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Kirkland, WA
Kirkland sits on the eastern shore of Lake Washington, and its waterfront downtown, built directly along the lake with public parks and beaches within walking distance of Main Street shops and restaurants, has given it one of the more genuinely walkable and scenic downtown cores of any suburb on Seattle's Eastside. Google has built a substantial engineering campus in Kirkland over the past decade, adding to the broader concentration of major technology company offices across the Eastside suburbs and giving Kirkland its own significant corporate tech presence alongside its historic identity as a lakefront residential and boating community. The city's downtown marina and public docks have made recreational boating a genuine part of local life, and a summer concert series held at one of the downtown waterfront parks draws residents from across the Eastside to Kirkland specifically for its lake access, a feature that distinguishes it from more inland Eastside suburbs like Redmond and Sammamish. Kirkland's combination of a genuinely walkable, lake-facing downtown, a significant and growing Google engineering presence, and an established recreational boating culture has made it one of the more scenic and consistently desirable suburbs anywhere along Lake Washington's eastern shore.
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Redmond, WA
Redmond has been home to Microsoft's global headquarters since the company relocated there from Bellevue in 1986, and the sprawling campus — which has grown to include dozens of buildings across hundreds of acres — has made Redmond one of the most economically significant small cities in the entire Pacific Northwest relative to its modest population of roughly 75,000 residents. Nintendo of America's headquarters is also based in Redmond, giving the city an unusual concentration of two globally significant technology and gaming companies within a few miles of each other, a density of major corporate employment rare for a suburb of Redmond's size anywhere in the country. Despite that heavy corporate presence, Redmond has maintained a genuine outdoor-recreation identity as well — the city bills itself as the "Bicycle Capital of the Northwest," with an extensive network of mountain biking and road cycling trails, including the Marymoor Park velodrome, one of the only outdoor cycling tracks of its kind on the West Coast. Redmond's combination of hosting Microsoft's entire global headquarters, a significant Nintendo of America presence, and a genuinely well-developed cycling and outdoor-recreation culture has made it one of the most economically important and recreationally distinctive suburbs anywhere in the greater Seattle area.
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