Microsoft isn't in Seattle, so...

I'm aware - I worked there. But it's pretty close - certainly not far enough to be oblivious to the ocean

It's a 20 minute drive from Redmond to Seattle.

It's a 3 hour drive from Seattle to the ocean.

I suppose it would depend on what you'd qualify as "the ocean". I lived in Seattle for 4.5 years, and while I don't consider Elliot Bay[1] to be "the ocean" per se, it's pretty close - and you have all the corrosion problems and general exposure to the elements that you'd get, which I think was the original point of the comparison in this thread.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elliott_Bay

Ok someone has never been to Seattle it seems. It's not a 3 hour drive to the ocean.

It's amazing that the drive to the Northern part of the Olympia Peninsula is so long, Bellingham which looks much farther is around a half hour closer.

With minimal traffic, it is: https://tinyurl.com/zbkp89q