I have pretty broad personal experience in the USA and globally. I also have the experience of talking about this with tons of other transplants to Seattle, as

I have pretty broad personal experience in the USA and globally. I also have the experience of talking about this with tons of other transplants to Seattle, as well as disgruntled locals, and reading a lot about it. Not much disagreement on this one - Seattle has deep issues with passive aggression and false niceties. http://www.google.com/search?sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8&q=seattle+passive+aggressive http://www.google.com/search?sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8&#3...