Seattle housing market is still crazy. Not a lot for sale. Plus it rains for 6 months and miserable. If you like that then it's great. I love it in Seattle. You don't get as many startups here though. It's just the big companies doing business as usual.
Not as many as San Francisco, but there's a ton of startups here and the city has a solid startup culture: https://www.geekwire.com/startup-list/. Some notible ones include Zillow, Redfin, Rover, and OfferUp. I agree houses are getting to be too expensive for most, but for those in the rental market things are increasing, but the Outlook looks good as soon many units are getting built.
