What the hell is going on with his head movements lately? Whenever he isn't gesticulating wildly while blathering incoherently, he makes these weird head-turns away from the camera, almost like a mild cringe, or wince? Someone posted an extreme example of it earlier. Its definitely a more recent thing.
Also, traffic must be as bad as LA for it to triple the travel time. Moving to the Seattle area was definitely one of the worst decisions he ever made, second only to becoming a streamer. It consistently ranks above LA as the most expensive city in the country, and in some lists is second only to New York. As far as housing goes, its outrageous, and even worse, Renton is considered an overpriced shithole even for Seattle. The only reason a sane person would have for living there would be family/roots, a good non-remote job, a very specific scene you need to be a part of, shit like that. So why is Phil, a guy who never leaves his house, living there? Its bleeding him dry, and is one of the main reasons, after gacha, that he can never catch up financially. He could do this job anywhere. If he moved to Arkansas or some shit, he could have an insane boost to quality of life, which lets be ahnest, would just mean more Hogan pulls, but still, that's his metric for luxury. I think he just wanted to move to a big city to prove he was a serious khantent creator so he could impress Panda and dab on his detractor parents for telling him to get a real job. Since its Phil, of course he didn't do any research, he literally can't google how to reset a router, so I doubt he could conceive of googling something as abstract as cost-of-living despite being a Finance Major valedictorian.