So...it's not really Rainy here. (Seattle, Sammamish: costs, safe, location)

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Originally Posted by Xanathos

You're in a manic phase. I get it. Everyone who has relocated there gets it. We've all had the honeymoon period. You're not special. For us, it took a good 3 years before we even started to view the grey as a negative, let alone when we decided it was a legitimate problem. We were actually naive enough to call it charming for a while.

You've lived there for all of about 12 minutes, and think you've got the area on lockdown because the other motorists don't give you any shade for poor driving ability and just went through the driest summer on record. And you're coming from a city that was sunny 330 days out of the year. Anecdotally, I've known 4 families that have made the San Diego-to-Seattle migration, and not a one of them made it 5 years. One guy went so far as to relocate his family back to San Diego and then flew to Seattle out of his own pocket when he needed to be in the office so that his company didn't know he had left the state (he pulled it off for about 6 months). Statistically, you have about as good a chance of being right on that as a pair of 18 year olds who run off to elope do of going the distance in their marriage.

I've lived in 6 or so different places, and have found positive merits in every single one.
Typically, one's attitude toward a place may reflect of one's personal attitude toward life (there an old fable regarding this popular on the SD forum, perhaps someone will copy/paste here)
I'm on my fifth year here from SoCal (and back), though I married in my late 20s.

[Botev1912]

San Diego is not sunny 330 days a year. That's exactly like saying Seattle is rainy 9 months of the year. Both statements are highly inaccurate.

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Originally Posted by Botev1912

San Diego is not sunny 330 days a year. That's exactly like saying Seattle is rainy 9 months of the year. Both statements are highly inaccurate.

I do not think that above statement is Highly inaccurate.
I suspect that SD is (mostly) sunny about 300 or more days per year, and SEA is cloudy (not necessarily rainy) 7-8 months per year.
Someone can pull up the stats to confirm or deny.

[AADAD]

San Diego is sunny 300 or more days a year and ALL of those days are boring interspersed with the random whack jobs on the highways.

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Originally Posted by AADAD

San Diego is sunny 300 or more days a year and ALL of those days are boring interspersed with the random whack jobs on the highways.

I agree with your frequency estimate of (mostly) sunny days in SD.

[pikabike]

Please report back after a couple of winters to let people know how nonboring the long stetches of gray days are. The Seattle whack jobs will break up the monotony.

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Originally Posted by pikabike

Please report back after a couple of winters to let people know how nonboring the long stetches of gray days are. The Seattle whack jobs will break up the monotony.

The winters are fine, not boring.
I did not understand your last sentence about jobs, if you can clarify?

[AADAD]

Originally Posted by pikabike

Please report back after a couple of winters to let people know how nonboring the long stetches of gray days are. The Seattle whack jobs will break up the monotony.

something to look forward to.

[pikabike]

Originally Posted by AADAD

something to look forward to.

Good. I don't think the gray winters are so bad. It hardly ever snows there. Rain vs snow, hmmmm, definitely subjective. But the gray gets to some people. You might be OK with the weather but get tired of hearing those people moan about it!

[Seacove]

Originally Posted by pikabike

Good. I don't think the gray winters are so bad. It hardly ever snows there. Rain vs snow, hmmmm, definitely subjective. But the gray gets to some people. You might be OK with the weather but get tired of hearing those people moan about it!

I try to scare people away with it!