KevinC
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I can totally see that. I hate January/February weather because it’s a lot of gray overcast skies and that drags me down. But come summer, I can go months without seeing rain. July and August average 0.59 and 0.71 inches of precipitation for the month, respectively, and I’m in the “wetter” part of the state. After months of 100 degrees, blue skies, and no clouds… rain sure sounds nice. :)
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When you live in Seattle or Vancouver, winter trips to anywhere with sun become a necessary mental health expense.
It’s why Lake Chelan is so popular with Seattlelites. Just a few hours away, and as they like to say, 300 days of sun.
I don’t mind the gray though. I was born into it. Molded by it. I didn’t see the sun until I was already a man.
I moved to Poulsbo from Austin (and I made the decision to get out of Tx the summer it was over 100 degrees for 90 days straight, no not making that up).
So my take on the sun is a bit different: it could never come out again for the remainder of my life and I’d be super happy. ;)
Not sure why everyone talks about how much it rains here. All I’ve seen for months at this point is what I’m looking at out the window right now: Sun, and more sun.
And rain amount last two months here in supposedly rainy PACNW: 1.4 inches (help me I’m drowning)
Poulsbo is directly in the rainshadow of the Olympics.
The Seattle area weather is complex to forecast because of all the factors. There’s a mountain range directly between the city and the Pacific, but it only stretches about 50 miles. And then there’s the wall that is the Cascade mountains to the east that stretches all the way from Canada to California. There’s a warm water current right off the coast. And thus we get the wonderful Puget Sound Convergence Zone, which has been driving meteorologists crazy for decades.
Poulsbo is relatively dry compared to areas just 20 miles to the east.
I don’t know my sister and BIL moved to Paulsbo about five years ago, from LA. The both love it, and they had no complaints about the weather this year. But didn’t you guys have record rainfall, plus a lot of snow the last few years?
Now, I have to move. There are just too many people here (I kid, I kid).
Where did you go to? It’s funny you phrased it like this- I usually say I moved back to the PNW because it has four seasons. I was born in Seattle, lived here until I was 10, then my family moved to San Diego. I hated it, never truly adjusted, and the biggest reason way was the weather. I feel like the PNW has four distinct (but pretty temperate) seasons. SoCal was pretty much sunny with an average of 70 all the time. There was the part of the year that the average dropped to 60, and the part of the year that it goes up to 80, but past that, it was just always so the same. I hated it. Seattle might be fairly overcast a lot, but you can tell wiinter from spring, from summer, from fall. And we have that week it gets into the 90s, and that one week it snows, but other than that, it’s pretty easy.
I moved to Kansas City, Missouri. It gets hot, it gets really cold, it gets rainy, it gets dry, it can get snowed in, there’s a bit of every kind of weather here. I wish I was closer to some national parks here though. It’s a long drive from here to get to any of those.
I’m mostly just joking about the regions reputation for being suicidal due to rain and being overcast. And yeah we did get snowed in a couple times recently. In fact so much so couple seasons ago I had the power knocked off for days repeatedly and that prompted me to burn a hefty sum for a whole house generator.
Funny you should say that, I continue to perpetuate the myth about rainy all the time in order to dissuade anyone from moving here.
Net: more than anything it’s really nice having four seasons to enjoy. In Tx there are two seasons: 10 months of hot with 2 months of only slightly less hot. SXSW happens to fall in a week when it’s not as hot convincing still more people to move to Austin (and Austin very much does not need more people).
Hey us former Californians are on to that trick. Back in mid 80s, I visited the Microsoft in Jan. It was gorgeous day 60, blue skies. The receptionist made us swear that when went back to California, we would tell everyone that it was rainy and dreary.
I’m warm weather boy so I’m not leaving Hawaii except for feet first. But I 've been really impressed with Paulsbo, lovely neighborhoods, friendly people, and lot less crowded and cheaper than Bainbridge, and Seattle is just ferry ride away.
But don’t worry, as established on the Old World thread no one reads this forum, so your secret is safe.
Cheaper for sure. Bainbridge only has 25,000 residents on the whole island so crowded it isn’t. Hell, Poulsbo is the “big town” we go to shop.
Yeah but there’s only 11k in Poulsbo. We’re the little town that feels big!
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There is a lot of excitement and shouting about this report today:
Honestly, having read it, I can’t quite figure out what is meant to be surprising or revelatory about it. It seems to be affirming that we don’t tax unrealized capital gains and we don’t tax wealth, and as a result many wealthy people get more and more wealthy without actually paying much in the way of taxes. Of course that’s very bad, terrible, but it’s not news, is it? Is there something more that I’m missing?
KevinC
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I think it is for a lot of people. Most people don’t even understand how marginal tax rates work, you know what I mean?
Sure, but I see knowledgeable people on Twitter up in arms about it, reacting like it’s a bombshell of some kind. I really thought / think I must be missing something. Maybe it’s just issue marketing?
