[galleywest200]

Pacific Northwest already has a lot of giants, and no reason to live in Seattle itself. Microsoft, Valve, etc are over in the forested towns like Redmond. Nintendo is over in North Bend.

[pera]

Valve is in Bellevue and Nintendo is next to the Microsoft campus in the outskirts of Redmond. There is nothing in North Bend (except Twin Peaks fans and hikers).

[floren]

There's a Nintendo packaging/distribution center in North Bend. Given that the discussion is about tech jobs, you're still basically correct though.

[206lol]

No reason to live in Seattle itself?! It's the best part of the Seattle area! The Eastside is sterile suburbia.

[teg4n_]

Yeah, you see a ton of people commuting from Seattle where they live because they want to be around culture to the east side to work because they have to