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No state income tax has to be a big advantage too. However the rain and lack of sun kills me. I could handle year round rain if it meant it's at least sunny a

No state income tax has to be a big advantage too. However the rain and lack of sun kills me. I could handle year round rain if it meant it's at least sunny a lot too. It would suck, but personally the lack of sun affects my mood too much. Otherwise especially with the no state income tax, if I'm making pretty good bank, and moving isn't an issue, moving to Seattle would be a top choice. Instead, the people who do move for tax reasons have almost all moved to Florida/Miami. Two to Austin and one to Vegas.

Splines 9y ago
There's certainly less sun in Seattle, but it's not too bad: https://www.currentresults.com/Weather/Washington/annual-days-of-sunshine.php https://www.currentresults.com/Weather/Washington/annual-day... SF has about 60 days more of sun per year: https://www.currentresults.com/Weather/California/annual-days-of-sunshine.php https://www.currentresults.com/Weather/California/annual-day... Personally, I find the weather quite nice in the PNW. The traffic though... it's really the worst. Traffic is constantly bad during business hours.
- skinnymuch 9y ago
  Does it depend on where you are in the Pacific Northwest for sun? Like is it consistent with the location of the city? I'm wondering how much sun Portland and Vancouver get. Yeah it isn't too bad. But I get seasonal depression on top of issues already. So it would be hard for me personally. Weather is great though.
  - Splines 9y ago
    From what I've observed, Vancouver weather is closely correlated to Seattle weather (it's fairly close to Seattle). I haven't actually compared the data though. Similarly, I would imagine that weather in Portland is quite different than the Seattle/Vancouver area. The entire King County area experiences the same weather - Lake Washington probably influences things, but anecdotally I haven't heard anything like "location foo gets more rain than location bar". Generally, the weather is Seattle is heavily influenced by Puget Sound and the rain shadow east of the Olympic Peninsula (parts on the west side of the Olympic Peninsula are actually classified as rainforest). So we get less rain than you would think and it's fairly moderate.

Splines 9y ago

There's certainly less sun in Seattle, but it's not too bad: https://www.currentresults.com/Weather/Washington/annual-days-of-sunshine.php https://www.currentresults.com/Weather/Washington/annual-day... SF has about 60 days more of sun per year: https://www.currentresults.com/Weather/California/annual-days-of-sunshine.php https://www.currentresults.com/Weather/California/annual-day... Personally, I find the weather quite nice in the PNW. The traffic though... it's really the worst. Traffic is constantly bad during business hours.

skinnymuch 9y ago
Does it depend on where you are in the Pacific Northwest for sun? Like is it consistent with the location of the city? I'm wondering how much sun Portland and Vancouver get. Yeah it isn't too bad. But I get seasonal depression on top of issues already. So it would be hard for me personally. Weather is great though.
- Splines 9y ago
  From what I've observed, Vancouver weather is closely correlated to Seattle weather (it's fairly close to Seattle). I haven't actually compared the data though. Similarly, I would imagine that weather in Portland is quite different than the Seattle/Vancouver area. The entire King County area experiences the same weather - Lake Washington probably influences things, but anecdotally I haven't heard anything like "location foo gets more rain than location bar". Generally, the weather is Seattle is heavily influenced by Puget Sound and the rain shadow east of the Olympic Peninsula (parts on the west side of the Olympic Peninsula are actually classified as rainforest). So we get less rain than you would think and it's fairly moderate.