why move to seattle? an infographic
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Why move to Seatt e?There is a reason Seattle is one of the top 10 fastest growing cities in America. Seattle hosts some of the world’s largest companies - Amazon, Starbucks, & Microsoft, to name a few - and it’s no wonder that others like Facebook, SpaceX, and Google are itching to join them.
Pro-LGBTQ Nerdwallet ranked Seattle 7 out of 10 top LGBT-friendly cities in the United States... and it’s no coincidence.
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9 Seattle hospitals have been recognized by the Human Rights Campaign as leaders in LGBT Healthcare Equality
2007Inaugural year of Seattle PrideFest, the largest free Pride festival in the United States
Dog & Cat FriendlySeattleites are ranked 5th out of 50 cities in pet spend & is the 6th top cat metro in the US
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Dining Out with Dogs:# of Pet Friendly Restaurants Per City
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Cats: The Kings of King CountyIn Seattle, there are more cats than dogs, and there are more dogs than children! Sorry, kids.
Natural Variety Our region offers an unmatched range of nature - oceans, waterfalls, forests, mountains, and beaches.
Each of these scenic beauties are within a 2-hour car ride from Seattle Center
Mount Si
Melakwa Lake
Owen Beach
A+ EntertainmentNot only the birthplace of Grunge music, Seattle is home to a flourising artistic
community and renowned sports empire.
We’re Sports Fanatics!These pro teams call Seattle home:
SeahawksSoundersReignMariners
90 seconds of recorded seismic activity in Seattlewhen Marshawn Lynch made the playoff game-winning touchdown vs
the Saints. Now fondly remembered as “BEASTQUAKE!”
Popular Seattle Museums include:Seattle Art Museum (SAM)Pacific Science CenterEMP Museum
Museums Galore!
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How Many Museums per City?
Our Job Market: Not Just Good, Great!
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$ $ $87,176
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Seattle Average
National Average
Snoqualmie Falls
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Seattle has remained under a 5% unemployment rate since August 2014. The national unemplyoment rate has been at 5% since October 2015.
..But how do we know all of this?We’re in Seattle’s Employment Business!
Here at Parker Staffing Services, we’ve been in the business for 35 years, watching all of the ebbs and flows of Seattle’s job market. In the past few years especially, we’ve seen
tremendous growth in the Puget Sound job market through our own local contractor base.
Parker contractors converted to fulltime employees with
our clients in 2015.
days was the average contract length for our contractors in 2015.
Sourceshttp://www.forbes.com/pictures/emeg45eegeg/5-seattle-wash/https://www.nerdwallet.com/blog/cities/lifestyle/top-lgbt-friendly-cities-2015/http://www.seattlepridefest.org/http://mediakit.seattletimes.com/wp-content/PDF/The_Seattle_Times_-_071512657_HowSeattleSpends.pdf?aliId=4116430Dog park photo by COLA Chair Ellen Escarcega, http://www.seattlecola.orghttp://www.bringfido.com/restaurant/city/seattle_wa_us/http://www.seattle.gov/parks/offleash.aspOwen Beach photo by Pfly, http://flickr.com/photos/pflyMelawka Lake photo by Jacob RhoadesSnoqualmie Falls photo by Krystal GianniSeahawks photo by Philip Robertson, http://flickr.com/photos/philiprobertson http://espn.go.com/nfl/story/_/id/10071653/seattle-seahawks-fans-set-stadium-noise-recordhttp://www.king5.com/story/news/local/2014/07/30/12931934/EMP photo by Visit Seattle, http://visitseattle.orghttp://www.visitjacksonville.com/things-to-do/arts-culture/museums-galleries/http://www.bls.gov/
Seattle’s job market has witnessed huge growth in the past two years, and though you may be wary of cost of living expenses, Seattle’s average income is 30% higher than the national average.
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