# I am moving to Seattle! See ya Los Angeles **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [August 14, 2006, 2:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-am-moving-to-seattle-see-ya-los-angeles/368621 "2006-08-14T02:55:27Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 11\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Jodi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/7feea3/32.png) [@Jodi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jodi)\ **Post date:** [August 15, 2006, 3:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-am-moving-to-seattle-see-ya-los-angeles/368621/21 "2006-08-15T03:04:30Z")
Dang, I’ve been screwing up links lately. [Here](http://www.seattle.world-guides.com/seattle_maps.html) is the map. You have a scroll down a bit to see it. ---
**Author:** ![NAF1138](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/naf1138/32/3245_2.png) [@NAF1138](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/NAF1138)\ **Post date:** [August 15, 2006, 7:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-am-moving-to-seattle-see-ya-los-angeles/368621/22 "2006-08-15T19:20:48Z")
**Jodi** thanks so much for that post, its really good info and will help me out a whole lot. [QUOTE=Jodi] Ride a ferry for me. 🙂 [/QUOTE] Will do! ---
**Author:** ![Shalmanese](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/45deac/32.png) [@Shalmanese](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shalmanese)\ **Post date:** [August 15, 2006, 8:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-am-moving-to-seattle-see-ya-los-angeles/368621/23 "2006-08-15T20:09:43Z")
Hey cool, I’m moving to Seattle as well in September to start grad school. ---
**Author:** ![Khadaji](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/9e8a1a/32.png) [@Khadaji](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Khadaji)\ **Post date:** [August 15, 2006, 8:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-am-moving-to-seattle-see-ya-los-angeles/368621/24 "2006-08-15T20:33:41Z")
Wishing you luck and joy in your new home. ---
**Author:** ![Pork\_Rind](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pork_rind/32/111_2.png) [@Pork\_Rind](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Pork_Rind)\ **Post date:** [August 15, 2006, 9:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-am-moving-to-seattle-see-ya-los-angeles/368621/25 "2006-08-15T21:06:33Z")
[QUOTE=NAF1138] We actually picked November on purpose for just that reason, we figure we want to get the worst of the weather right up front so we know what we are dealing with. [/QUOTE] [movie villain]Ha ha ha ha ha[/movie villain] November ‘the worst’? ---
**Author:** ![NAF1138](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/naf1138/32/3245_2.png) [@NAF1138](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/NAF1138)\ **Post date:** [August 15, 2006, 10:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-am-moving-to-seattle-see-ya-los-angeles/368621/26 "2006-08-15T22:54:25Z")
[QUOTE=Pork Rind] [movie villain]Ha ha ha ha ha[/movie villain] November ‘the worst’? [/QUOTE] We wanted to be there for the start of the bad weather…you sayin we’re getting there early or late? ---
**Author:** ![amarinth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/3be4f8/32.png) [@amarinth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/amarinth)\ **Post date:** [August 16, 2006, 2:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-am-moving-to-seattle-see-ya-los-angeles/368621/27 "2006-08-16T02:14:10Z")
The weather is not going to be bad, not the way that you’re expecting it or used to it. Many other places get hard snows or hard rains or cold snaps or intense dramatic bad weather. There really is none of that. It may snow once, maybe twice. It may rain for a few days. It’ll probably mist a lot. Most likely, nothing big will happen. We’re farther north than Buffalo is - as short as their days get in the winter, ours are even shorter. (Summer makes up for it…) It’s very possible for you to have leave home in the dark and come back home in the dark. And even during the day, it isn’t really light because the sun goes away in November. It comes back every year and other places in the country report seeing it, so it’s probably ok during those 6 or so months - but it doesn’t seem to have any interest in breaking through the cloud cover. So even during the times when it’s technically “day,” it isn’t bright. It isn’t a crisp, clear, cold day (like I’ve seen in upstate NY or New England). It’s gray and it’s dark. And that’s a lot of dark. And the first day of dark isn’t bad - nor is the first week of dark - but the fourth month of dark tends to drive some transplants insane, especially when they find out there’s another three months to go. ---
**Author:** ![Beware\_of\_Doug](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/278dde/32.png) [@Beware\_of\_Doug](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beware_of_Doug)\ **Post date:** [August 16, 2006, 2:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-am-moving-to-seattle-see-ya-los-angeles/368621/28 "2006-08-16T02:21:51Z")
[QUOTE=NAF1138] […] I was thinking about going to Portland. Well the total lack of food and the authoritarian government in the state of Oregon kept me away [/QUOTE] I think there _is_ food in Portland. What there isn’t, for the most part, is employment steady enough to keep you eating it. ---
**Author:** ![NAF1138](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/naf1138/32/3245_2.png) [@NAF1138](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/NAF1138)\ **Post date:** [August 16, 2006, 3:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-am-moving-to-seattle-see-ya-los-angeles/368621/29 "2006-08-16T03:24:40Z")
[QUOTE=amarinth] And the first day of dark isn’t bad - nor is the first week of dark - but the fourth month of dark tends to drive some transplants insane, especially when they find out there’s another three months to go. [/QUOTE] So you’re saying that the sunlamp is more than just a suggestion…its a necessity. Good to know. I haven’t been up there durring the winter months so it is a hard concept to wrap my head around. I have been to Alaska in late September, and I assume it is a similar idea, but I was only there for a week. I’ll get to work on findng a sunlamp for us. **Beware of Doug** Yeah, we really liked Portland a lot, but while a nice place to visit…we didn’t want to live there. Plus I am a theater person by trade, and there are just many fewer theater opportunities in Portland than in Seattle, that was the real clincher for me. ---
**Author:** ![Pork\_Rind](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pork_rind/32/111_2.png) [@Pork\_Rind](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Pork_Rind)\ **Post date:** [August 30, 2006, 4:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-am-moving-to-seattle-see-ya-los-angeles/368621/30 "2006-08-30T04:42:28Z")
[QUOTE=amarinth] And that’s a lot of dark. And the first day of dark isn’t bad - nor is the first week of dark - but the fourth month of dark tends to drive some transplants insane, especially when they find out there’s another three months to go. [/QUOTE] Yesssss. And what also kills are those cold, rainy days in June when it occurs to you the eveybody else has been having summer for a couple of months already… ---
**Author:** ![picunurse](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/7bcc69/32.png) [@picunurse](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/picunurse)\ **Post date:** [August 30, 2006, 7:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-am-moving-to-seattle-see-ya-los-angeles/368621/31 "2006-08-30T07:32:30Z")
[QUOTE=Shalmanese] Hey cool, I’m moving to Seattle as well in September to start grad school. [/QUOTE] We’ll be neighbors. I live just north of the U district. Having worked 12 hour nights forever, I can tell you that Dark is long. In December, it gets dark at about 4:30pm then light at 7:00am. Except for sunrise, I would go for weeks never seeing daylight, since I slept during the day. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-am-moving-to-seattle-see-ya-los-angeles/368621.md?page=1)