What is Bellevue?

[Dr. Smoke]

Originally Posted by MrVandelay

^^^ Sounds like Dr. Smoke feels a bit threatened.

Eh?

I must be grossly 'misunderestimated' or something, because I never, never intended to sound threatened.

I was just saying the truth.

(Hm, now, how can I threaten MrVandelay?)

[urbanlife]

I am gonna take the much, much lighter road for this question.


Bellevue is full of nerds.......what? it is.....and they make way more money than I do.

Bellevue isn't all that bad after you get past that feeling of selling you soul.....you know that same feeling that comes with LA.

[MrVandelay]

Originally Posted by 77e

Downtown Bellevue is not the second largest employment center in the county according to a PSRC report on regional growth centers. (Keep in mind, I am talking about just the CBD employment, not all of Bellevue.)

After downtown Seattle, two other PSRC-defined urban centers had higher employment than downtown Bellevue in 2000: First Hill/Capitol Hill and the University District. [See table 18 in chapter 2.]

In addition, the Duwamish and Paine Field manufacturing/industrial centers had more employees in 2000. [See table 26 in chapter 3.]

Yes if you break apart the cities into sections, CBD, industrial, etc, it might look differently. City of Seattle does contain a heck of ALOT of Jobs! you are definitely right about that. but if you look at it, city by city, the stat I made above about bellevue being the second largest employment center in King County is correct.
Bellevue I think is getting an unfair rap as being just a bedroom suburb.

2005 Employment in Puget Sound Region by city....
(the stats below does not count 'self employed' people)
http://www.psrc.org/data/econ/CityEmp2005.xls click on '2nd tab' at bottom

Seattle: 465,689 jobs
Bellevue: 113,306 jobs
Tacoma: 101,192 jobs
Redmond: 82,073 jobs
Everett: 69,169 jobs
Kent: 60,258 jobs
Renton: 48,304 jobs
Tukwilla: 40,628 jobs