[Rick Lee]

I just spent a long weekend there and I hope to never return. IMHO, Seattle traffic is every bit as bad as LA or DC.

While walking around Pike's Place on Friday, the produce there was at least 25% more than anything I've seen even in the gourmet stores in Phoenix. Gas was about $.35 more per gallon than here. The other night we stayed at some friends' house near Belliingham. It was a $750k house, which might have brought that much in a nice neighborhood in NoVA and maybe half that much in Phoenix. I left Anancortes yesterday and it took 45 min. to get to the 5 - a mere 20 miles away. From there to the airport was almost three hours to go about 100 miles. I could not believe the traffic. Just wow. I could never live there, even if I worked from home.