It's really cold and wet all the time. Non-compete agreements are valid so prepare to be screwed over if you change jobs. You don't have the California code on your side if you want to do a side project-- it will be owned by your employer. Amazon will work you like a rented mule and that bald guy in charge is creepy as fuck. Traffic in Seattle is worse than the Bay Area (yes really). They can't expand I-95 because they made the decision to tunnel it through a building (long story)

I've actually worked at Amazon in the past. My experience wasn't that bad. And I'm a actually a Seattle native! For some reason, the traffic there never really bothered me.

> They can't expand I-95 because they made the decision to tunnel it through a building (long story)

Expanding highways makes traffic worse.

Expanding highways makes traffic acceptable for more people (no change or slight dip in latency, but more throughput) which increases housing supply.

No income tax + legal weed everywhere + alcohol in grocery stores + liberal gun laws + you can pump your own damn gas.

Seattle would also get hit hard in the same big earthquake. See the same article above.

Funny thing. I remember reading about this a while back. There were particular regions in Seattle that would be unaffected. I'm not sure how accurately the predicted boundaries were, but I remember my apartment being 10 feet away from the boundary, in the unaffected area. My company, though, was on the other side. In essence, I was exempt from danger for half of the day during weekdays, and a full day during weekends.