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He forgot to mention that all the rain means you'll stay indoors and do more work.

Heh, not during the summer. Seattle is BEAUTIFUL in the summer, far nicer than anywhere else I've spent a summer - a list which includes New York (where, as a great man once said, "if you are keen to breathe [during the summer] the best plan is to open a window and stick your head in a building."), Haifa, DC, and Massachusetts.

Even more specifically, Softies seem to spend an awful lot of the summer going on hikes and picnics.

Yes, the weather is terrible, stay away. (that's the story we like to tell people in order to keep it from growing too much).

Seattle gets less rain than NY.

True. According to the USGS, New York gets 45.4" of precipitation yearly, while Seattle gets 37.2".

That said, I'd like to find out how to compare the number of days with rain in both places. Seattle gets drizzle. The year I moved here we had 86 days of continuous drizzle and no sun sightings. New York most likely gets its precipitation in the occasional downpour -- not to mention snow -- and probably has more overall sunny days during the winter. (Just a guess, though.)

http://countrystudies.us/united-states/weather/new-york/new-...

http://countrystudies.us/united-states/weather/washington/se...

In Seattle last summer it rained only a few times between May and October, going for stretches of 6 weeks or more with zero precipitation -- dead grass everywhere.

We don't do the drizzle sh*t in New York; we go big. When it rains, it pours. It also doesn't stop us from going outside. We don't care - we've got things to do, places to be.

Way more overcast though. The winters were just too hard for me to bear. I moved to LA and am not looking back.

Yeah, but the other three seasons are longer and absolutely beaaauuuutttiifuull.

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