About two years ago we visited Seattle for the first time. We had already started talking about wanting to live in another city someday and we thought that we might like to live in either Seattle or Portland. I wrote a few posts about our trip on my old blog. You can click here to read about what we did in Seattle the first time we visited. Anyway, it's kind of interesting that back then we were talking about moving and that I wanted to move to Portland and Lesley wanted to move to Seattle. In this post, I talked about what we were looking for in a city, including the same things we like about Seattle now:

We’d like to live in a large city milder weather than we have in Texas. I’d like to live somewhere where I don’t have to take a car to get everywhere and where I can spend more time outdoors. We thought Seattle and Portland might be two cities that would fit our interests, so we wanted to visit to get a better feel for the cities and evaluate the things that statistics don’t indicate. After visiting, I can say that both Seattle and Portland seem to do a better job of having what we want than do Dallas or Fort Worth.

So far, I don't have any regrets over living here instead of Portland, though I do wonder what it would have been like. It's interesting to look back on our thought processes on moving and the steps we took toward moving here. It's kind of neat that we both kind of knew what we wanted and were able to move here.