I'll Meet You at the Gum Wall

Speaker 1: [0:09] All right, welcome to another Awesome in Seattle podcast where we talk about things that are awesome in Seattle Charlotte Tell me something awesome about Seattle.

Speaker 2: [0:20] Um, okay. So I was thinking about all the time that I've spent here and growing up here, and I realized I don't think I've ever been to the Seattle Gum Wall. Hmm. So I went down there yesterday and, uh, just took a look around. I have to see what all the hype is about, and it's pretty crazy. Um-

Speaker 1: [0:37] It is insane, I will agree.

Speaker 2: [0:39] It's like the weirdest tourist attraction I've ever heard of. Yeah. Are you kidding me? Like a gum of wall. A wall of gum. A

Speaker 1: [0:44] gum of wall. Now, that would be fun. A

Speaker 2: [0:46] wall of gum.

Speaker 1: [0:47] I was just chewing this wall earlier today and…

Speaker 2: [0:50] Um, so it kind of intrigued me to do some research and find out kind of about the history of why people started sticking gum on this infamous wall.

Speaker 1: [1:01] Random wall in an alley- Yeah … by Pike Place Market.

Speaker 2: [1:03] Yeah. So, um, there used to be a theater there, the Market Theater, and right where that wall is was where everybody lined up to wait for the shows. So, you know, the old patrons waiting in line, they just started this tradition of sticking their gum on the wall- Hmm … just out of sheer boredom, for no other reason than being bored. So, um- Instead

Speaker 1: [1:24] of under the table or under their seat.

Speaker 2: [1:26] Yeah, just, you know, outside on the wall. Hmm. So the theater made a pretty conscious effort at first to clean it off, but it just became so popular that they were like, "We can't, you know, deal with this cleaning anymore." So- … that was about 20 years ago, um- Wow … that that started. Actually a little bit, no, longer, 1993 was when that first started, um, so that's pretty crazy. And they kinda left it going for, like 22 years, and then they finally cleaned it in 2015.

Speaker 1: [1:56] Um- I remember when they did, and that was kind of

Speaker 2: [1:57] a big deal.

Speaker 1: [1:58] Yeah.

Speaker 2: [1:58] And everybody was really, like, up in arms about it. They're like, "What

Speaker 1: [2:00] the…?"

Speaker 2: [2:01] Yeah. So it took them a total of 130 hours to clean the whole thing.

Speaker 1: [2:06] Jeez.

Speaker 2: [2:06] They steam cleaned it, um, and there was estimated to be 150 pieces of gum per brick on the wall. Oh, my God. And just for a perspective, the wall is 15 feet tall and 50 feet long.

Speaker 3: [2:17] Probably smelled terrible.

Speaker 2: [2:18] So- Yeah, I'd imagine that it probably didn't smell too good. I

Speaker 1: [2:21] saw a YouTube video of someone licking that wall once. Ew. Like licking, like a three or four foot section of the wall, just like, "Ugh." It was disgusting.

Speaker 2: [2:30] Oh, my God.

Speaker 1: [2:30] Yeah.

Speaker 2: [2:31] I would die.

Speaker 1: [2:32] Which is probably what prompted the steam cleaning of the gum wall.

Speaker 2: [2:34] Probably. They're, yeah, maybe trying to protect the people

Speaker 1: [2:38] from- The idiots.

Speaker 2: [2:40] Yeah. But then again, maybe they deserve to die. What is it? Survival of the fittest or something. Exactly. Yep. Um, yeah. So I guess, like, a last kind of cool fact, um, it was named the second germiest tourist attraction by Tripadvisor in 2009, and that came in second to the Blarney Stone in Ireland. So. Yeah, I've heard- Thought that was pretty cool … Speaker 3: heard some interesting stories about the Blarney Stone. Really?

Speaker 1: [3:07] Um. Interesting.

Speaker 2: [3:08] Yeah.

