Seattle

Seattle is the largest city in Washington, although it is not the capital city. Seattle, located in northwestern Washington State right by the Pacific Ocean is a great city for technology, music and business. Bill Gates and Jeff Bezos both live in nearby Medina, Washington. Seattle has an urban population of 725,000 as of 2018, and has surpassed Austin as the largest-growing big city in the U.S..

Seattle is a very liberal city. Bertha Landes was mayor of Seattle from 1926-1928, and was the first female mayor of a large major city in America. Although they have no state-income tax (Washington is the only blue state not to), Seattle has implemented a new head tax on very large companies. Technology is very important in Seattle, being rated the #1 city beyond Silicon Valley for computer science jobs, with Washington itself being rated the #1 state with an average salary in six-figure digits.