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strictlytacos t1_j33dvv7 wrote

I would say Silverdale, Poulsbo, or Gig harbor (Pierce county though). I’ve lived in Bremerton and Port Orchard too, Port orchard has a really popular town talk page where you can see just how crappy some folks are. The schools in Port Orchard are absolute garbage. We came out to gig harbor when we had a kid just for the schools, plus it’s nice. As you go north you have the military base (Poulsbo area) and more diversity with that. Over on this side of the sound is definitely not as liberal and I see a lot of trump crap near me but you’re still in a very liberal area, as is the this side of the state.

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Worried_Coconut_9754 OP t1_j33gm26 wrote

Would you say other areas are a little less “trumpy”? We were looking into Tacoma initially but heard that there’s some safety issues. Seattle is a little too much of a big city (+ out of price range) for our preferences but we’d like to live close enough to commute on occasion.

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AwkwardShape6160 t1_j33kjfk wrote

Kitsap County is filled with Trump folks. As a biracial nonbinary person I made the move to Tacoma because I was tired of the whispers and sometime blatant racism. There are safety issues in Tacoma, as in any city, but it is also a place with so much character and a ton of families and communities. Moving towards Kitsap from King or Pierce County it just gets more conservative. I grew up in Gig Harbor and it is a Christian town, but like pseudo religious where all the teens still drink and have sex but feel comfortable discriminating against marginalized people.

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Worried_Coconut_9754 OP t1_j33xpka wrote

Good to know! Which areas of Tacoma are “safer”? I visited a few years ago but only to see friends that lived there at the time so I wasn’t able to get a good picture of the city aside from a few really cool places we visited

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