Look at the amazing growth in traffic on Indian Head Hwy.

Businesses bring traffic and noise.

It takes a minimum of 15 minutes to get to ANY freeway from my house, and the traffic here sucks because there's a light at EVERY intersection. 

Her background only showed minor traffic tickets.

Credit is perfect, but she's got four criminal results.  2 are from 6 years ago (marijuana/traffic), 1 is four years ago for $1,000 of property destruction, and 1 was last year for an "infraction". 

This allows me to drive and listen to my real estate books hand free while I drive through traffic.

The access to the car wash, what type model it is, the traffic counts, how many other car washes in the area, sightlines to the property ( on a hill,down in a hole,level), any cross anchor larger feeder traffic to site, parcel size layout and shape, etc. all play a vital role in the long time success of the dirt value along with other demographic metrics of course.There are not newly minted national credit leases at 9 caps with retail.

On the other end of the spectrum is a 100% transient park with nightly rental traffic, which will operate and perform more like a hotel. 

You will find some level of commuting in Maine, however, the density around Portland generally allows for a shorter commute (20-30 minutes) because we don't deal with a ton of traffic like other areas.

The Ferries run both directions so your wife can catch a ferry to downtown and a bus to the UW if necessary if you live in Bremerton.If you insist on living in Seattle you are better off living in Magnolia or Queen Anne since traffic can be nasty in the rain and traffic gets snarled which makes it hard to get to the ferry.