You know that feeling when you’re standing next to someone way better-looking in a photo? That painful comparison you can’t escape? Seattle is living that right now — and Bellevue is the attractive friend.
Even Mayor Katie Wilson sees it. She recently admitted she thinks “it’s a problem when Seattle’s tax environment gets very out of step with our neighboring jurisdictions, including Bellevue.” That’s Seattle’s mayor conceding the point.
These two cities are a stone’s throw apart but worlds apart in how they’re run. The numbers — compiled over 20 years by analyst Viet Q. Nguyen — tell a brutal story…