I bought a house on the C-line, which was great for awhile. Then Seattle decided enforcing fares was racist, that it was intolerant to kick off people smoking fentanyl on the bus, and it was still faster to drive to work, so I did that instead. :(
Minneapolis is dealing with similar non-enforcement issues on our light rail. As safety and harassment issues increased, common ridership has dropped which exacerbates the problems.
My 5 years in Seattle taught me that there's no faster way to commute than by car. I bought a house as close into the city as I could, but the only affordable place was Skyway, so that's where I ended up. My partner and I at the time were both in tech, and that's all we could afford. Anything closer in to where transit didn't suck, cost monumentally more money. Prices of homes near light rail was totally unaffordable. When we left Seattle, we would not have been able to afford the house at the price we sold it.
