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That and the horrible weather. If the northwest's weather didn't suck so much, I would never have moved back down to the bay area.
Our summers are glorious :) Don't you get bored with the constant sunshine?
NO
(former Seattleite, and the weather has been the absolute greatest gain from moving away)
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Private health insurance sucks ass in WA, but other than that it does look good :)
Personally I don't want to live in Seattle because of the earthquake risk that nobody is prepared for. See http://discovermagazine.com/2012/extreme-earth/01-big-one-ea... if you don't know what I'm talking about.
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That and the horrible weather. If the northwest's weather didn't suck so much, I would never have moved back down to the bay area.
Our summers are glorious :) Don't you get bored with the constant sunshine?
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It doesn't rain all the time in Seattle, but it rains almost every day most of the year. When I lived in Seattle, I remember some months when the sky was gray 24/7. Crushing, relentless gray. It felt like living inside a concrete dome. :\
No it doesn't. Seattle has some of the best summers anywhere; it's one of the city's best-kept secrets. July and August are gorgeous. The relentless gray of which you speak is true of months like December and January.
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The bad thing about WA state is the tax structure -- no corp or personal income tax (good), but the B&O tax is a gross receipts tax, really complex (it varies by county and by type of business), and has pyramiding (as do all gross receipts taxes) -- it's equivalent to a 12-15% corp income tax for many businesses. If you don't use 2-3 levels of contractors, or have a lot of work done as subassemblies, it should be ok…
Can you expand on why the lack of personal income tax is a good thing? Instead, WA has roughly 10% sales tax which some would say disproportionately taxes the poor.
Another way of saying this is that it's regressive because it's flat, but it's a better tax overall if you could unflatten it.
I am seriously debating why I recently moved from Seattle to SF/Bay... I can't go a week without seeing or hearing something that just rubs it in.
I lived in Seattle for 7.5 years, moved to San Francisco September 2011. My only regret is not doing so sooner. Seattle is a wonderful town (and it really is a big town more than a city) full of wonderful, if slightly insular, people. It's beautiful, there's great food, you can hike and kayak if that's your thing. If you're a developer that doesn't work for Microsoft or Amazon, though, the geek community is definitel…
There's no getting over the fact that Seattle isn't Silicon Valley. But, it's become so clear that Seattle isn't as static as it used to be. So even though it's insular now (and always has been), I just have a gut feeling that Seattle will open up and blossom more. Can you imagine a Seattle with SV's good parts, and none of the bad parts? Or is that just inherently impossible because it is Seattle?
In between the legal weed, fast internet, social entrepreneurship community, and it now being the 'it' place to live and play, it's almost a tossup for me. If there were money in Seattle and the funding climate there not being so stingy, maybe I would've stayed.
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Personally I don't want to live in Seattle because of the earthquake risk that nobody is prepared for. See http://discovermagazine.com/2012/extreme-earth/01-big-one-ea... if you don't know what I'm talking about.
Was that just a way to bring up that earthquake, or do you actually live in fear of natural disasters day to day?
Concern over the possibility of that earthquake happening in my lifetime is one of the reasons why I do not want to return there, or want my children to put down roots there.
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Yep. I have an internship there this summer, and I'll be moving from Calgary, which gets the most hours of sunlight of any city in Canada. Hope the change won't be too jarring/depressing... it was overcast every day when I was there for interviews.
Summers are why you live in Seattle. 80°F, sunny, and beautiful every day (after July 5th)! We get about 16 hours of sunlight on the summer solstice. There are actually cases of people getting SAD from the over abundance of sunlight in the summer ( http://cliffmass.blogspot.com/2012/10/depression-from-too-mu... )