You don’t know me and I don’t expect you to believe me, but i’m going to save you a LOT of pain if you take my advice.
Do not try to live anywhere west of the Rockies and commute to Republic. Take it from someone who did it for five years; you will be miserable.
I’m not saying that Republic is a bad place to work or that Seattle is a bad place to live, but doing both is mutually exclusive.