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Tasmania, Patagonia, anything with an alpine or polar climate (no months above 5˚C average).
Why? They're not that bad.
Remember the world has Africa, the Arabian Peninsula, India, SE Asia or the Amazon jungles where it's always 30°C with a RH around 80%. Like the world from Predator.
The world has also Siberia, Greenland, Antarctica, Canada, Svalbard, etc. and such places with terrifying cold, unliveable climates.
Ofc when I say Africa or Canada I'm not saying the whole continent or the whole country but much of their area.
Remember the world has Africa, the Arabian Peninsula, India, SE Asia or the Amazon jungles where it's always 30°C with a RH around 80%. Like the world from Predator.
The world has also Siberia, Greenland, Antarctica, Canada, Svalbard, etc. and such places with terrifying cold, unliveable climates.
Ofc when I say Africa or Canada I'm not saying the whole continent or the whole country but much of their area.
Painting the whole of Africa as hot and humid is stupid. I know in the west we think that Africa is one big place that's all the same but there is huge variety there from desert to alpine in the highest elevations. Indeed, some of the most populated cities are up in the mountains where they have a pleasant subtropical highland climate; nowhere near hot and humid. Check Addis Abba, Asmara, and Maseru, to name a few.
I can think of a few really. Some are too obvious. Polar/tundra climates are damn near unlivable (yes I know there are native populations in those places, but there's a reason they're sparsely populated). Same with deserts.
Of places that actually have a decent amount of people. Asia in general is a mess. East Asia (China down to Vietnam) is incredibly cloudy with very warm low temps. Indian subcontinent looks terrible with some areas getting very very hot temps and then monsoon rains dumping incredible amounts of rain. SW Asia/middle east has quite possibly the worst summers of anyplace on earth. Humidity often exceeds that of the American gulf coast but with temps that rival the desert southwest.
Honorable mentions to places with year round heat/humidity that just are unrelenting. Also to extreme continental climates where you have to deal with summers that get decently hot and bitterly cold winters with wild temp swings throughout the year.
No, not even close. Seattle has fantastic summers. I'd say most people would agree with that.
For sure, and the rest of the year isn't bad either IMO. Almost never too hot, never too cold.
Most depressing in world? Good grief. If lack of sunshine, cool to chilly temps and lots of rain are the qualifiers, PNW isn't nearly so extreme as coastal Alaska, Patagonia, parts of New Zealand and even places in northern Europe.
For me, worst climate regions would be the extremes of heat, cold and dry. Precipitation I enjoy.
No, not even close. Seattle has fantastic summers. I'd say most people would agree with that.
He is just a hater, I don't even take him seriously. Notice how he said the Seattle area? So the Vancouver or Portland or Olympia area don't have the most depressing climate. Just the Seattle area .
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. Just the Seattle area 
