But they are late-model, three doors with liners so the beds don't get scratched. Brier is small, about 6,200 people, just east of Mountlake Terrace , a little piece of country living. The last mayoral race centered around whether one of the city's streets should be opened to through traffic. It's still closed. And a bank that wanted to open a branch there was told no, because it might bring too much traffic.
Brier has no aspirations to be big.
Residents here seem happy about it being quiet, faceless, a place to live but not to work. However, for a country town, the homey touches are missing. There is a country store, the Brier Grocery, but there are no tables and chairs inside for the morning crowd to meet and sip coffee. That's because there is no morning crowd. Everyone is too busy on their way to somewhere else.