[Stoat]

Oh, so is the surliness usual in Seattle? I noticed when I visited earlier this year, but I though I was just marked as a tourist or just unlucky.

If you're identified as being Conservative, yes...count on surliness and more...much more.  Don't park your car in King County with a Republican bumper sticker on it and expect to find it unscathed upon your return, and don't put a Republican yard sign in front of your house around election times unless you like cleaning egg remnants off of your porch and windows.

If you can avoid political conversations (hard to do, as for many on the Left, politics is their religion) then it's usually not any worse or better than anyplace else.

As to my post referencing surliness earlier, I was expressing that sentiment in the context of the staff at Borrachini's being mainly hood-rats.

[correctthought]

Thanks guys,

It was one of the cities my wife and I were thinking of relocating to get out of NYC.

I was wondering if I was being unfair. Anyway, I think we like Vancouver (WA) better.

Thanks again.