Re:California's skyrocketing housing costs, taxes prompt exo...
by WalterBright on Thursday June 23, 2016 @01:38PM
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I like the rain in Seattle. It makes things peaceful, and the wet air smells good. (I grew up in Arizona, where 367 days of clear blue sky gets a bit boring <g>.)
Re:California's skyrocketing housing costs, taxes prompt exo...
by rconti on Thursday June 23, 2016 @02:14PM
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After about 10 years here in CA, I started liking the rain too. Now I love it when it rains. I just hated the way unpredictable weather (==rain) meant you could never plan an outdoor activity in the PNW without the decent possibility of it getting rained on. It limited my enjoyment of the "great outdoors". But in a larger sense, my (mood-related) gripe was with the grey, not the rain itself.
Re:California's skyrocketing housing costs, taxes prompt exo...
by WalterBright on Thursday June 23, 2016 @05:12PM
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I do miss the Arizona sunsets, though. And the electric storms in Kansas - what a show!
I didn't find housing costs to be that far out of whack with the increased salary when I moved to the Bay Area, though.
And I found the soul crushingly bad traffic at the time to be worse in Seattle than in the Bay. My #1 reason was the weather, though. I just couldn't take the lack of sunshine. My mood changed so much when I moved down here. I'm sure it doesn't bother some people, and more power to them. I really miss the northwest when I visit. It reminds me of what I've missed out on, things have changed so much. Then again, I would have missed out on things that happened down here. And I've missed out on everything that happened in Omaha and Denver and...