Speaker 1: [3:09] Well, interesting. Well,

Speaker 2: [3:11] that's cool. I know. I was… It was cool to go down there and

Speaker 1: [3:12] see it in person. Have, Anthony, have you ever been down there? Have you seen it, the Gum Wall?

Speaker 3: [3:16] I haven't, no. I've never … I mean, I've been in the area, but I haven't really, like, gone to get a

Speaker 1: [3:22] close look at the- Yeah, it's on, like, the south end of Pike Place.

Speaker 3: [3:26] Yeah.

Speaker 1: [3:26] Like, there's a little alley that goes down to the left. Underneath. Yeah.

Speaker 3: [3:29] Yeah. Yeah, I've been down to, like, The Pink Door

Speaker 1: [3:31] and- Mm-hmm … and that area a little bit south. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. I actually went to that theater once and stuck my gum on the wall, of course. Um-

Speaker 4: [3:40] It's fa- uh, they removed it, but-

Speaker 1: [3:42] As you

Speaker 4: [3:42] do. Yeah Really? They might have removed it all in 2015, but it, uh,

Speaker 1: [3:45] is now

Speaker 4: [3:45] filled. It's- It's

Speaker 2: [3:46] quickly-

Speaker 1: [3:46] Yeah … quickly

Speaker 2: [3:47] filled up again, yeah.

Speaker 1: [3:48] Yeah. Well, if you're listening and you haven't been down there, you should totally go, and then leave us a comment and tell us that you went and stuck your gum.

Speaker 4: [3:56] And at the same time, go walk a little west and go see the viaduct removal, because- Mm-hmm … it

Speaker 1: [4:01] is- It's pretty entertaining … Speaker 4: interesting, yeah. Something you won't see very much. I was actually … Last week, um, I was filming the episode of the American Dream TV show, and we got to take a helicopter up. We were in the air for two hours, and for, like, 10 minutes we were just kind of buzzing around downtown and looking at the viaduct removal from the air, and it was really fricking cool. Like, just seeing all that. I'm sure. It was crazy.

Speaker 2: [4:28] Yeah, I mean, I've driven down there, like, by the stadiums kind of, and just seeing them taking the sections out- Mm-hmm … while I'm driving along is just … It's weird to think about, because that's just all I know of-

Speaker 1: [4:37] Yeah … Speaker 2: down there. Exactly. And now that it's being taken out, it's pretty crazy. Driven on that so many times. I know. And now it's just getting chunked away.

Speaker 2: [4:44] Yeah.

Speaker 1: [4:45] Yep. All right. Uh, Jason, since we are real estate agents, why don't you give us a quick real estate market update?

Speaker 4: [4:52] Yeah. So, uh, we all know that Seattle was and still is very crazy and competitive. Mm-hmm. But, uh, last May, June of 2018, that is, things kind of It's as if it coughed a little bit. The market coughed, and it's kind of softened since then. We hit a … The max median sales price in Seattle, the max ever, was at $750,000 last May, and currently we are at about 688,000. So it's been quite a, a decline. Y- year over year for, compared to last March, um, just to put this into a little bit more perspective, was 712,000. So that's really where we're comparing. 712,000 versus 688,000. So, um- So 688 is this year? Is current, yeah, for March 2018, uh, 2019. So it's definitely softened a little bit in terms of median sales price. The central Seattle area and North Seattle is pretty much consistent. Prices have remained consistent for a couple months. East Side has increased- Meaning they haven't gone up or down. Or down, correct. It's been just pretty level. East Side has, uh, increased ever so slightly, but we've seen the biggest change in South Seattle, where, uh, prices have increased the most. Um, something like, uh- Three to 5%. So it's been pretty dramatic- Mm um, in those areas y- uh, month over month. Uh, the last thing really quick that I like to discuss is months of sup- months of supply and median days on market, because it really gives you an idea of the dynamics at play that are, you know, you as a buyer, if you're entering this market and selling, what to expect in terms of how fast things are going, um, how much inventory there is. So median days on market, we saw a huge increase over 2018 as the market softened ever so slightly. It was seven days on market. That was the median pretty consistently for several years- Mm-hmm … up until last, um, June, July, when the market kind of coughed, like I said. And then it shot up each month, and we're currently at, um Or we hit a max at 35 in January, and it's gone down since then, which is an annual cycle. Um, but it's gone down only to, um, something like 11 days. So things are very compelling or competitive still in Seattle. Mm-hmm. Houses aren't sitting very long still. Or it's currently at 13, let me get that right. I'm sorry. Um, so you list a house, you expect it to sell within two weeks. That's- Yeah … as a national average, that's very competitive. Yeah. Things still very fast moving in Seattle. And then the last thing, months of supply. So this basically tells you if starting today, no new houses, if no new houses were added to the market, how long would the inventory that we have currently for sale sustain the market? Um, you would hope in a national average, like looking at all areas of the country, you'd hope for four to six months. Um, and that's kind of the stalwart, that kind of-

