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View Poll Results: How do you like living in Washington?
Love it, I'll never leave 23 31.08%
Really like it but not sure if it's forever 22 29.73%
Like some things but serious negatives have me considering leaving 19 25.68%
Hate it and can't wait to see it in my rear view mirror 10 13.51%
Voters: 74. You may not vote on this poll

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Old 06-25-2019, 06:20 AM
 
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I left when the lemming swarm became too much. There are parts that haven't been ruined yet but I'm not going to mention them because then the swarms will swarm there.
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Old 06-25-2019, 07:23 AM
 
Location: We_tside PNW (Columbia Gorge) / CO / SA TX / Thailand
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I left when the lemming swarm became too much. There are parts that haven't been ruined yet but I'm not going to mention them because then the swarms will swarm there.
Sounds like when we left Colorado (in the late 1970's)

Still frequent CO, WA, TX (hill country) while in USA. (seldom as possible)
Nothing is perfect, but there are still a lot of choices (WY, MT, ID, SD, AK are also favorite spots)

IN MN, WI, UpMI this week. Getting late (mayfly hatch + mosquitoes)

UT, AZ, NV, CA last week.
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Old 06-25-2019, 04:05 PM
 
Location: Seattle
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I've lived here since 1985. I have sidestepped most of the issues that drive people nuts in Seattle:


1. Seattle Freeze. I have enough friends that this condition doesn't phase me much.
2. Difficult dating environment. Happily married.
3. Expensive housing. House soon paid off.


Now the one thing that drives my wife crazy and it will lead to us leaving is the weather. Really no getting around this. We have approx. 1 year to go before leaving.....

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Old 06-25-2019, 05:02 PM
 
Location: Shelton, WA
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We love it, retired here a year and half ago from CA.. we just love everything about this state. The only thing I miss is all my family and friends back home.. but every day we say we feel like we are on a vacation ♥
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Old 06-26-2019, 03:22 AM
 
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It IS hard to know where to begin here.


I too came up from California back in 1991 for me.


I would say the weather is one of the things I like best.


You've got to have some precipitation and not just over a few days or weeks to support this:





(This isn't me in any of these pics.)





fev fallout 3








It doesn't "rain" a lot, it drizzles a lot!


Yet, we have great drainage too, you never hear about floods around here.


So you can get your weather spread more or less evenly through a year or get it all in one "wallop" over a couple days and watch your house float away every two years.


It is not so much the rain, but the clouds that give us our terrific weather!


exotic names that start with s


Clouds are a sun shade in the summer and a nice warm blanket in the winter, I can't understand people wanting to move to the desert which is both hotter and COLDER than the PNW, but to each their own.


And if one gets tired of a rural setting, Seattle is dazzling!





No area is perfect (so stop typing) but overall and in many ways that stand out this is my favorite state by far, and I've been to plenty.


Some people were born in a place, some people live somewhere because of their job or family ties, I chose this area specifically on it's own merits and those to other places by comparison.


THIS is "God's Country!"





Thx

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Old 06-26-2019, 06:16 AM
 
Location: Phoenix
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We love it, retired here a year and half ago from CA.. we just love everything about this state. The only thing I miss is all my family and friends back home.. but every day we say we feel like we are on a vacation ♥
How is Shelton from a retirement perspective?

For sure the beauty of the state is almost unmatched so my criticisms of the rain are somewhat offset with the results of that rain.
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Old 06-26-2019, 11:14 AM
 
Location: Northwest Peninsula
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I love where I live in Clallam county and the negatives are a very short list, starting with arrogant Seattle drivers who think the speed limits don't apply to them.
I didn't love it in the Seattle King county area for obvious reasons. And that list is long....
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Old 06-26-2019, 11:17 AM
 
Location: West coast
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Awesome Pics.
Thank you for posting them.
Are the waterfall pics in the rain forest?
I’m taking the wife there in a couple days.
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Old 06-26-2019, 11:24 AM
 
Location: 49th parallel
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This year particularly we have been thanking our lucky stars we did not have floods, tornadoes, windstorms, and persistent rain as so many parts of the country did. We seem to live in a very benign part of the country, weather-wise. Nothing much happens here (until the big one, of course, but who's counting?)

Wet but not freezing winters, lovely summers - what more could you want?
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Old 06-26-2019, 02:01 PM
 
Location: Home is Where You Park It
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65 yrs in the PNW, wet side, says it all.
50 years for me, and I feel the same. Wet side. N Cali, Oregon, Washington, or even BC - it's my bioregion. Totally at home here, whatever the state.
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