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Michael Arrington just moved to Seattle

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"I moved my primary residence from Silicon Valley to Seattle"

Hmm, that's very specific wording there. In my world, filled with tax advisors and lawyers, this translates to "I'm trying to avoid paying California state income tax on capital gains I will accrue in the near future."

Very convenient that Washington State has no income tax.

Especially if he is often on the road and therefore not subjecting himself the Washington's high (I think 10%) sales tax.

I think it's 9.5%, same as CA.

So typical of TC to spread this sort of unfounded gossip without even one quote or citation. Did they even contact Arrington to confirm before jumping to publish this rumor? If so, one has to wonder why they haven't included anything more than speculation into this post. Can we just finally ban TC here?

What you mean by contact Arrington? He is the author of that post...so no TC banning yet. ;)

huh? looking at your karma of 4135 , I'll assume, you know who Arrington is, and probably know TC = Arrington just to keep it short..... ;) , so lte us agree, this was a funny joke. :)

Sibling commenters please note that May 3 is International Sarcasm Detector Battery Replacement Day.

We'll see how he likes it come next May, after a Long, Gray, Winter.

He should have considered moving to Portland. Entrepreneur Magazine last year ranked PDX as the second best place to start a "small-business." However, that doesn't mean there are more startups (or more VC deals take place) in Portland than Seattle.

Source: http://blog.oregonlive.com/siliconforest/2009/07/ranking_por...

And where did you read he hasn't considered moving to Portland?

It'd be interesting to see if TechCrunch would talk more about some big company in Redmond.

(Also, couldn't resist - this is like Dr. Frasier Crane's move from Boston in search for "mixing things up"; Hope Arrington is listening to the Seattle startups :-)

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