North Seattle Community College is located on a 62-acre campus in the city of Seattle. We are 5 minutes away from a major shopping center, movie theatres, restaurants and parks, and 15 minutes away from downtown Seattle.
Seattle is a large city, but it includes a lot of nature as well. You will see lots of trees, rolling hills, and water along with skyscraper buildings. The public transportation is efficient and easy to use.
Seattle has been voted the most dynamic city by Fortune and Money magazine. It was also voted the most educated city in 2006. This international city is home to Microsoft, Starbucks, Boeing, and Amazon.com.
There are many professional athletic teams in Seattle including the Mariners for baseball, Seahawks for football and the Sonics for basketball.
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Seattle is a beautiful, secure, and friendly city in the northwestern part of the United States. Known as one of America's best places to live, it is a busy seaport on the Pacific Rim. It is three hours by car from Vancouver, Canada. Our city is proud of its active cultural, art and music communities.
Seattle Opera: www.seattleopera.org
Seattle Symphony: www.seattlesymphony.org
Experience Music Project: www.emplive.com
Seattle Art Museum: www.seattleartmuseum.org
Museum of History and Industry: www.seattlehistory.org
Sports fans can attend Seattle Mariners baseball, Seahawks football, Sounders soccer, and Sonics basketball games.
Mariners: www.mariners.org
Seahawks: www.seahawks.com
Sonics: www.nba.com/sonics
Sounders: www.seattlesounders.net
The Seattle area has aerospace, computer software, and high tech-industries, with companies like Boeing and Microsoft located here. Excellent shopping centers and civic events make our city an exciting place to live and study.
Two Seattle newspapers can be found at:
The Seattle Times · http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/
The Seattle P-I · http://seattlep-i.nwsource.com/
To travel around Seattle, simply use the Metro bus system. It's convenient, secure, and easy to use.
The bus lines that connect to NSCC's campus are 5, 16, 75, and 318.
Metro: http://transit.metrokc.gov
Seattle is located on the Puget Sound of the Pacific Ocean. On the eastern side of the city is Lake Washington, and the Cascades Mountain Range is to the east of the lake. The weather in Seattle is temperate, ranging from 36-50 degrees Fahrenheit in the winter and from 55-80 degrees Fahrenheit in the summer. Rainfall averages 5 ½ inches per month in the winter and 1inch per month in the summer.
For more information about Seattle, click on:
Seattle Citysearch
Seattle's Official Website
Photo Gallery of Seattle
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