<p>^^^ I heard it rains a LOT in Seattle. I heard it rains a lot in Washington—period. Sounds like a very depressing place. lol.</p>
<p>Go Red Sox, Patriots, Bruins, Celtics, and Boston College Eagles! </p>
<p>haha I love MA sports teams.</p>
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<p>Common mistake… it actually rains more in NYC and Boston, just to name a few.</p>
<p>^^ Oh wow. I guess I’m mistaken. I wouldn’t know anyways, I’m on the East Coast. :)</p>
<p>While I may love MA, I do NOT like the Red Sox! Yankees rule!</p>
<p>Interesting, look at this list of wettest U.S. cities from [Study</a> Reveals Top 10 Wettest U.S. Cities | LiveScience](<a href=“http://www.livescience.com/environment/070518_rainy_cities.html]Study”>Study Reveals Top 10 Wettest U.S. Cities | Live Science)</p>
<pre><code>* Mobile, Alabama–67 inches average annual rainfall; 59 average annual rainy days
- Pensacola, Florida–65 inches average annual rainfall; 56 average annual rainy days
- New Orleans, Louisiana–64 inches average annual rainfall; 59 average annual rainy days
- West Palm Beach, Florida–63 inches average annual rainfall; 58 average annual rainy days
- Lafayette, Louisiana–62 inches average annual rainfall; 55 average annual rainy days
- Baton Rouge, Louisiana–62 inches average annual rainfall; 56 average annual rainy days
- Miami, Florida–62 inches average annual rainfall; 57 average annual rainy days
- Port Arthur, Texas–61 inches average annual rainfall; 51 average annual rainy days
- Tallahassee, Florida–61 inches average annual rainfall; 56 average annual rainy days
- Lake Charles, Louisiana–58 inches average annual rainfall; 50 average annual rainy days
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<p>I would not have thought that Mobile would get the most rainfall annually.</p>
<p>Seattle winters are cloudy and drizzley (is that even a word?) pretty much every day. Huge rainfall events don’t happen very often</p>
<p>i know in houston and probably in all those other southern cities that the bulk of the rainfall comes in huge torrential downpours or hurricanes etc. whereas seattle gets the precipitation spread out in dreary slight showers. </p>
<p>according to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration Seattle has 71 sunny days per year on average, while boston and NYC both have around 100 </p>
<p>[World</a> Facts and Figures - Weather Facts and Statistics](<a href=“http://www.worldfactsandfigures.com/weatherfacts/numbersunny_city_desc.php]World”>http://www.worldfactsandfigures.com/weatherfacts/numbersunny_city_desc.php)</p>
<p>Pyroza: Now THAT seems depressing.</p>
<p>well i live in north jersey. so it’s really not that special here. NJ is mostly suburban. we’ve got about 100 gangsters(and 10000 wannabe gangsters). plenty of pseudo-intellectuals and ■■■■■■■ in the city. i’d say we’re stressed out here, but i’m positive that west coasters just pretend not to be stressed because that’s the cool thing to do.</p>
<p>i’ve been to the other regions of the country. the only key difference is that we walk a hell of a lot faster here, and are more likely to tell strangers to go **** themselves.</p>
<p>^^ lol. spoken by a true Joisey guy</p>
<p>i’m a male.</p>
<p>i’ve lived in pennsylvania pretty much my entire life. other than the heavy concentration of conservatives and religious bigots, it’s ok…i guess. i’m not a fan of the cold winters, though. also, the roads suck. but it’s relatively close to nyc, which (almost) makes up for the other stuff.</p>
<p>^do you want to get out of your state for college?</p>
<p>"AMAZING. we have all four seasons, which i absolutely love. sweet beaches here as well. nyc is one of the best places in the world, IMO. i especially love my location (cue jersey haters), i love being half an hour away from nyc. philadelphia is about a two hour drive. (poconos about an hour). and going down the shore on the parkway takes about an hour (unless you wanna go to AC, or something)</p>
<p>and then there new england, a whole different story. i’ve only visited around there, so i don’t know much, i do plan on attending college there, though (maybe).</p>
<p>i love everything … "</p>
<p>Well smilemyonly forgot to include the fact that it smells, you can’t pump your own gas, extremely wealthy neighborhoods can be found minutes from ghettos, and a high percentage of people in New Jersey are insanely materialistic and insufferable.</p>
<p>:)</p>
<p>There’s a reason New Jersey kids bolt for college.</p>
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<p>Lol, that’s pretty funny!
