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I recently moved to the eastside and haven't been experiencing much disdain for being a tech worker. Most of my spare time is spent heading into the cascades to hike the amazing trails, though.

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The eastside is less obsessed with preserving an image of itself as a "gritty" place. Parts of the eastside (I'm looking at you, downtown Bellevue) are sort of obsessed with the opposite — shows of ostentatious wealth.

The Cascades have a lot of great hiking and are reason enough to live on the eastside :). If you don't already, get an "America the Beautiful" pass (http://www.nps.gov/findapark/passes.htm) which will get you into National Forest areas as well as National Parks (Rainier, Olympic National Park). And of course the state Discover pass gets you into a few areas (Tiger Mountain is not super wild, but very close).

Also if you have a 4th grader don't forget about https://www.everykidinapark.gov/

My take on the East Side (coming from a Seattle POV) is the perception is that it's full of well off NIMBYs who work for Microsoft and that the area never had any culture to lose. Amazon's move into the city has changed things that were there for decades. I'm new to Seattle though so technically part of the "problem".

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