Speaker 1: [7:56] That's the average … Speaker 4: yeah, the average, and it ki- uh- Not a buyer market, not a seller

Speaker 4: [8:00] market. Correct. It's neutral. Yeah. In Seattle, we haven't been in that- We haven't seen that in a long time we haven't be- been a neutral market for almost a decade. Um, currently we have two months of supply in Seattle. Mm. Which is actually very high. Last March, so year over year- Little higher in

Speaker 1: [8:17] comparison, yes.

Speaker 4: [8:18] So last March, in 2018, we had .9 months, so just under one month. So a- as a buyer, you're seeing a lot more, um, options, and things are, quite frankly, sitting for, for longer. Um, it's taking longer for houses to sell. So it's very nice for buyers. They can breathe a little bit. Mm-hmm. They can make more- You have to

Speaker 2: [8:41] sell your soul to get the only

Speaker 4: [8:42] house available. Sell your soul. You can, you can make more cognizant decisions, um-

Speaker 1: [8:47] Yeah, and we're not seeing, you know, 10 or 12 offers on every listing. If it is competitive, we're seeing, you know, maybe two to five, three to five offers.

Speaker 4: [8:57] Yeah.

Speaker 1: [8:58] Um, still going over the asking price, but not 150,000. Not even always 100,000. Um, sometimes 30, 40, 50 grand over, uh, which is still, I mean, clearly kind of crazy. But in comparison to last year, that was, that was the norm. Like, you almost assumed everything would go for 100,000 over. Yeah. You kind of had to go into it assuming that, and if it didn't, you were like, "Wow, I got a deal."

Speaker 4: [9:25] All that being said though, I think we can all agree, uh, being agents and kind of seeing this evolve, the last month or so things have definitely kicked, uh, kicked back into high gear. Um, we're seeing a lot more buyers out there, a lot more interest on properties, almost, um, throughout the entire city, and, uh, it's pretty consistent. So it's heated up. It- it'll be interesting to see how this evolves as the summer months, uh, come, uh, as we, uh, uh, because that's historically when the market's the hottest. Yeah. There's the most amount of buyers. There's also the most amount of listings, so- Yeah … it'll be interesting to see.

Speaker 1: [10:01] It will be. Well, thank you for that Seattle area real estate market update, Jason. Uh, Anthony, you have an awesome Instagram account called Awesome in Bothell.

Speaker 3: [10:13] I do, yeah.

Speaker 1: [10:14] Tell us, uh- Yeah educate people about Bothell and why it's so cool. Tell us a l- some, some info about it so that people that don't know too much about it, uh, can learn something.

Speaker 3: [10:23] Sure. Um, yeah, so Bothell is a, it's a pretty cool little town. Um, I feel like most people have probably heard of it or seen a sign with the name on it, but maybe haven't been there. Um- Do you think

Speaker 1: [10:36] it's called Bot-hell?

Speaker 3: [10:37] Maybe, yeah.

Speaker 1: [10:41] Yeah, exactly.

