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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Galethorn" data-source="post: 2347068" data-attributes="member: 7888">Washington State: Half temperate rainforest, half inhospitable desert in which only brave fools and vicious mutants live (with lots of apples around the only river that goes through said desert). Surprisingly, we don't really get all that much rain in the Seattle area, but everybody seems to get the idea that it's always rainy up here. To tell the truth, we've been having uncomfortably warm, dry, california-like summers for the last several years.Culturally, we're...well, very diverse. I live on an island of yuppies and former hippies, right between the conservative military-family cluster around Bremerton, and the somewhat more mixed population of the Seattle/Tacoma area.As for the food...well, we don't have anything 'local' really, unless you count salmon, but it's pretty much limited to special occasions, being so expensive and all. As a state composed entirely of 'immigrants' from other states (since we didn't really get populated until around a hundred years ago), we've got food from all over the rest of the country--and world--of varying quality.In terms of vistas, I think we've got it pretty good; in the Seattle area, we've got the Cascade Mountains (including Mt. Ranier) on one side, the Olympics on the other, and Puget Sound right down the middle. In other parts of the state, we've got some very, very dense forest, the Columbia River (and its associated cataracts, islands, and gorges), and the deserts of Eastern Washington.All in all, only the second best state/region I've been to in my life (I much prefer British Columbia); it's ahead of all of California, all of Mexico, all of Oregon, and...well, I don't travel much, but I know I wouldn't like the climate in most of the rest of the country...I particularly dislike places where it gets much over 80 degrees more than a few times a year.</blockquote>

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