive lived in the area my whole life and the south fork is a good safe place to bring your kids to swim float on a hot afternoon. The city of bellingham sided with the natives so no floating the south fork unless your native. ...the north fork is to cold and swift it's to dangerous for kids and young teenagers

I live in everson about 20 minutes from bellingham. Mostly I like the area but the city counsel sucjs and the department of ecology sucks bad right now thay are suing everyone who has a water well. We think thay are trying to make everyone who uses water from the watershed to pay for water from there own property , it costed me 20,000$ to install my well and get it up and running , so if you move to the area bewere of the A holes that run the city and county. Thay really like your money and thay try at every corner to take it from you

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I used to live in Blaine. I loved it! Great people! Now we live more inland. Still love where we live now. I would never ever move to Bellingham. Most people went fricken nuts during Covid, let’s just say true colors came out.😯

I'm the only artist-blacksmith.

The cost of living started going up the day the Georgia-Pacific pulp-n-papermill closed, since that reduced the air pollutants, risk of chemical disaster and import of known carcinogens on an industrial scale. I moved here to finish high school (BHS, '89) and started working local Labor Union during the oil refinery turnarounds down south, but the city still had intermittent disaster tests that were attuned to possible train wrecks of multiple chlorine tanks, tidal waves hitting the oceanside paper mill (that expanded operations here during '90's because of shutdowns elsewhere) that is still an environmental risk despite closure due to some serious chemical operations happening on "infill", which is created land in the bay that turns to soup during an earthquake or volcanic tremble....certain siren patterns blared at night in public downtown, and thanks to Union employment, I learned that meant being prepared to head safely and carefully upwind w/enough supplies to await further news, and without looking back. Atomic war (50-60's) and chemical attack shelters were a set of archaic tunnels that met up under the high school I attended and I only know of their existence because I was assigned to assist the janitor when I first got in trouble after moving here from a major multicultural metro area (aka Sea-Tac). The end of high school and the start of adult life here also led to acknowledge myself as a cultural and racial minority the jocks and farmboys couldn't intimidate and the cops had no reason to profile, though they did anyway and obviously. The art and music scene enlivened the social scene into an actual community, one that includes WWU, whose graduates often remain in the community while describing plenty of deteriorating factors in those communities they've lived in elsewhere. Western Washington University attracted some intelligentsia that upgraded the collective community mindset just as the terrain and climate had attracted previous generations of flat-plain food growers and processors of oceanic resources (aka farmers and fisherman) w/out totally displacing the local Native/Coast Salish peoples, including Lummi, Nooksack and other canoe-carving Tribal societies, becoming truly familiar and sometimes family to itself. Now I have metal architectural works around downtown, where some friends have opened restaurants and others have played as bandmates and/or DJ's, the creative factor is undeniable among the locals, the social attitude is "laid-back metropolitan escapee", we're about as far North and West as you can get (until you board the Alaska ferry) on foot, there's still plenty of room and lots of work to do while appreciating that independents do well while collaboratives actually succeed and corporations only visit during summer break.

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Thanks for the information! I'm a RN and recently became an NP. Thinking about moving to Bellingham from Indiana in 1-2 years. I love the beauty of the PNW.

He missed the biggest reason for not moving to Bellingham....This is in a Democrat State! Seattle is toast and you will have a lot of the social problems and illegals moving into Washington.....DO NOT INVEST ANY MONEY IN ANY DEMOCRAT STATE! At some point, your home will become unsaleable.....

it's a beautiful small city on the Pacific.