Speaker 3: [10:42] For the paranoid people- Mm-hmm … who are scared of, uh, the robot revolution. Um, but anyways, yeah, I mean, so Bothell, just a kind of a brief history on, on the area, it started, started out like a lot of places, um, around Western Washington, in that it was a, uh, a logging camp.

Speaker 1: [11:03] Mm-hmm.

Speaker 3: [11:03] Um, just on that north side of the Sammamish River, which most people know as the Slough now- Yeah … who live in Bothell. Um, but yeah, it's still, uh, that still extends from Lake Sammamish all the way up through to Lake Washington. Um, and that was a, a route for not only logging, but also eventually became, um- a route for commuters. There were people that were taking boats. It's kinda crazy to think about, you know, logging and commuting from- Commuting on a river … yeah, from Lake Sammamish- From Lake Sammamish … up to Bothell- Wow … 'cause it's a pretty, pretty long distance there. Um-

Speaker 1: [11:42] It'd probably be- Yeah … faster than driving sometimes right now.

Speaker 3: [11:44] Yeah.

Speaker 1: [11:45] Maybe we should kick that back in gear.

Speaker 3: [11:47] Yeah.

Speaker 1: [11:49] But- Get a speed ferry, per- passenger only ferry.

Speaker 3: [11:51] Yeah, that'd be kinda cool.

Speaker 1: [11:53] Sli's a little low though, so- … it may not work very well.

Speaker 3: [11:55] Um, yeah, yeah. But, uh, yeah, I mean, that's really what started, um, what started the downtown Bothell area was on that, just on that north side of the, uh, uh, Lake Sammamish River.

Speaker 1: [12:09] Mm-hmm.

Speaker 3: [12:09] Um-

Speaker 1: [12:10] And that, so to give people perspective on where Bothell is if you don't know, imagine Lake Washington. Uh, Bothell is at the very northeast corner- Tip, yeah … tip of Lake Washington, next to Kenmore-

Speaker 3: [12:24] Yep … Speaker: north of Kirkland, Juanita, um- Woodinville … Speaker: Woodinville, yeah. Yeah. Yep.

Speaker 1: [12:30] Yeah. And it's kinda, it's in between… Is it on both sides of 405?

Speaker 3: [12:36] Uh, yeah, it does. It is. Yeah.

Speaker 1: [12:38] Yeah. It's on both sides of 405, so.

Speaker 3: [12:40] Yep. Um- So, uh, Bothell, we actually just, uh, I realized that we just passed the anniversary of the incorporation of Bothell. It was on April 14th.

Speaker 1: [12:53] Oh, wow.

Speaker 3: [12:54] Yeah. So I s- I had seen that, and I was like, "Oh, well, we just passed that."

Speaker 1: [12:58] Mm-hmm.

Speaker 3: [12:58] No one told me. I would've, uh, gone on Facebook and wished them a happy birthday, but… That's

Speaker 1: [13:03] how many years?

Speaker 3: [13:04] Yeah. Uh, 1909.

Speaker 1: [13:07] Oh,

Speaker 3: [13:07] wow. So-

Speaker 1: [13:07] So 110 years.

Speaker 3: [13:09] Yeah. Dang. 110-year anniversary. Um- It's like as old as

Speaker 1: [13:13] Jason. That's crazy.

Speaker 3: [13:14] Mm-hmm. Um, so Bothell really started becoming, uh, a city after World War II, like a lot of places. Yep. You know, peop- A lot of the Puget

Speaker 1: [13:26] Sound was like

Speaker 3: [13:27] that. It was a great place for people to live and commute to work in Seattle. Um, you know, the, the access to, uh, to Seattle from Bothell still is really convenient.

Speaker 4: [13:39] Mm-hmm.

Speaker 3: [13:40] Um, you're n- you're not that far away, so that really, um, that really increased the population. Between 1950 and 2006, uh, it went from 1,000 person population to 30,000- Jeez … population, so it was a big increase.

Speaker 1: [13:56] Yeah.

Speaker 3: [13:57] Um, some of that growth too, though, came, uh, from jobs in the Canyon Park area, which is kind of that towards the north end of Bothell.

