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Longview is ideally situated along the Interstate 5 corridor between Seattle Washington and Portland Oregon, offering residents a rural lifestyle with year-around opportunities for recreation. The city of Longview is centered around Lake Sacajawea and its 3.5 miles of walking trails, parks, and year around events. It is the largest city in Cowlitz County at approximately 35,000 residents. Longview real estate is very affordable and offers the intimacy of a small town and rural living with the convenience of a short drive to larger cities such as Vancouver Washington, or Portland Oregon.
The Longview-Kelso area is a scenic corner of Southwest Washington situated at the confluence of three rivers with a backdrop of lush green forests and snow capped mountains, with opportunities for year-around recreation drawing both visitors and residents. The comfortable rural lifestyle and small town charm of the area is unique in that if offers elegant residential neighborhoods like the “Old West Side Neighborhood” for living along side international corporations in its riverfront business industries. Longview has primarily been a timber-based economy but now has other manufacturing businesses to provide a more stable economic base. Longview residents enjoy moderately priced real estate where owning a home is still very affordable.
The city of Longview is situated along the Columbia River next to its twin city Kelso; these two cities are divided by another river, the Cowlitz River. The Longview-Kelso area is centrally located in between the Cascade Mountains and the Pacific Ocean, a short drive either east or west puts you in either place. The climate of Longview influenced by the Pacific Ocean is mild, offering warm summers and mild winters. Many residents of larger cities such as Portland, Vancouver, Seattle, and Tacoma to name a few have discovered that Longview is a great place to relocate and retire because Longview offers a all the conveniences of a large city with hospitals, medical facilities and retail shopping without all the hustle and bustle of larger cities. If you would like more information about Longview Washington or your own private tour you should give Sea-Port Realty a call today.
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