[Superman]

It is true that Seattle has a terrible and worsening transportation infrastructure. Joe Taxpayer in Washington State has swallowed, hook line and sinker, the fantasy that they should be getting tax cuts at the same time as government services are increased. So, it's going to get much worse before it gets better. And it's not very fun now. Some days I spend, no kidding, fifty miles in first gear with my foot on the clutch. If I don't get out of here until mid-afternoon on Friday, it's probably going to take me three hours to get home. That's about seventy miles.

But yeah, the PNW is a bit like Heaven, and I can confidently recommend Portland or Eugene. There are many many happy people in both those cities. But Eugene is quite small comparatively. You cannot buy a bad cup of Jo here, and you have to look hard for a weak beer. And more liberal free rags than you can shake a stick at. Five national parks, many national forests, volcanos, thousands of fresh water lakes and streams, thousands of miles of hiking trails including the revered Pacific Crest Trail and many many many others, hundreds of miles of rugged coastline, much of which is totally undeveloped and inaccessible except by foot (Olympic National Park coastal trail), the nation's busiest seafood port (there's a lot of critters in our waters and especially North near Alaska), the finest oysters on the planet by far and away (Hood Canal).....the list goes on. PM me for a beer meeting and discussion, if you wish.