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Should I move to Seattle? It's a really hot location to live these days.
The grunge rock phenomena died in the 1990s, so your style of dress wouldn't fit in there
today.
Seattle has a fantastic intellectual culture in its coffee houses.
You can enjoy the same environment in any university coffee house or startup incubator
or co-working location today - and get the same coffee if you buy Seattle's Best.
Seattle is as cool as San Francisco, but with a more affordable standard of living.
Seattle is still really expensive relative to other parts of the country not on the East
and West coasts. It only looks affordable, but it doesn't have as many jobs as SF.
Boeing is based there. Microsoft and Amazon are two of their major employers.
Microsoft also has offices in Dallas while Amazon has a distribution center there, both
located in a much cheaper place to live. And far drier, whereas Seattle gets rain about
200 days a year.
Starbucks is a major employer.
If you want to work for Starbucks, go down to the street corner and apply.
You're underwhelmed.
The primary sources of jobs in the Northwest like logging and mining are waning. Technology
startups and bio-tech are centered in California, not Washington.
Seattle is one of the greenest cities to live in.
Have you been reading Ecotopia? The whole Northwest gets the green certification from
all their hydroelectric dams, while their forests are richer simply because the area
was one of the last ones settled in North America.
Seattle is consistently ranked as a great place to live.
It is also a very lonely place, and it is so bad that they call it the "Seattle Freeze".
You're giving this idea the cold shoulder.
You can move where you want to move, but you're not moving me to support relocating across
the country on a vague idea of "coolness".