The traffic getting in and out of Seattle can take hours daily from your life.
 
	If you can afford to  live close to the salt water, that's your escape. I've lived in the Seattle area and at one point lived a block from the Des Moines boat launch on the south end of Eliot Bay. I was on the bay 5 evenings a week  catching dinner from my 16' runabout. Sol, crab, salmon, squid.....