It’s rarely super hot or super cold like a lot of places.
You get these ridiculously long summer days that last forever. It’s perfect for athletics and hiking and spending time on the water.
And likewise you get these wonderfully wet and dark winters which are perfect for life’s other joys: coding, reading, playing video games, boardgames, drinking coffee, etc.
I love places like San Diego / LA but I wouldn’t want to live in a place that is always a perfect summer day.
I was in Seattle Sept-Dec of 2008 on an internship and I remember feeling some of this. Based on what people had said, I was geared up for four months of a soggy, misty mess, but it wasn't that at all— the autumn there was splendid, with tons of breezy, cool days where the sun still shone, with the trees around my place in Madrona showing brilliant colour for weeks on end.
I love 4 seasons. But the weather and day length make for a difficult half-year from Oct - Mar. The NE corridor has some of these traits, but it was a lot easier to deal with there. In the NE, rain & grey-skies aren't as persistent. In Seattle, a month can go by without seeing the sun.
That's much of the west coast (west of the cascades). I moved from Seattle to the Bay Area, and it's basically the same weather except somewhat shorter summer days and winter nights, WAY more sunshine, and generally about 10f warmer. Except in the summers where these days it seems like Seattle has more 95+ degree days than the peninsula does.
The downside of the historically mild climate is a lot of older homes weren't built with energy efficiency in mind and now in 2025 we have to deal with that inefficiency on our energy bills :'(
It’s rarely super hot or super cold like a lot of places.
You get these ridiculously long summer days that last forever. It’s perfect for athletics and hiking and spending time on the water.
And likewise you get these wonderfully wet and dark winters which are perfect for life’s other joys: coding, reading, playing video games, boardgames, drinking coffee, etc.
I love places like San Diego / LA but I wouldn’t want to live in a place that is always a perfect summer day.