I know your pain very well lol, that’s why I moved from Washington. Seattle is pretty ghetto too, so I didn’t want to live in the city. I wanted more Bellevue/Redmond/Issaquah/North Bend area, but the cheapest places there were like $1200+ and that was considered dirt cheap that went really fast. Now I’m stuck in a shitty red state in a medium-sized town for the time being. I was so optimistic when I was growing up in WA like 15 years ago and wanting to stay there my whole life. Now it’s overcrowded as hell, expensive, and all the other things you mentioned!