More rain yes, but that rain comes down in heavy storms instead of miserable perma-drizzle and mist. This means even days with a forecast for rain will often be sunny until the front rolls through.

Plus the storms are really awesome. When I lived in SF I really missed the massive thunderstorms in Georgia. I only saw lightning 1 or 2 times in SF.

same. almost complete lack of thunderstorms on the west coast kinda bummed me out when I lived there. spring/summer storms in the south rock

Sunny and oppressively humid and hot.

It's all relative. Atlanta is refreshingly cool compared to cities located closer to the gulf coast.

With massive swings in barometric pressure. Atlanta is great for many things but I hate the weather here.

The weather is how you get all the trees, though. It's impressive to look at other cities' satellite maps and see a concrete jungle, then look at Atlanta and see it (or the suburban ITP parts anyway) looks more like a forest.

Take it from people who have lived in Seattle, it’s not the amount of rainfall. In the winter months you can literally go weeks without seeing clear skies.

Light therapy and vitamin D supplements are essential in the PNW. They aren’t a replacement for the sun, but they can make it bearable to be without it.

> Honestly unless OP goes to California, where the housing situation is much worse, or middle of nowhere like Nevada, they're going to be much wetter

A lot of the drier parts of California, if you aren't tied to the LA Basin because you need local work, don't have as much of a housing problem, though. (That's also true of a lot of the wetter parts that you might chose to live in, if you aren't dependent on local work, too., though the wetter places that's true of often aren't the best places for the affordable, reliable high-speed internet you want for remote work.)

If you’ve got a Seattle tech salary, and want a dry location, you can find plenty of places in California where you can live like a king. Though I suspect you could as well or better, in that regard just by moving to Eastern Washington instead of Seattle.

US States are often neither climatically nor economically homogenous.

You can live like a king in Hanford on a tech salary, except you'd be like the king of Somalia. Not sure if that's the crown I want to wear. You're still paying $400k for a house but now you need private schooling and you have a 3-hour drive to the nearest thing that even resembles culture.