I moved to Seattle 15 years ago. (Yikes! I’m getting old) I came out here after graduating from college and thought this was a great city. In many ways, it is. The job market is still good (even in the face of a recession), the average person here is more educated than in most places, it is in a blue state (oops…did I just reveal too much of myself?), and when it is sunny here there is no place I have ever been in the US that is more beautiful. But here is the key phrase in that last sentence…. “when it is sunny here”.
The weather here largely sucks. It isn’t just the rain. It is the constant lack of sun that hurts so bad. It makes even lily white Norwegians like myself go searching for tanning beds to spend a scant few minutes in to have the illusion of sun.
I really realized just how infrequently the sun appears when at Little Gym with Aidan last week. At the end of class, the teacher always stamps the kids’ hands and feet with a different stamp. Last week it was a yellow sun.
My son is a really smart cookie. He knows words that would floor you. (Like hippopotamus…it is crazy) He knows pretty much every weather condition and constellation. For example, he knows: moon, stars, rainbow, windy, clouds, sky, rain, snow, and hail. Yes…he knows what hail is. But he was at a loss when he saw the sun stamp. He looked at me with a confused face, crinkled up his nose, and said questioningly (like he knew it was wrong)….”Moon???”
I smiled down at him and chuckled to myself. I vowed that the next day the sun came out we were going to cover that. I am still waiting. 
Weather is pretty hideous in Boston also. Come to think of it, most of the nice warm sunny places have crappy school systems. Besides California. But they do have raging forest fires and mud slides. You do have Dungenous crab which is huge in my book.
Hilarious and sad all in one! Best of luck for some sunny days ahead.