“ask the Wa. Freepers if they know of a condo for rent or sale”
Check out Kirkland. It is a great little city to retire. You can walk to everything.
Maybe pricy, so check out Juanita on the lake. Beautify and also walkable.
Down town Bellevue has a lot of new condo and apartment buildings going on. Also, walkable.
Now if you want to get away from liberals, I suggest moving to Wenatchee. This is a retirement haven. Everything is close and the prices are lower. People are really nice and it is conservative. My mom moved there and she loves it. Everything is so close and she has everything that she needs.
Agree with your comments on Wenatchee, but having been in this area for almost 60 years I’ve watched Wenatchee and Ellensburg become increasing infested with Puget Sound and California liberals. Compared to (even) smaller towns in eastern Wa they are almost beyond saving. The wind farms alone brought over a large number of liberals and vacation houses brought a bunch of the others (mostly Microsoft-Amazon-Starbucks types).