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Okay, great. I've lived in and love both places (I already said I'd chose the NW over the Midwest anyway!) but the truth of the matter is raw rainfall totals as far as inches per year goes are very misleading, because it assumes the same volume of rain per rainfall, and that's not the case at all.
In Seattle it can rain for two days straight and only total a 3 hour rainfall in Chicago- and it often does! So if you say they both get x inches of rain per y time period (or any other random number) it doesn't mean much because that doesn't at all mean that it's rainy and gloomy for the same time period.
That said, I wouldn't be surprised if Seattle has the same or even less overcast days than Chicago does per year, because it's really nice and sunny in Seattle during the summer. But it's gloomy and rainy for many, many more days during the winter than it is in either Chicago's winter or summer, and that's why people get depressed there: It's all right at the same time.
Soooo you prefer TX, its ice storms, hurricanes, record tornadoes, soulless cities (minus San Antonio and Austin), God-awful heat and swampy humidity, nasty bugs, flat-as-flat-can-be landscapes (minus West Texas), etc, etc, etc?
We can rip on regions, too.
Honestly, I'd still pick Texas over the midwest in a heartbeat. Of all the places that I've lived in this country (which has been quite a bit), the midwest is by far the worst area I had to experience. But anyway, I can also detect bitter midwestern sarcasm, so I know you're not being 100% serious, so I'll stop. I know regions can rip on us as well. Texas takes as much crap (probably more) than it dishes out.
I'd still take soulless, God-awful heat induced Dallas and Houston and anywhere in the Pacific Northwest over ridiculously corrupt, pretentious and segregated Chicago any day of the week.
Honestly, I'd still pick Texas over the midwest in a heartbeat. Of all the places that I've lived in this country (which has been quite a bit), the midwest is by far the worst area I had to experience. But anyway, I can also detect bitter midwestern sarcasm, so I know you're not being 100% serious, so I'll stop. I know regions can rip on us as well. Texas takes as much crap (probably more) than it dishes out.
I'd still take soulless, God-awful heat induced Dallas and Houston and anywhere in the Pacific Northwest over ridiculously corrupt, pretentious and segregated Chicago any day of the week.
I'd still take soulless, God-awful heat induced Dallas and Houston and anywhere in the Pacific Northwest over ridiculously corrupt, pretentious and segregated Chicago any day of the week.
Definately the northwest. Unsurpassed natural beauty, varied climates, beautiful big cities, charming small towns, snowcapped mountains, peaks, valleys, desert, wine country, Whistler, Vancouver, Port Townsend, Seattle, Olympic National Park, Mount Rainier, the San Juan Islands, Portland...
Northwest by far. Chicago is a world-class city, but the rest of the midwestern cities are decaying, dreary, often racially segregated, economically moribund places, suffering from a dying manufacturing sector. Central Seattle, Portland, or Vancouver neighborhoods are vibrant and active, with tons of street life. The natural beauty of the rural northwest is as impressive as anything in the lower 48 states; whereas, the rural midwest has a lovely cornfields.
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