GardenGirl

Each neighborhood has its own feel and its own community association which is nice. The parks are nice and the interurban trail development is a a healthy addition, although it would be nice to see the trail lighted during the winter time. My neighbors are friendly and helpful. Based on my experience living in Shoreline, do your research on the community you're looking to buy in. Shoreline has the highest number of adult family homes in King County (no joke, a stat I heard from someone who works for the state). At one point the community paper (which has since shut down) ran a story about the number of unlicensed facilities that were in Shoreline and the added burden they put on the police and fire department. We unfortunately did not know about these issues when we bought our home in a neighborhood with one licensed adult family home and two "Supportive" living environments ( which don't have to carry adult family home licenses even though they're technically run by an agency and have up to four to five people living in each home) within a three block radius of our home. The headaches we've had dealing with these homes is incredible. Police and fire are routine visitors to our neighborhood because of one particular Supportive living home with very bad management.