Nope, that’s my genuine experience living in this state.

Preach.

Personally I think we should add some gold to represent our bread basket in the east, but I get how people would wanna stick with the more restricted color scheme for aesthetics

Edit: I guess the light blue is the skies if E WA, so ok.

No one here gives much of a shit about Washington’s family crest. We care that he shrugged off his British roots and founded a nation that eventually grew to encompass the beautiful land we now know.

We want a salmon or our big ass mountain that is 3 times the height of Ben Nevis on our flag.

Washington’s family crest would somehow be an even worse representation of what this great state means.

You’re going to have to pick or choose from your wishlist. WA’s cost of livings isn’t very far below CA’s now, at least where people want to live.

All rural areas are going to have a higher per capita rates of homophobics and racists unfortunately. All rural places are also more likely to have poverty issues that result in a lot of petty crime and drug use, compared to the suburbs.

Exactly.

One of my favorites, except for summer

It is all minimum wage, mostly labor is migrant seasonal workers.

Fuck that. They should be welcome to reapply, but prior employment and subsequent termination for refusing to comply in a public health emergency should absolutely not give you priority

People in Seattle don’t own a lot of guns per capita, and those that do (that I know) usually have a favorite range/shop outside of the city they visit on a regular basis. Plus Seattle rent is stupid high, so it’s not really a huge money maker compared to moving to someplace an hour outside the city

Yeah there’s some stinging nettle but poison oak and poison ivy are definitely less common. I have worked outside landscaping a fair bit and only once or twice saw poison oak

That’s awesome. Hope later life treats you well.

Not to people who frown upon cultural erasure.

Beautiful shot! What a lovely mountain. But it does make me wish I was alive to see when St Helens was still the Mt Fuji of WA

And this isn’t even Oregon, it is Oregon’s business interests pushing an agenda…

Nah Republic gave him the boot. He then cried he wasn’t given a plaque.

Yeah I really don’t know. Like it literally just lists the percentages… not a lot to misconstrue

That’s not what that means.

That’s a dubiously sourced stat fyi, gold.com is not a reliable source.

The US Geologic Survey, a non biased 3rd party not trying to sell you something, puts the number closer to 10%

“Estimated global gold consumption was jewelry, 47%; physical bar, 21%; central banks and other institutions, 14%; official coins and medals and imitation coins, 10%; electrical and electronics, 7%; and other, 1%.”

https://pubs.usgs.gov/periodicals/mcs2022/mcs2022.pdf pages 72-73

Yeah generally Washingtonians don’t want to associate with anyone who hasn’t lived there for a decade. People are very friendly to other locals.

If you’re living in WA and are stuck indoors for 9 months than you’re doing something very wrong. Enjoy Florida

They’re all over, there’s fewer and fewer concentrated areas because everywhere nice is going way up in CoL

We don’t have a crystal ball that can predict weather a month out… but take the train, I’ve seen too many Floridians at the pass and it is disaster.

Unless you have experience driving in snowy western mountains, don’t drive

I would say it is hilarious… but honestly it’s more concerning than it is funny

I will, because I am in the right lmfao.

Keep excusing cultural erasure, doesn’t look sus whatsoever lol

Lol, I know I’m in the moral right when you have to resort to that level of semantics to try to poke holes in my fundamental argument.