Show no quarter!

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[Poll #1417382]Duke it out in the comments. Try to change each other's minds. Try to make up our minds. This is a public post, so get other people involved. Pull no punches (except at each other's privacy).

Bring it on.

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[avhn.livejournal.com]

Seattle is awesome and there are lots of things to see and do. We have two mountain ranges, lots of lakes, and an ocean, so that all pretty much wins. Decent climbing from what I've heard (although I don't climb - but two kids from my HS climbed competitively.) There's tons of hiking around, which is always fun.

We have a pretty awesome pride celebration every year, plus folklife (which you've seen) and bumbershoot (similar to folklife but bigger/costs money to get in/ bigger named bands... worth going to once, anyway.) Pike place market rocks, as do most of the local farmer's markets. They probably won't be quite as convenient as in SD, but they're not bad. There's the Burke Gilman, which provides some biking access, and the town is generally reasonably bike friendly. Traffic isn't great, but it isn't horrible either, and when it's not rush hour it's generally completely fine.

People are generally pretty friendly in my experience; most people hold doors open and such, which makes a big difference to me.

Downsides: taxes/living expenses are pretty high (I think they are in Boston as well), and we do get a lot of rain in the winter (which I like, but not everyone does.) Usually it doesn't snow like crazy... hopefully it doesn't do that again, so transport isn't too much of an issue in the winter. There is reasonable access to snow in the mountains, though (it's about an hour/hour and a half drive), so it's not too bad if you're craving snow ^^

Also there are awesome people. But you know that.

[ladydrakaina.livejournal.com]

And there's a renn faire in August, and Faerieworlds is nearby, and Sooj visits Seattle more often! And, I'm gonna second the awesome people comment, many of whom are very excited that you are coming to Faerieworlds this year :)
Also many yarn and tea stores to tempt a Frances...

[avhn.livejournal.com]

Here is list of a bunch of the yarn stores and a review from the 2008 local yarn store tour! http://smallsmallfaery.livejournal.com/6301.html The website for the tour itself seems to be down, but hopefully will come back soon.