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Yelm, WA vs Seaside, OR

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Yelm is a very nice city to live in. Small enough to have that small town flavor but big enough not to be cramped. Has access to pretty much everywhere you want to go.  More

I've lived in Yelm 2 years now and LOVE IT! We moved here to get away of the crazyness and extreamly crampedness of the "suburbia"of Puyallup which is just outside of  More

Horrible crime, you can’t leave your house without seeing flocks of drug addicts nor take a nature walk without seeing vagrant camps full of dirty, used needles and  More

I lived in Seaside Oregon from 1974 te 1982, off and on. Now I'm way over in Pennsylvania, but I still call Seaside home. The area is so beautiful ... there's no place  More