re: Tell me about Seattle...

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I also won't find myself in traffic. We plan on taking the Link (I think it's called) from the airport and our hotel is walking distance to so many sites. I would like to go to the islands though

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It's only like $3 bucks to downtown.

I was there 2 months ago and walked all over down town at all hours. It was clean, safe, and fun. I only noticed large amounts of homeless in the little park by pike place market. The people all seem laid back and friendly.

Beautiful place. Food is good and everyone we met was nice. We went last summer to visit relatives and couldnt have asked for a better summer trip. Also, it was very very clean in the burbs. I was most impressed especially coming from Louisiana where littering is a time honored tradition passed down to generations.

Beautiful. Lots of traffic.

Liberals and 364 days of rain.

Miserable in February. Gets to be a drizzly grey about 930 in the morning. Full dark about 430 in the afternoon.

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364 days of rain.

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I think that's a bit dramatic

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Seattle is full of gays, transgender freaks, atheists, pot smoking hippies, and HIV awareness marches. Basically a liberal Heaven.

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Sounds....exactly like South Louisiana. Except Seattle is growing, prosperous, and you know...has money. Granted, they probably don't have the heinous crimes, trash, shite strewn across streets, and filth everywhere.

I find it funny that the "port-a-let", diarrhea crockpot of the US can say such things when it is the country's toilet.

#SouthLAculchabay-bay

Okay, what do you need to know? I'ved live here, well, 40 miles south in Olympia for the last 17 years (originally from Atlanta), but I used to work in Seattle everyday for two years (For those of you in the know, at the base of Magnolia and Queen Ann on Western St. near the cruise line boats.)

You're coming in February. The weather is going to be completely crappy. High's will be in the mid 40's, it will be rainy, gray, and you better bring a good mid-weight rain resistant coat. Seattle sits in the rain shadow of the Olympics, but the weather will still be crummy. Not heavy rain, more gray and misty than anything.

What do you plan to do here while visiting?

Go see the Boeing Museum, Space Needle, Experience Music Project (EMP), go to Pike Place Market, go the San Juans or up to Victoria, Seattle Art Museum, go to the breweries like Pyramid, go the Freemont, Ballard, Gas Works Park, Lake Union, The U District, Capitol Hill, Pioneer Square, Belltown, Queen Anne. If you want to get away, go to Vashon Island, take a trip up to Snoqualmie Falls, Lake Cushman or Leavenworth.

Seattle people are cordial, they are not friendly. Most Seattlelites will look at you like you've got a dick growing out of your forehead if you said "Hello" to them on the street. Yes Seattle is incredibly liberal, the "Seattle Freeze" is prevalent (google it) and people are pretty much introverts. Get outside of Seattle, into places like Tacoma, Everett, etc and the attitudes quickly change as does the demographics of the region.

Food is great. Pacific Northwest cuisine, i.e. Salmon, Dungeness Crab, free range beef, great stuff. Drinks are great and you have a HUGE selection of beer, wine and alcohol, all from local breweries or distilleries.

Not all of us here are pixie-chugging tree blowers, lots of Tiger fans, military folks and retirees, and anyone East of the Cascades usually hates King County.

I do love it when family comes up here as I get to feel like a tourist all over again when I show them around Seattle. It really is a beautiful place and hopefully the sun comes out while you're here. Staring at Mt. Rainier will make you say "holy crap" along with the rest of the Cascades and Olympics. I still do it.