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[quote=Anonymous]This is all very interesting to me.  I lived in Seattle for two years, my DH for six.  Granted, this was back in the 90s when a lot of newcomers were just starting to come to Seattle - to work at Microsoft and the other tech companies.  DH worked for MS for those six years.  I've lived in eight cities in the US - east coast, west coast, midwest, southwest, and southeast!  I found the people in Seattle super friendly.  In fact I used to marvel at how laid back and friendly the people who worked in my industry were in Seattle compared to other cities.  People were very accessible with the notable exception of the super brilliant techies that DH worked with who were socially awkward and couldn't talk about anything other than technology or science fiction!  But they were from all over the world - not just the NW.

The drivers were painfully polite to the point I thought everyone drove way too slow and stopped to let everyone in all the time!  Maybe that's changed now, but we go back to visit friends and relatives there once a year and I haven't noticed rude drivers.

The one group of people that the natives held a lot of contempt for in the 90s were Californians.  So many were moving there and the natives thought they were driving up the cost of living and pricing them out of housing market.  They would openly remind Californians that Interstate 5 ran south too.

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