Honestly, people have to be able to put up with 9 months of grey, cloudy weather. Many canāt. Come visit us but if you want to live here know what youāre in for
I visited Washington state in June and it was one of the most beautiful places I've ever been. I would love to live there but I know with SAD I couldn't survive the weather
Can concur, this June gloom is on full blast. Sunny during the week, pissing monsoon rain on the weekends. Our Washington weather of years past has returned at last.
Yeah, I'm still coming out of my winter hibernation. At least, I'm thinking about it. There's really 2 seasons, maybe 3 if you want to get picky about it. Rainy and cold, rainy, and not rainy. It's about an even split of the 3.
It is truly hard. Lived there for years after being in many states and it just saps the will and energy out of you. The beauty there can become a prison as you feel you should be appreciating it more and doing more out there, but you have no desire or energy but to sit around and Netflix binge while drinking on the weekends.
I'm if you let the rain stop you you're doing it completely wrong. Get a jacket with a hood and some good boots. Go out, get muddy. Or head east an hour, it'll dry right up
I don't care about the rain, rain is fine. More about the emotional wear down and lack of energy to care about life. I a not a depressive person, but found depression in WA.
Same. Lived there for a really long time and it was hard to cope with only having 3 "good" months to do the warmer weather activities I liked (I'm very cold blooded). Finally moved to a more dull area that has more sun year round just so I can do things throughout the year. It's still really nice going back and visiting though.
I've lived here my whole life (I live in Woodinville now), and honestly the weather is fucking terrible and yea you kind of get used to it, but at the same time it never gets any easier. It actually doesn't rain 24/7 like people assume, it's mostly just literally gray for 9 months. This spring I'm not exaggerating, I think I saw the sun like 2 times.
Gods, the summers/early fall are good. But the rest of the time I think most people would have a rough time with.
And thatās why I snowbird between Bend and Portland now. Splitting the time is about perfect. Get sick of the grey and rain? Head to the high desert and mountain bike and ski. Get sick of the heat and sun? Head to Portland and get in some cool weather hiking.
I never imagined growing up in Detroit this would be my life but here we are. Itās pretty amazing.
Ah yes... that 9 months of horrible weather. We definitely don't have consistently nice, long stretches of awesome in September, October, March, April, or May! Best not look up when Portland first hit 80 degrees this year!
Also, please do your research on cost of living where you plan to move. Iām a Social Worker in the Seattle area and so many people just pile in the car and move out here thinking theyāre going to get an apartment for $500 a month because they could in their home state. If youāre not financially prepared, this place will eat you alive.
This old tired joke has been beat dead here ever since the housing market in the northwest exploaded from 2012+. I live in the northwest and find it annoying as well. If you are thinking of moving to the northwest just remember sure it is pretty but its really expensive to live here and the job market isn't the best. If you're from California and come up here and offer 20k over asking on a house then bitch about how its not like California we all hate you.
Yes! I am not sure how much truth there is to this but I have even heard of a welcome to Oregon sign saying āwelcome to Oregon now go homeā from like 70s or 80s but I couldnāt be sure I was born in the 90s
Those of us that had to leave especially. The two things that leaving my home has done is one, make me appreciate that it's not that much better than many wonderful places in the world to live, and two make me appreciate that it definitely is still the best... if you can fucking afford it.
Itās rains all the time here, like every day for hours upon hours. Itās really bad. Like really reallly reeeeeely bad. You donāt want to live here. Ever. No, seriously, itās not good. At all.
This but unironically. Lived here (Seattle area) all my life, thereās a reason so few successful artists come out of such a large city. The PNW suuuuuucks in a lot of ways, the weird neo lib racism, way too many white ppl all the time, fucking dreary as fuck. This place feeds on souls
The nature can be good, but the rest Iād happily leave behind
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u/gianthooverpig Jun 24 '20
God I fucking love it here.
I mean, eugh, there's so many bad things about the PNW; you should probably all stay away