superego
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Seattle, WA - Rating: 5 The good: fairly multi-cultural, strong local (NW) cuisine + decent ethnic cuisine, excellent seafood, abundant waterfront resulting in affordable waterfront housing, decent ski resorts within 2-hr drive, hiking/backpacking paradise, excellent hospitals, strong university (UW), dense public transit system, 2.5-hr drive to Vancouver BC. The bad: rain (lots of it), people are not very outgoing (because of the rain mostly), not much opportunity for outdoor activities except in summer (again because of the rain), sartorially dissapointing (and hopeless), too politically correct/green, bad drivers, ugly bars/clubs with even uglier crowds, small proportion of women being actually feminine. Overall: Affordable, livable but you won't be happy here unless you fit one of the several typical "NW profiles":
It's a myth. It doesn't really rain that much here. Unless what you mean by rain is "there are clouds in the sky". Seattle *IS* eternally 'partially cloudy'. But that doesn't stop anyone from doing anything outdoors. I'd say that it was less affordable than you'd make it out to be, and while I'm sure we all know someone who fits into one of the stereotypes in that ad campaign (The four way stop guy is me. Sorry!) There are a lot of things to do in this city, both indoors and out, and you don't have to be a socks with birkenstocks guy to like living here.
That's not what I said. I said "partially cloudy" as in what the weather report calls this:
I'd actually 2nd virtually all of Starvos' points. The winters are incredibly drab and drizzly (worse than any of the other four cities I've lived in and I grew up in Buffalo), the people are, to generalize, anti-social and unattractive and it's fundamentally a second tier city. The summers ARE amazing (like, seriously amazing--your pic highlights this) and the cost of living is quite good for the city's size, but anyone that complains about how expensive things are (and there are a lot of them) simply hasn't lived in any other major city (NY/LA/SF)--housing is basically free here in comparison to SF. I'd personally put Seattle around a 5 out of 10 as well and think of it as a budget version of San Francisco.