Actually, I started liking those teams when I was like 5 or 6, so I geniunely love those teams. Or a cretified Boston hater 
BTW, starting out liking these teams, I was a band wagon fan haha. </p>
<p>It’s just that I don’t remember watching another baseball team other than the Yanks when I was little. Since they got all of the media’s attention, games were on TV, and my dad watched them with me, I just gravitated towards them. </p>
<p>Lakers, I was just hopping on the bandwagon, but have loved Kobe and Shaq (haha, strange nowadays) my entire sports-viewing life. I naturally hated their rivals (well, Shaq and Kobe are rivals now lol), and I have been huge on Peyton his entire career. </p>
<p>He could go to basically any team in the NFL (excluding Patriots lol), and I’ll like that team. I’m scared for the future of the Colts, just because they is no other franchise player to replace Peyton in 5 years on the roster. I mean there is still time, but I imagine a major drop-off as soon as he retires. </p>
<p>The same way I starting loving these teams I began to love Nascar and Jeff Gordon: he had the coolest paint job :D</p>
<p>Ok, I’ll go through my area now.</p>
<p>Advantages:
- No dangerous weather. No hurricanes. No tornadoes. No earthquakes. No wildfires. Nothing dangerous. An 18 inch snowstorm every few years but that isn’t dangerous. No school!
- Warm ocean.
- Seafood is top notch in Baltimore and most of the East Coast. We have the Chesapeake Bay which is awesome. Crabs, etc.
- Great food in general in the Northeast. You have the combination of many cultures through years of immigration which creates great food.<br>
- All of the history is on the East Coast.
- I am 40 minutes from D.C. 1.5 hours from Philly. 3.5 hours from NY. 8 hours from Boston. 8 hours from Charlotte. 3 hours from Richmond. Close to everything.
- Strong regional ties and pride. New York is 4 or so hours from Boston. They are nothing alike. Baltimore is 40 minutes from D.C. and we are clearly separate cities. Where as in same areas of the country (Dallas-Ft. Worth for example) they are extremely similar. We also all hate New Jersey and Delaware (Traffic). Sports are great as well.
- We run the country. The government. The financial capitol of the world. Businesses. News. CNN, CBS, NBC, FOX, etc. I couldn’t imagine living away from everything.
- I never have to worry about playing with time zones in my head. (And when the time is 3 hours behind on a website I always assume the website is messed up or something before realizing it is on the West Coast.) Yes, we are egocentric. And we love it.
- This is pretty much irrelevant but if the U.S. was ever invaded us East Coasters would probably feel pretty damn safe.
- Awesome states. We are wealthy highly educated states. We are diverse.<br>
- My particular state, Maryland, is a top 5 state. We often get overlooked due to our geographical size but we are right up there with the very best. We are America in miniature. Mountains, beaches, suburbs, ghettos, highly educated, hillbillies (Western Maryland), and rednecks (Eastern Shore). We have the countries’ best public schools. We have the highest median income. And we have a higher percentage of government jobs than any other state which means we should always be rich. We have the Baltimore ghettos and some rough areas right near D.C. but other than that we are mostly well off suburbs.
- The entire Northeast is blue. :)</p>
<p>Negatives: (I can’t think of many)
- The East Coast is not as naturally beautiful as the West.
- This may seem funny but we will always be at a disadvantage in sports like baseball and tennis because we cannot play year round. </p>
<p>I’ll add more as I think of it.</p>
<p>^And the Yankees are not the most prolific team in the history of the MLB? Just kdding, good list I must say. I don’t picture myself living away from the East Coast for all of the reasons you mentioned and everybody else’s.</p>
<p>"I am feeling pretty stupid for taking all the schools in the NE off my college list because I thought it would be “boring”</p>
<p>HAHA what an idiot</p>
<p>I thought that since the population was declining in the NE that people were trying to get away. Why do you think ppl are leaving?"</p>
<p>I personally feel New England is the worst part of the East Coast. Most of this has to do with the people. Talk about pretentious. They are also fairly racist and less diverse than other parts in the Northeast. It gets too cold IMO. It is dreary a lot. Boston is also the worst major city on the East Coast simply because the people are unbearable. I mean it’s not an awful area but history is really the only thing it has going for it. Maine is very beautiful as is Vermont and New Hampshire. I’ve never liked Mass. And Rhode Island is run by the mafia FWIW.</p>
<p>“^And the Yankees are not the most prolific team in the history of the MLB? Just kdding, good list I must say. I don’t picture myself living away from the East Coast for all of the erasons you mentioned and everybody else’s.”</p>
<p>Yeah I was talking about youth and high school baseball.</p>