> People always complain about the "freeze" but I call bullshit. First, some humor: http://lifeexplained.thecomicseries.com/comics/62/ http://lifeexplained.the

> People always complain about the "freeze" but I call bullshit. First, some humor: http://lifeexplained.thecomicseries.com/comics/62/ http://lifeexplained.thecomicseries.com/comics/62/ Now, some serious (as it was while I lived there, but funny now that I've escaped), all from Seattle newspapers: But the dichotomy most fundamental to our collective civic character is this: Polite but distant. Have a nice day. Somewhere else. [1] Your city is a lovely one, and people here are nice enough when you come into contact with them in such circumstances as a retail transaction or participation in a mutually held-interest group. However, there is an unmistakable coolness exuded by many inhabitants of this city toward people they don't know; it exceeds what I would consider "normal." [2] Seattle public radio: while people here are “open” to new ideas, we’re just near the bottom of the states for being extroverted. Sociologist Jodi O’Brien at Seattle University added that this group relies heavily on digital devices to communicate which means they are losing the ability to simply hang out and talk. “If you email something I don’t like, I can scream at the computer, but I don’t have to interact with you. The more we can do that, the less inclined we are to engage in the messy social world.” [3] Seattle Freeze: Can we blame it on the Norwegians? ...and there is even a meet-up group working to defeat it, the Seattle Anti-Freeze. [4] Turns out that while Seattle has lots of romantic settings and events – the people themselves aren’t thought to be very romantic.[5] In a poll on that same Seattle newspaper blog, 80% of the readers say that the Seattle Freeze is very real and/or awesome. A slideshow of ways of dealing with the freeze agrees more or less with your advice to pick an interest and go from there. [1] http://seattletimes.com/pacificnw/2005/0213/cover.html http://seattletimes.com/pacificnw/2005/0213/cover.html [2] http://blog.seattletimes.nwsource.com/northwestvoices/2009/01/22/the_seattle_freeze.html http://blog.seattletimes.nwsource.com/northwestvoices/2009/0... [3] http://www.kpluwonders.org/content/why-seattle-freeze-so-hard-melt http://www.kpluwonders.org/content/why-seattle-freeze-so-har... [4] http://blogs.seattletimes.com/fyi-guy/2012/12/04/seattle-freeze-can-we-blame-it-on-the-norwegians/ http://blogs.seattletimes.com/fyi-guy/2012/12/04/seattle-fre... [5] http://blog.seattlepi.com/thebigblog/2013/02/12/‘seattle-freeze’-chills-our-story-on-romantic-seattle http://blog.seattlepi.com/thebigblog/2013/02/12/‘seattle-fre...