Seattle Neighborhoods

We're going up to Seattle on a house-hunting trip soon. We're planning to spend our time exploring Seattle's neighborhoods a bit, as well as looking at individual houses for sale, checking out potential commutes, etc.

In the meanwhile, we've been doing some reading about these neighborhoods, and found some nice resources:

• Newcomer's Handbook for Seattle: This book has short descriptions of neighborhoods, as well as lots of useful information about the whole area, such as lists of libraries, post offices, grocery stores, banks, etc. A bit of everything you need to know.
  
• Seattle Post-Intelligencer's Webtowns: This is a great guide to Seattle's neighborhoods, including historical information, maps, census data, community resources, and links to the neighborhood web site.
  
• Lost in Seattle is a building-by-building map of the Seattle, labeling the location of restaurants, hardware stores, dentists, and basically every other business that has a storefront. A very explorable view of Seattle.
  
• To get a feel for the neighborhood eateries, the Seattle Weekly Food section has a neighborhood-by-neighborhood list of restaurants and reviews. Just go to their site, and find the neighborhoods link in the middle of the page.
  

Given financial and commute constraints, we've narrowed down our interests to a handful of neighborhoods. We're going to be look at Green Lake, Fremont, Phinney Ridge, Wallingford, and Ravenna. We'll also be keeping an eye out for houses in our price range in Madrona, Madison Valley, or Capitol Hill.

Yup, we've sure narrowed it down. I'm hoping that this trip to Seattle clears things up a bit more. When we come back, I'll write a bit more about our impressions of these places.