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Old 10-08-2015, 02:37 PM
 
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Curious....if any care to answer, why did any ex western Washingtonians leave?

I study this forum, read comments, and some of the stuff said doesn't always ring completely true for me.

For example, like weather. Yea....I know WA is gray and drizzly, but I also watch the actual weather reports for the region, have for a year, and it's not nearly as bad as many make it out to sound like. ::head scratch::

Wondering what REAL reasons are for people leaving.....
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Old 10-08-2015, 02:52 PM
 
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My guess:

1. Housing costs
2. Overcast skies (it's not the rain which is mostly mist)
3. Seattle Freeze
4. Traffic possibly
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Old 10-08-2015, 03:31 PM
 
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K...what are the reasons people most definitely stay, despite those issues? heh heh

I REALLY like Western WA, Kitsap Peninsula area.
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Old 10-08-2015, 03:44 PM
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Location: Olympic Peninsula, Wa
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I am a born and bred Washingtonian. 15 years ago I moved to Colorado. It lasted 20 months!
I couldn't stand the paranoia and everyone getting in my business.
So I guess I stay because I am comfortable with the "freeze".
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Old 10-08-2015, 03:51 PM
 
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We are held hostage by the beauty and the mist. There are people that are depressed by an overcast sky and there are people that are soothed by it.

Plus:

How many places are greenest in December?
How many places can you take a ferry from Edmonds to Kingston while eating Ivars clam chowder, then drive to places like Port Townsend, Hurricane Ridge or Cape Flattery?
How many places can you have breakfast at Salish Lodge then take the Snoqualmie Falls trail down to the lower Falls?
http://www.beautifulwashington.com/s...mie-falls.html
How many places have wineries, breweries, Christmas Ships, and a gum wall?
How many places have all those great things but it also takes two hours to drive four miles?


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7GCxZ8Mqn9c
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Old 10-08-2015, 04:33 PM
 
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It's funny (to me)....some folks talk of suffering S.A.D. (Seasonal Affective Disorder) from too much cloudiness and rain. I suffer S.A.D. from too much sun and heat! The thought of wandering misty forest landscape at will is the holy grail to me. Sure, I like sun. But a minority of it won't hurt my feelings....

It's quite odd to develop a calling. To trees. And you just know that nothing is going to make that calling go away except to get there......... home. If there is a Freeze, I don't mind......I'd rather talk to trees anyway.

We have a very similar boat parade here in San Diego, 15 minutes from me. I'd happily trade it for one in WA! And those falls are spectacular. In fact ANY form of H20 looks rare and precious to a Southern Californian..haha!
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Old 10-08-2015, 04:51 PM
 
Location: WA
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It's funny (to me)....some folks talk of suffering S.A.D. (Seasonal Affective Disorder) from too much cloudiness and rain. I suffer S.A.D. from too much sun and heat! The thought of wandering misty forest landscape at will is the holy grail to me. Sure, I like sun. But a minority of it won't hurt my feelings....

It's quite odd to develop a calling. To trees. And you just know that nothing is going to make that calling go away except to get there......... home. If there is a Freeze, I don't mind......I'd rather talk to trees anyway.
My thoughts also.
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Old 10-08-2015, 04:56 PM
 
Location: Aloverton
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I left Seattle because, while there was so much to do, much of it was such a struggle that it didn't matter.

I would not have hesitated to go to another part of western WA, though. As I'm sure Chehalis and Bellingham would emphasize, Seattle and western WA are not one and the same.
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Old 10-08-2015, 06:14 PM
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I have never lived in western Washington. However, all my neighbors have!!!

Weather. Period. The primary reason for all my new neighbors leaving western Washington. A couple even had a doctor tell them to leave for their kids health.

One of the benefits of global warming.....just might be that all these 206ers will move back home!!!
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Old 10-08-2015, 06:24 PM
 
Location: WA Desert, Seattle native
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I left in 1990 because in my field of work my chance of being a manager was unlikely in Seattle, and more likely in Eastern WA. After living in other PNW markets, Alaska, and the Chicago area, I eventually moved back to Washington, but chose Eastern because of the lower cost of living and better weather. (Though I too liked rain and clouds, but as I get older, less so).
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