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Should I move to Seattle?

I spent my first 30 years in Utah and have lived in Seattle for the last 10 or so. It took me a little time to become acclimated to the differences. Growing up in a small city like Salt Lake results in a bit of culture shock when moving to a bigger city. I am not LDS, so I can't speak on that part. I did work with a lot of Mormon guys up here, and they didn't seem to have any complaints. The summers here are incredible. It has been between 75-80 the last few weeks and that is about average for the summer. It never really gets too hot here. If it hits 90 people freak out. The rain isn't as bad as people make it out to be, although there are a lot of grey days. I believe on the order of 200 a year or so. I could never move back to Utah after living here, but I'm not religious and like having more of a separation between church and state.

If you have any more questions about this area, please let me know and I'll be glad to help in any way I can.
 
My wife and I have given some thought to moving away from here (Utah) and the pacific NW is a spot that interests us. I have some extended family up there (mostly Oregon) and they love it. They're not religious though.
 
green said:
Yay or nay? The wife and I love it up in the NW, we could make more money in our profession up there. Have you guys lived there? What did you like/dislike? Our biggest concern is we have three little ones. Other concern is we are LDS. I grew up out of state and it was tough at times. I was always jealous of Utah kids growing up around so many people with simar values. I'm worried to pull them out of the state.

What say ye, jazzfanz people of knowledge and good repoir?
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That line REALLY bugs me and is VERY telling. The fact that another Christian believes in the Old Testament, and the New Testament, but not in the book of Mormon means NOTHING about the quality of the person or their set of values. Just like your inability to spell "similar" and "rapport" means nothing about you as a person.
 
default said:
That line REALLY bugs me and is VERY telling. The fact that another Christian believes in the Old Testament, and the New Testament, but not in the book of Mormon means NOTHING about the quality of the person or their set of values. Just like your inability to spell "similar" and "rapport" means nothing about you as a person.
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Shoots and scores.

My grandma who was born a Catholic and has spent most of her life as a Presbyterian has much higher morals than 99.9 percent of Utah Mormons/BYU students. In terms of honesty, respect, and just all around integrity, she's amazing.

Throughout my life (and especially, on my mission) I met folks from different religions who were amazing. I know that many Mormons think that they're the only folks who believe in hard work, faith, and honesty, but the truth is.... You can find great people everywhere you go. I haven't seen any studies (and it would be very difficult to do one) but I'm not so sure that a "value system" is dependent upon your particular religion.

For me, I'm just not sure I could deal with the extremely high cost of living and the dark rainy days. Although... I think the "rain" might be a bit overrated there. I think it rains a lot more in the east.
 
default said:
That line REALLY bugs me and is VERY telling. The fact that another Christian believes in the Old Testament, and the New Testament, but not in the book of Mormon means NOTHING about the quality of the person or their set of values. Just like your inability to spell "similar" and "rapport" means nothing about you as a person.
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Huh? He wrote a simple sentence that never implied any of that.
 
default said:
That line REALLY bugs me and is VERY telling. The fact that another Christian believes in the Old Testament, and the New Testament, but not in the book of Mormon means NOTHING about the quality of the person or their set of values. Just like your inability to spell "similar" and "rapport" means nothing about you as a person.
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Whoa, whoa, whoa... What? Seriously, what the **** are you talking about? I want to point out that I hate green just as much as any other glue-sniffing Ute, but I gotta stick up for the man on this one. He didn't even come close to what you're insinuating. The Mormon faith has high values, and I don't think that is up for debate, and I think the majority of Mo's live up to those morals and standards. Are there idiots (like me) who give them all a bad name? Of course, but overall, Utah is a great place to live if you value certain things. Studies abound about how we're the most charitable, friendly, beautiful, etc. I would NEVER move my family to the east coast, simply because I think their values suck rocks, the people are ugly (not just looks, but man, they look ugly), etc. I will keep them here in Utah because I know that 9 times out of 10, the people they interact with will be upstanding, moral people. Utah has a lot of good people, and the Mormon church is responsible for a lot of that. Deal with it, yo.

Not to pound you further into the ground, but dude... When The Thriller gives you props on your post, you have to know that you were either plastered when you wrote it, misunderstood the OP, or you're just trying to pull a fast one on everyone.

The Thriller said:
Shoots and scores.

My grandma who was born a Catholic and has spent most of her life as a Presbyterian has much higher morals than 99.9 percent of Utah Mormons/BYU students. In terms of honesty, respect, and just all around integrity, she's amazing.
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Hyperbole is fun, no doubt, but shut the **** up.

Duck Rodgers said:
Huh? He wrote a simple sentence that never implied any of that.
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The Asian speaks truth.
 
default said:
That line REALLY bugs me and is VERY telling. The fact that another Christian believes in the Old Testament, and the New Testament, but not in the book of Mormon means NOTHING about the quality of the person or their set of values. Just like your inability to spell "similar" and "rapport" means nothing about you as a person.
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Calm down. Thriller's already humping your leg.
 
default said:
That line REALLY bugs me and is VERY telling. The fact that another Christian believes in the Old Testament, and the New Testament, but not in the book of Mormon means NOTHING about the quality of the person or their set of values. Just like your inability to spell "similar" and "rapport" means nothing about you as a person.
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Does mean something about the quality of the person if they don't believe in the Old testament, the New Testament or the Book of Mormon?

You want to know who's post was very telling? Yours.
 
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