Seattle
Just two hours from the Canadian border, Seattle is a world class city surrounded by beautiful natural scenery in America's Pacific Northwest. This pristine region of the USA is famous for its green hills, rugged mountains and waterways that lure outdoorsy types by the thousands. Seattle is laid-back, creative and fiercely independent - make it your base while using your 12 Month USA Graduate Visa, and enjoy its music history and coffee culture.
Why Seattle?
Seattle is the birthplace of many iconic people and brands, such as Jimi Hendrix, Nirvana, Amazon.com, Starbucks and Microsoft. Seattle is a hotbed of tech innovation. It also attracts nature lovers and people who enjoy a healthy lifestyle, and therefore has become a leader in sustainable design.
Choose Seattle as your home away from home, and enjoy the fresh air, hiking and cycling, world-famous espresso and young, creative population. If you want to gain invaluable career training in the USA, while enjoying outdoor sports, music and a vibrant social scene, Seattle is hard to beat. From the Space Needle to snowcapped Mount Rainier, Seattle stands head and shoulders above the rest.
Where to Intern
Seattle is an ideal place for gaining experience in financial services, business management and IT. Graduates or student using their USA visa to pursue careers in clean technology and renewable energy will be at the cutting edge. (Washington state gets over 70% of it electricity from water, and many business are carbon neutral.) Aeronautics and higher education are big industries too, with the University of Washington one of the city's largest employers. The sciences play a major role in Seattle's job market, including biopharmaceuticals and health-related industries. Bioengineering gets a boost from the Seattle-based Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, meaning the city that gave the world Microsoft continues to support research and development.
Where to Live
From the bohemiam Fremont district to the bars of Capitol Hill, Seattle offers many neighbourhoods to adopt as your own. There's the friendliness of Georgetown with its craft breweries and cafes, the lakeside trails of Kirkland or the boutique shops of Ballard, to name but a few. To find an apartment, visit Seattle.sublet.com, Seattle.craigslist.org or Zillow.com.
Climate
Mild, temperate and often foggy, Seattle is typical of the Pacific Northwest and a pleasant place to live while working in the US. It has a reputation for drizzle, but the sun often shines. The weather can vary greatly from region to region, whether you're by the sea or in the mountains. Expect wet winters and warm, mostly dry summers.
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