Seattle can completely vary from year to year. Was it last year or the year before that we had summer from March to November? This winter was bad, apparently, but global warming has been good for us. I was so sick of sunny days that year, it was boring. To really enjoy Seattle, you need to like mild weather, no humid sticky weather or freezing weather. But the year we moved here, worst winter ever. It rained for 11 days straight. And I mean nonstop. But it is hard to beat the summers here. We try to take most of them off.
And you know what we don’t have here? Cockroaches, deadly spiders, many bugs at all. Godzilla. King Kong.
I would choose Miami any day of the week. I can’t stand the continuous grey skies of Seattle. NYC is too congested for me. Don’t know anything about LA. I would buy a house on the water in Coral Gables or on one of the Islands in Las Olas in Fort Lauderdalr. Good luck with your decision.
Could this refer to the flashiness in terms of flaunting expensive houses, cars, boats, clothes/fashion, etc. In the wealthy areas? Granted, these might not be in LA city proper, but in nearby areas like Newport Beach.
But that would not apply to the less wealthy areas where people cannot afford such things.
I thought the reference to “plastic people” meant as far as looks. A huge emphasis upon looks, women are very made up, botox, fancy clothing, etc.
In fact, I just got back from LA. In Seattle, we generally have a very natural look, little makeup, casual dress, but many fit people, it is definitely different (and lazier as far as effort to look good). But I got suckered into getting my eyebrows done in LA, (because, “honey, they look just terrible, you have let them go, this will look amazing”). Unfortunately they look painted on, give me an angry look, and they don’t match each other. When I went to the grocery store in LA, I thought holy crap, now I have these painted on eyebrows, everybody is going to be staring at me…but then I realized all the other women had the same painted on eyebrows, so nobody stared.
But back in Seattle, people are looking at me strangely. So I’m covering them with my bangs, and hey, if I tilt my head to the left, they look like they’re straight. Hard to keep your head tilted for long. Looking for huge Jackie O sunglasses to wear in our apparently continuously gray skies of Seattle. :-?
@busdriver11 While I love Seattle, it really is a dreary place despite what you say about the annual rainfall. I’d love to live there except for the lack of sun.
@bevhills I thought the porn industry was moving to Reno (Nevada) because of that bill that passed last year saying that the male “performers” need to wear condoms now.
New York City being congested/crowded? That depends on what you’re used to. Compared to suburban or rural towns, yes.
Compared to some other cities, no way. NYC has nothing on the crowds/congestion in Beijing. And I’ve heard Tokyo during rush hour on their public transit is far worse than what we have here with the subways/LIRR/Metro North.
I think you’d get a different perspective from people who live here. I believe about 47% of our days are actually sunny days. 47% is about the same for cities like Cleveland, Portland, Buffalo. Still not enough, but not constant drizzle/dreary like people seem to think. Sometimes I look at the weather channel that shows the color green over Seattle, once again, however it doesn’t mean it will rain all day, and it doesn’t mean it will rain where you are.
They last a year. I am supposed to come in for a “touch up” in a few weeks, so hopefully they can fix them so they match, and I don’t look pissed off all the time (hmm, though maybe I actually am). It’s just kind of shocking for a low maintenance, low makeup person like me, but maybe the bangs and big sunglasses will hide them. Or maybe I should just make sure my trips are to LA all the time so I fit in!
“Another contributing factor is that Seattle doesn’t have a very uniform distribution of cloudy or rainy days from month to month like Boston, New York, and many other major U.S. cities have. As a rule, it pretty much is cloudy with occasional light drizzles from October through March in Seattle. Then from April through September, Seattle gets almost no rain and from June through September almost no cloudy days.”
I live both in FL (2 1/2 hours from Miami) and NJ (30 min from Manhattan) and my child lives in Seattle. Seattle and NJ are the Practically the same. They both have cloudy dreary winters. It’s Colder/snows in NJ where it rains in Seattle. They both have great summers. It snows on average 3-4 times a year in NJ. It’s isn’t a big deal but it does rain a lot in NJ too. The biggest snowstorm we are having is this week. We haven’t had much snow since winter started.
Florida on the other hand is mostly sunny year round and it’s hot in the summer.
NYC of course. Everything and more is there. And when it isn’t, since you are rich enough, you can go get it. Think our current President.
( Sorry if I am repeating what has already been said. I didn’t read the whole thread as I have been away.)
I just got back from Jamaica. Spent last night in D1’s Manhatten home. H and I traveled with her and her partner. It is winter, so they got away to an all inclusive ( with us.) One stop from JFK. Next weekend they are going sking in Vermont. But D1 has already been skiing n Colorado this season. Last year Colorado and Switzerland. All is so easy to get to from NYC, And when not traveling, there is everything.
We flew a non-stop to Honolulu. Stocked up on food and vino at Costco and are now parked at our beachfront rental. Plenty of non-stops from Seattle to all Hawaiian islands. California is a short flight away, too. As far as skiing goes, it is less than an hour away by car from your waterfront Mercer Island home - I90 will take you there directly. Conveniently, the sports stadiums are just a few miles west. Of course, if you keep driving east, you will end up at Fenway if that’s the team you are rooting for.
So convenient. So nice. I so wish we lived there.
But please. Please. Do not move to Seattle! Stay out of it. It is dreary. It is rainy. We love it to ourselves. Maybe if you all stay away, I will be able to afford a MI house.
Ok, I’ll admit, many of the moms in the vallet line do have boob jobs and Botox, I really, really hope the boob job look is going out of fashion. While I’m not super skinny and surgically enhanced, I do get my eyebrows waxed (not painted on) and I have eyelash extensions… so maybe I’m a little plastic! :-h
