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To: BurbankKarl
Hey! Come on in all you holdouts, the water is fine.

Made the same decision to move about two years ago (moved to Vancouver from Oregon and my partner moved out of the Bay area) and we have experienced nothing but positive results.

No state income tax, reasonable worker's comp rates, no capital gains tax and no corporate income tax....great schools..etc.
7 posted on 10/06/2003 3:46:36 PM PDT by kimoajax
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To: kimoajax
No state income tax, reasonable worker's comp rates, no capital gains tax and no corporate income tax....great schools..etc.

Stop rubbing it in.

11 posted on 10/06/2003 4:03:13 PM PDT by Saundra Duffy (For victory & freedom!!!)
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To: kimoajax
But it's the Couv!
12 posted on 10/06/2003 4:12:51 PM PDT by ThreeYearLurker
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To: kimoajax; Libertina
Hey! Come on in all you holdouts, the water is fine.
Made the same decision to move about two years ago (moved to Vancouver from Oregon and my partner moved out of the Bay area) and we have experienced nothing but positive results.
No state income tax, reasonable worker's comp rates, no capital gains tax and no corporate income tax....great schools..etc.

We'd love to have enough conservatives, even from California, move up here in the Pacific Northwet to shift the political balance here in The Peoples' Soviet of Washington, aka The Evergreed State, please understand that there are some downsides.

The populous part of the state (Western Washington) has a massive infestation of liberals. This has a continuing negative effect; many of the schools, for example, are good at teaching your children how to don condoms, worship Gaia, and protest anything and anybody to the right of Lenin.

The climate (of Wettern Washington) may be a shock to Californians, too. In California there is (infrequently), "rain." In Washington we have mist, sprinkle, drip, drizzle, occasional rain, scattered rain, frequent rain, heavy rain, showers, downpours, to name a few. Oh yes, we have rain too. And in anything less than a downpour you walk, not run. Otherwise we'll know you for a Californian in an instant. And no sissy umbrellas, either. Those are for tourists and Californians. (Goretex shells are acceptable, however, and if the precipitation is heavy enough you're allowed to put the hood up.)

We also have something called "sun-breaks," but that's for another time.

Then there are the cloudy skies. Forget that "The Bluest Skies You Ever Saw Are In Seattle" song. You can see blue in the skies from time to time, but only in summer. The natural sky colour here is grey. (Or gray, as in "Gray Davis," or is it the other way around? We don't have him, so it's easy to be confused.) But it's not as bad as boring blue; it various from very light grey, almost white, to very dark grey (just before the downpours). It even goes to black, but a much purer black than in California because it doesn't have any stars painting irregular patterns on it.

And then there is winter! No, no blowing snow (we rarely see it, and when we do it shuts everything down) and igloos, polar bears stalking the landscape. Think of a long, cool, damp, night of drizzle (there's that word again). Water. You get up and go to work in it, you leave work and drive home in it. Water... cool, clear water... (oops, sorry, wrong song).

But really, winters can be long and dark here and a lot of people from California find it's not for them and move back. OTOH, there are ways to counter it. Among them: Plenty of light in the home and the workplace, get involved, get connected, get to know your fellow local FReepers.

14 posted on 10/06/2003 6:17:20 PM PDT by Eala (If used-car salesmen misrepresented cars the way the press does truth, they'd be jailed.)
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