> If you like doing things outside, the weather there is consistently inconvenient for about 10 months out of the year. Within a few years, you learn to just d

> If you like doing things outside, the weather there is consistently inconvenient for about 10 months out of the year. Within a few years, you learn to just do any outdoor activity in the rain unless it's June. And you get very friendly with gore-tex. This was something my family and I never did in Chicago, though that's mainly due to the intensity difference. In a "Seattle drizzle" you'll be fine; in a Chicago thunderstorm, not so much.