Boy, you out ya damn mind.
We barely squeaked into the top 25 in average annual rainfall in the US: http://www.livescience.com/1558-stud...st-cities.html
And that was Olympia!
Basically, the rain you have in SLC never happens here.
NEVER.
It ranges from a sprinkle to a drizzle to a seriously heavy drizzle...but the gigantic thundershowers of the midwest, the absolutely torrential drowning that most of the west get...that kind of truly heavy rain? Never. Yeah, OK, I only been up here since 1988...maybe it was worse before that, but I call bullshit. The little piss rain we get here is hardly all that big a deal at all...but...this place is the least average sunlight in the continental US.
This is the Evergray State.
Bring your own girl is HIGHLY recommended, this entire state is a sausage fest. Girls that would be a 4 in San Diego (where I am actually from, but have lived all over the US) are like 8s here, but think they are 12's.
Seriously. This state has more dorks and geeks than anywhere in the entire US. I fit right in. I freakin love it here.
Outside of Seattle or Vancouver (bedroom community for Portland, literally across a bridge) most everyone who isn't a worker in the technology industry is a fisherman or a logger... and even those grizzly fucks have smart phones and know how to use them. Geek central...the tweekers in the rural areas are both common and insane, as they are in most the US, it seems.
So, small towns outside of the Puget Sound region (google that shit, see how the Puget Sound affects travel patterns. Everywhere you want to go has millions of people on it, going the same way at the same time.) suck. Tiny crappy muddy little shithole towns, full of idiots and rednecks. Women spit.
Most of them also have a fairly new "development" with "incredible deals" on houses...except for the other 200,000 people who are also tired of or incapable of paying housing costs anywhere you want to live. My wifes commute (Renton to Redmond, across the street from a major Microsoft "campus" with every kind of Asian immigrant known to man) is roughly 20 miles actual driving. Her commute typically is 45 minutes at 7:00 AM, one hour and more until friday night, then it is 2 hours to get home.
We have an easy commute. People who want to live in the "nice" areas pay 200% more than we do and have a far worse commute...some of my wifes co-workers drive 2 hours each way...but only like 30 miles!
You can also see this was some fucked up planning. Driving the freeways up here you can see that most of them simply cannot be made bigger. Geography makes it basically impossible. We get taxed to death, BTW. Most every county is over 8%, we are 9.something...sales tax but no personal income tax. Running a business up here is a pain in the ass if that might be on your agenda.
LOTS of fun shit to do, but of course more in the summer when the weather can be just incredible for hours on end sometimes...OK, maybe a day or three, but seriously, Seattle area just had it hottest day EVER last summer (or was it the one before?) of like 97 degrees...but it also is pretty humid alll the time.
Look at the Puget Sound...that is a BUNCH of water, and we huddle around it. It is always wet here, that is where the perception of this being such a rainy place comes from...even though it ain't true. If you suffer from Seasonal Issues, you know, like pollen allergies or just can't handle life without a sun, you might not wanna move here.
All in all I love it here. Wish I had moved here younger, wish I had come straight to Seattle in 1988, instead of hanging around Portland for 15 years, then moving to god-forsaken Springfield, Oregon for another 5...before FINALLY making the move November 2008.
Now, how about you post some actual questions?
Luke
We barely squeaked into the top 25 in average annual rainfall in the US: http://www.livescience.com/1558-stud...st-cities.html
And that was Olympia!
Basically, the rain you have in SLC never happens here.
NEVER.
It ranges from a sprinkle to a drizzle to a seriously heavy drizzle...but the gigantic thundershowers of the midwest, the absolutely torrential drowning that most of the west get...that kind of truly heavy rain? Never. Yeah, OK, I only been up here since 1988...maybe it was worse before that, but I call bullshit. The little piss rain we get here is hardly all that big a deal at all...but...this place is the least average sunlight in the continental US.
This is the Evergray State.
Bring your own girl is HIGHLY recommended, this entire state is a sausage fest. Girls that would be a 4 in San Diego (where I am actually from, but have lived all over the US) are like 8s here, but think they are 12's.
Seriously. This state has more dorks and geeks than anywhere in the entire US. I fit right in. I freakin love it here.
Outside of Seattle or Vancouver (bedroom community for Portland, literally across a bridge) most everyone who isn't a worker in the technology industry is a fisherman or a logger... and even those grizzly fucks have smart phones and know how to use them. Geek central...the tweekers in the rural areas are both common and insane, as they are in most the US, it seems.
So, small towns outside of the Puget Sound region (google that shit, see how the Puget Sound affects travel patterns. Everywhere you want to go has millions of people on it, going the same way at the same time.) suck. Tiny crappy muddy little shithole towns, full of idiots and rednecks. Women spit.
Most of them also have a fairly new "development" with "incredible deals" on houses...except for the other 200,000 people who are also tired of or incapable of paying housing costs anywhere you want to live. My wifes commute (Renton to Redmond, across the street from a major Microsoft "campus" with every kind of Asian immigrant known to man) is roughly 20 miles actual driving. Her commute typically is 45 minutes at 7:00 AM, one hour and more until friday night, then it is 2 hours to get home.
We have an easy commute. People who want to live in the "nice" areas pay 200% more than we do and have a far worse commute...some of my wifes co-workers drive 2 hours each way...but only like 30 miles!
You can also see this was some fucked up planning. Driving the freeways up here you can see that most of them simply cannot be made bigger. Geography makes it basically impossible. We get taxed to death, BTW. Most every county is over 8%, we are 9.something...sales tax but no personal income tax. Running a business up here is a pain in the ass if that might be on your agenda.
LOTS of fun shit to do, but of course more in the summer when the weather can be just incredible for hours on end sometimes...OK, maybe a day or three, but seriously, Seattle area just had it hottest day EVER last summer (or was it the one before?) of like 97 degrees...but it also is pretty humid alll the time.
Look at the Puget Sound...that is a BUNCH of water, and we huddle around it. It is always wet here, that is where the perception of this being such a rainy place comes from...even though it ain't true. If you suffer from Seasonal Issues, you know, like pollen allergies or just can't handle life without a sun, you might not wanna move here.
All in all I love it here. Wish I had moved here younger, wish I had come straight to Seattle in 1988, instead of hanging around Portland for 15 years, then moving to god-forsaken Springfield, Oregon for another 5...before FINALLY making the move November 2008.
Now, how about you post some actual questions?
Luke
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