Speaker 1: [14:09] Mm-hmm.

Speaker 3: [14:09] Um, those jobs were i- well, Canyon Park kind of became a hub for biotech as well as software engineering.

Speaker 1: [14:17] Yeah.

Speaker 3: [14:18] Um, w- ' Speaker: Cause that used to be where the Seattle Times plant was as well. Seattle Times plant was in, um, more of the North Creek area, so that's o- kind of more on the Woodinville side- Oh,

Speaker 1: [14:30] okay … Speaker 3: um, of Bothell. But yeah, that was there as well. Mm-hmm.

Speaker 3: [14:33] Um, and so, I mean, that along with the UDub opening a campus- Yeah um, in near downtown brought a lot of, a lot of people to the area. Um, in 2010, Bothell s- uh, had started their revitalization project-

Speaker 1: [14:51] Mm-hmm … Speaker 3: uh, just to kinda upgrade the downtown area, um, as well as the section in downtown that runs along Bothell Over highway, just needed to kinda give it a facelift. Yeah.

Speaker 3: [15:03] Um-

Speaker 1: [15:03] It's pretty amazing. If you haven't been up there in a while, it's-

Speaker 3: [15:07] Yeah … Speaker: it's kinda crazy- It's really nice,

Speaker 1: [15:09] yeah … what they've done. They've done a great job.

Speaker 3: [15:10] Yep.

Speaker 1: [15:11] They changed zoning. They, uh, really changed the landscape. They changed where the road went. Um-

Speaker 3: [15:18] Mm-hmm … Speaker: they, yeah. Yeah, where Bothell Over Highway- Mm-hmm and, and Main Street meet and, uh, and where 522 meets- Yeah … as well, so. Um, what was crazy about that project though is that in the middle of it, there was a gigantic fire that sort of- Yeah … halted it. Yeah. Um, and that fire, it caused about $25 million in damage. Jeez. Uh, it destroyed the historic Bothell Mall.

Speaker 1: [15:48] Hmm.

Speaker 3: [15:48] Um, and also dis- displaced 25 local businesses.

Speaker 1: [15:53] Wow.

Speaker 3: [15:53] Uh, so yeah, it was a hu- it was just, like, a devastating blow right in the middle of that, uh, that project. And I remember, um, waking up, um- That morning, I, I live in Bothell. I still live in Bothell. I had li- lived in Bothell at the time. Um, I remember waking up that morning and looking outside and thinking that, you know, there was just morning fog, um, and going outside and, you know, we're kinda used to that-

Speaker 1: [16:19] Mm-hmm

Speaker 3: [16:19] uh, summer campfire smell now with all the forest fire- Forest fires, yeah … smoke we're getting. But this was kind of on another level, um, 'cause it, yeah, the fire was just huge- Yeah … and dumping a bunch of smoke all over the city. Yep. Um-

Speaker 1: [16:33] That was crazy.

Speaker 3: [16:34] Yeah.

Speaker 2: [16:34] When did you say that

Speaker 1: [16:35] was? 2015.

Speaker 3: [16:36] 2016. '16. Yeah, 2016.

Speaker 2: [16:39] Oh, I didn't know that. Yeah.

Speaker 3: [16:39] Um, yeah, it was a giant… So, uh, the Mercantile building on Main Street, um, it was this old building that they were renovating into a giant new apartment building, and that's where the fire started. Um, still not known, or the cause is not known. Mm. Um, but it was kinda interesting talking to a firefighter. Uh, you know, I had gone down there after things had kinda settled down, and, uh, was talking to a, a firefighter down there and, um, some other people that had gathered around. And I had heard that, um, and obviously this was just, uh- Kind of hearsay … sort of a word of mouth. Yeah. Yeah, hearsay sort of thing. But, um, the, uh, site had just gotten in a huge shipment of, uh, plywood that they were about to put up. So there was all this, like, brand-new- Mm-hmm … completely dry plywood at the site that whatever started this fire just escalated it that much more.

