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Seattle is a happening city! Even if you've never lived here, you know about Seattle. A lot of nice things started here:
to name a few. Seattle is a lot like Sweden, except that we make it through the long winter with espresso instead of alcohol. The economy is recovering now, and it's getting easier to find quality work.
Seattle is a major cultural center. It has its own fine opera, ballet, symphony, and many theatres. It has an outstanding art museum and a brand new music museum. It has science centers, zoos, etc. etc. Almost all major performing art companies stop here. It has some of the largest regional festivals (like Bumbershoot) and fairs (like Puyallup) in the country.
Seattle is also an educational center. The University of Washington has several campuses, and you can study just about anything you want here. There are many other fine schools as well.
There are fine restaurants of every nationality and description, and many modern shopping centers. There are also some of the best thrift shops anywhere, and a lot of antique stores, too.
Seattle is a beautiful city, perhaps the most beautiful in America. It's interwoven with the waterways of the Puget Sound, and is surrounded by great evergreen forests, mixed with colorful deciduous trees. The city is clean and safe to walk around in almost any time of the day.
Well, the winters are long, dark, and rainy. And the city is sprawling, and the traffic is terrible.
It rains a lot in Seattle, about one day out of two. But there's rain, and then there's rain. We hardly ever have "pouring rain" here. Instead, we have a gentle drizzle or mist -- bad for the hair, good for the complexion. Most locals just kind of ignore the rain, and you don't see many umbrellas here. Also, many rainy days are actually pretty sunny. Nevertheless, you might plan on vacationing somewhere else in the middle of the winter.
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