I am amazed by how many people from Southern California move here and buy a house immediately. Only to scuttle back after the first year. Give it a test run first guys.

Personally I come from a much colder climate than the PNW so I enjoy how mild and lush it is all year. And I find rain to be cozy.

I think it's interesting how much people complain about Seattle, because it's one of the only cities with as little sunshine as… most of Europe.

Every city in the UK has less sunshine than Seattle, for instance.

A lot of Northern Europeans do 4-6 weeks of vacation in Spain/the Mediterranean. When living in Seattle I did not see anything similar to that. Partially due to US culture, geography, and lack of ability to vacation.

it gets dark around 4pm in seattle in the winter

That's definitely true. Lots of people I know here have a hard time with SAD, and Seattle being so far north is exacerbated by how cloudy the winter is.

Though if the winter isn't a dealbreaker, the summer makes up for it by being absolutely gorgeous for a few months almost straight, at least aside from wildfire smoke and a handful of days of unbearable heat.

The smoke sucks but as for heat, I’m not sure you can avoid some hot days anywhere in the US

Yes, though most places in Seattle don't have AC because it's not hot enough often enough, so 90+ here can be more disruptive than 100+ in other places, and 100+ here is dangerous and debilitating.

It is difficult, but we try to travel when it gets bad. Traveling to the east, over the pass helps. Otherwise we fly somewhere.

Personally, I find the amount of violence and crime (all-time high for road rage shootings this year) is more demoralizing than the weather.

Where I live gets about 2.5x as much rain as Seattle, and I consider it a big improvement over the East Coast (of Canada). It's all relative I guess.

I also live somewhere with far more rain than Seattle (US east coast), but we also have 2x the number of sunny days and our summers are much longer.

Rain in and of itself isn't bad if it's balanced out with sun and warmth.