Speaker 1: [17:40] Wow.

Speaker 3: [17:40] Um, yeah, it was, it was pretty unfortunate. Luckily, um, they were able to get a grant, um, from the state to, to get it back on track, and now it's, it's basically completed. Um- Mm … it looks great. I mean, Main Street is… There's a bunch of new, really nice, new businesses down there. Um, it really did a good job of opening up the, the space for retail so that, um, it's more friendly for, for people to go down there, walk around- Mm-hmm … see the businesses. Um, and it just, it looks a lot better. It's more- Yeah … more modern and-

Speaker 1: [18:13] Yeah … Speaker 3: they did a good job with it. It does look nice.

Speaker 3: [18:15] Um, yeah. What are

Speaker 1: [18:17] some of the other… So I know McMenamins-

Speaker 3: [18:19] Yeah … Speaker: they opened, they took over the Anderson School- Mm-hmm … Speaker: which, was that a elementary school? It- Or

Speaker 1: [18:26] high school, or what was

Speaker 3: [18:27] it? So, like, a long time ago, uh, a really long time ago, I think it might have been the high school.

Speaker 1: [18:35] Oh, that would make

Speaker 3: [18:35] sense- Um, but- … since the

Speaker 1: [18:36] high school's behind it kinda.

Speaker 3: [18:37] Right. Yeah. Yeah. It's kind of back up, up the hill from, from where that is now. But, um, I th- more recently, uh, it was, it still was a school, but they, they ran some different things out of there. I think part of it was administration. Um, and then part of it was, uh, sort of like a secondary education, um- building where they, they had other secondary- Mm-hmm … forms of education going on in there. So, um, yeah, I'm not ex- I'm not sure recently, more recently what exactly they were, they were doing out of there. Yeah.

Speaker 1: [19:14] But- But originally … Speaker 3: it still was education- Yeah

Speaker 3: [19:16] based.

Speaker 1: [19:17] Yeah. Um- That's

Speaker 3: [19:17] a

Speaker 1: [19:18] cool building

Speaker 3: [19:18] too. It is a cool building. Yeah, McMenamins is a cool spot.

Speaker 1: [19:21] Yeah, if you haven't checked that out, and if you don't know what McMenamins is, you should probably go check it out.

Speaker 3: [19:26] Yep.

Speaker 1: [19:26] Um- I love

Speaker 2: [19:27] McMenamins.

Speaker 1: [19:27] I know. They're whole- McMenamin- The whole

Speaker 2: [19:29] vibe and-

Speaker 1: [19:29] Exactly.

Speaker 2: [19:30] Have that really nice- Mm-hmm fireplace in there. Mm-hmm. So I like to go there in the wintertime and- The winter time,

Speaker 1: [19:33] yeah If you haven't been down to Portland too- Yeah … they have a bunch of them down there. Actually, on my wedding day, went to, they have a McMenamins Edgefield- Mm … which is in Portland, kinda on the edge. And, uh, they have a- Of the field little pitch and putt. Yeah, the edge of the field. They have a little pitch and putt golf course down there, and like at almost every hole they have a little bar, and they have concerts down there, and-

Speaker 3: [19:56] Nice … Speaker: they just do such a cool- Yeah … it's so unique- Yep … Speaker: where they change the hotel or they, they change the school into hotel rooms and, um, it's just cool. Yeah. Yeah, it's a, it's a really nice place. They did a really nice job with it. Do

Speaker 1: [20:12] they have a, a pool there too?

Speaker 3: [20:14] They do, yeah. Like, in the mirrors? The pool was actually always there. Um, it used to be the North Shore, um, Community Pool.

Speaker 1: [20:20] Huh.

Speaker 3: [20:20] Um, and they just added it on, so.

Speaker 1: [20:22] Oh.

Speaker 3: [20:23] Yeah. Is

Speaker 1: [20:23] that, is that a saltwater pool?

Speaker 3: [20:25] Uh, I, it might be now. It didn't used to be. Yeah. But they may have changed it. I'm not sure. I wanna say that

Speaker 1: [20:31] it is.

