Good place, depressing winters. - 8/1/2015
I've lived in Snohomish for 22 years, WWA for 29, WA for 34.
It's a nice place to live & raise your kids.
Housing is high due to proximity to a lot of high-paying jobs Ike Boeing and electronics/ software, but there are plenty of modestly priced homes too.
Downside is weather. While it's much better than many areas of the country which get suffocatingly hot and humid in the summer yet subzero bleak windy and snowy in the winter, we have depressingly dark, damp, rainy winters which can last from October to May. Summer & fall tends to be very nice, but some years we don't get a summer at all! Spring is a tease - warms up and everyone gets excited only to revert to another month of dreary, rainy weather.
If five straight months of dark, 40° and raining weather with only eight hours of sunlight per day doesn't depress you, wait until next winter.
Western Washington has periodic booms with influxes of people from around the country – however,
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