Looking for a new house? Are you looking for a place to start anew? A lot of people are very hesitant about leaving the place where they grew up and with most people this is their only concept of a home.
Question is, the place you call home is it safe? How is the crime rate? How are the public schools? Are they active in sports and academics? Are the public facilities adequate? Are there jobs there? What opportunities and how many can be explored? Is rent or home prices affordable? What is the history of the area? And the most important question, how are the people? Are they good people?
In Washington state, there is a city called Hoquiam, It is a city that was built by people who new how to start from scratch, people who knew how to make something good out of nothing, they were woodsmen and lumberjacks after all. Men who knew what and how a good the lumber a particular tree will produce and how strong, useful and for what purpose that lumber is going to be.
Hoquiam was built on the industry of lumber and the arms and sweat of lumberjacks and millers alike who toiled and grunted as they heaved and made lumber out of giant trees that were Hoquiam’s treasure trove of sorts. It was the forest and the lumber that it produced that made the people of Hoquiam as they were.
The current population of Hoquiam is not that mixed in terms of ethnicity and the total number of people is smaller compared to other cities around Washington, it has the subsequent demographics. The total population of Hoquiam broken down according to gender is, 4,425 males and that is 48.6% of the total population, there are 4,672 females or 51.4% of the population. There are 2,491 under 18 or 7.4% of the city population, there are 6,606 above 18 years of age or 2.6% of the population, 15.3% of that is 65+1, or 393 of the total residents. The median age is 36.1 and the average family size is 3.09. The ethnic mix is as follows; White 8,125 or 9.3%, African-American 29 or 0.3%, Asian 107 or 1.2%, American Indian & Alaskan 351 or 3.9%, Other 190 or 2.1%, Mixed Race 289 or 3.2%, Hispanic (inclusive of the other categories above) 523 or 5.7%.
Hoquiam is very proud of its heritage and history as a people and as a town that hard work built. People who come visit the town sense that pride and deep sense of history still. Unlike in other places, other cities where history is hidden and only a few still know about it, in Hoquiam history is celebrated it is renewed and in some cases given life anew to be part of the now and the future. Old homes like the Polson’s place now the Polson museum, Robert Lytle’s Victorian-style mansion now called Hoquiam’s Castle and is presently being used as a Bed and Breakfast Inn, and the 7th Street Theatre, still entertaining after all those years, as well as the Hoquiam Train Depot, refurbished and leased to the State of Washington, still after many decades of use is still serving people today.
Hoquiam is a very nice place to live and invest in, it is definitely a place where you would want your children to grow, and it is place where you will be proud to call home. If you and your family value people and their past and how they perceive life with all the things that make it as it is, then this is the place for you. If home is somewhere you are always welcome but whenever you stay you learn something valuable, then Hoquiam is what you are looking for.
A home that loves you back, that is what Hoquiam is all about, it is the people who live around you that matters, people who you can rely on you and help you and your family if need be, people who you will always be proud to call your neighbors. The most interesting about deciding to be part of Hoquiam is, your willingness and your character to be a good neighbor, to be a responsible resident, a nice person is simply the pre-requisites of being able to call Hoquiam your home too.
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