Speaker 3: [20:31] Yeah, that's possible.

Speaker 1: [20:32] Yeah.

Speaker 3: [20:34] Might have added a little salt to it. Um- Some, or one other unique thing about Bothell, too, that I didn't mention is just that, uh, it has sort of a unique geographical situation where it straddles two counties.

Speaker 1: [20:47] Yeah.

Speaker 3: [20:47] Um-

Speaker 1: [20:49] That's feels

Speaker 3: [20:49] crazy. Yeah, so King and Snohomish. You don't see that a lot.

Speaker 1: [20:53] No.

Speaker 3: [20:53] Um, but it basically just separates Bothell, um, pretty, pretty evenly into a north and south section, or a- Hmm … King and Snohomish section. So.

Speaker 1: [21:03] How does that affect people that live there?

Speaker 3: [21:06] Um, I mean, it doesn't affect people too much, just besides, um, you know, taxes being a little bit less in Snohomish County versus, versus King County. Mm-hmm. So, um, obviously that could be a, a plus. Mm-hmm. You know, however you look at it.

Speaker 4: [21:25] Mm-hmm.

Speaker 3: [21:26] Um-

Speaker 4: [21:26] I know it can be a little weird because some str- a lot of the streets that cross the, the boundary- The county

Speaker 3: [21:33] line Yep … Speaker 4: they change names. Yep. They- They'll change names or numbers, yeah. That's funky. Um, yeah. Yeah, it is. Uh, uh, so the street that runs, um, from downtown up to Canyon Park, one of the streets, uh, 104th, is one that I always think of doing that. Once you get up almost to, um, almost to Canyon Park Middle School, um, it'll change from 104th to, like, 23rd or something. Yeah, just like, uh, halfway down the street. Makes total sense. Yeah, it totally does. Yeah. Yeah, so. Um- I mean, that's what I would change

Speaker 1: [22:07] it to- Exactly, right? … if I

Speaker 3: [22:09] was gonna change it. Yeah. I had a buddy who actually lived right on, he, the, his backyard was, like, the county line, so his property was backed right up against the, the… He was in the King County side, and behind his house was the Snohomish County side, so. Hmm. Yeah, it was kind of a unique thing. So

Speaker 1: [22:24] does that affect schools at all, or is it all just-

Speaker 3: [22:26] It doesn't, no.

Speaker 1: [22:27] Okay.

Speaker 3: [22:27] Yeah. ' Speaker: Cause I know that's something that people would probably ask or wonder about, like, does that somehow affect schools? Mm-hmm. But it's all North Shore schools. Yep, yep.

Speaker 1: [22:36] Well, cool. Yeah. Well, thanks for getting us up to speed. And if you're interested in kinda following along with what's going on in Bothell, Anthony has an awesome, uh, Instagram page, uh, Awesome in Bothell.

Speaker 3: [22:50] Yep.

Speaker 1: [22:51] And you can follow him. Um, he posts cool stats about the market. Um-

Speaker 3: [22:58] Listings in the area … yeah,

Speaker 1: [22:59] listings that are cool. Um, his kinda go-to places. I know you posted one of your favorite kinda… Was it a pub?

Speaker 3: [23:07] It's, uh, it's just, like, a beer, um, beer shop, I guess. I wouldn't really call it a pub. But, uh, it does, it just serves, uh, craft beer.

Speaker 1: [23:16] Oh, nice.

Speaker 3: [23:17] Yeah. It's called the Hop and Hound. Um, really fun place just, just off of Main Street, so.

Speaker 1: [23:22] Mm-hmm.

Speaker 3: [23:23] Yeah. If anyone gets a chance, definitely a place you need to check out.

Speaker 1: [23:27] Yeah. Um, so yeah, that's it. Thank you for listening to Awesome in Seattle. Uh, until next time, we will see you then.

Speaker 3: [23:35] Thanks. Bye.

Speaker 2: [23:36] Bye.