Seattle was the saddest metro area in the nation last month (transplants, house)

[usernametaken]

Seattle Times paywall, so linking to Reddit.

https://www.reddit.com/r/SeattleWA/c...in_the_nation/

I found November 2020 in Seattle too dark and gloomy too, but still preferred it to the much snowier and colder half of the US.

[pete98146]

We folk that live in Seattle really rely on indoor activities during late fall and winter months. My wife and I absolutely love discovering new restaurants in town and we enjoy listening to live music. During the lockdown, these events are taken away from us and frankly we miss it! So yes, I can see why residents of our fair city would be a bit blue.

[BjorntheCold]

IMO, there are a lot of people who move to Seattle and the immediate region who simply don't belong there. Seasonal affective disorder is a real thing, and a huge percentage of Western Washington's transplants were basically raised on pure sunshine (300+ days a year in many locations) in California. So the resultant depression is of little shock.

What's most absurd to me is turning on any of the Seattle news outlets and listening to them ***** about the weather from October - May... like the near-constant cloud cover and drizzle/rain/wind come as some kind of an unpleasant surprise. This is just what the place is, and I personally find it delightful. But if it isn't your cup of tea, grousing about it isn't going to change anything.

[Kayela]

Y'know - we're not exactly 'chipper' during the other months either...

[rjshae]

You'd think we'd be a great town for blues music.

[thatguy950]

Originally Posted by rjshae

You'd think we'd be a great town for blues music.

Grunge music is basically blues with electric guitar

[Sockeye66]

Originally Posted by thatguy950

Grunge music is basically blues with electric guitar

And don't forget the white guys.

[Bluefox]

Originally Posted by BjorntheCold

IMO, there are a lot of people who move to Seattle and the immediate region who simply don't belong there. Seasonal affective disorder is a real thing, and a huge percentage of Western Washington's transplants were basically raised on pure sunshine (300+ days a year in many locations) in California. So the resultant depression is of little shock.

What's most absurd to me is turning on any of the Seattle news outlets and listening to them ***** about the weather from October - May... like the near-constant cloud cover and drizzle/rain/wind come as some kind of an unpleasant surprise. This is just what the place is, and I personally find it delightful. But if it isn't your cup of tea, grousing about it isn't going to change anything.

Yeah... I completely agree with this. I don’t know what people expect when they move here and find out that yes, it is actually cold and rainy for most of the winter, and a good part of fall and spring. Seattle is almost synonymous with clouds and rain. You have to be really ignorant or sheltered to not know this.

[homesinseattle]

Originally Posted by thatguy950

Grunge music is basically blues with electric guitar

That guy, I don’t agree with many of your posts but you are spot on here. I bike by Kurt Cobain’s last house (in WA Park) when he died almost every day. The park and bench next to his home has become a John Lennon-esque gathering place to remember him, people leave concert photos, t-shirts, paintings, vodka bottles. I’ve ridden by there probably 100 times, today I saw the most creepy/poignant thing I’ve ever seen, a baby doll I’m sure to look like the In Utero album cover.

[Blondebaerde]

Originally Posted by thatguy950

Grunge music is basically blues with electric guitar

Stevie Ray Vaughan FTW (RIP!)