I just love Jeff Foxworthy, he's hilarious! THIS IS WHAT JEFF FOXWORTHY HAS TO SAY ABOUT LIVING IN WASHINGTON STATE : If someone in a Home Depot store offers you assistance and they don't work there, you live in Washington . If you've worn shorts and a parka at the same time, you live in Washington . If you've had a lengthy telephone conversation with someone who dialed the wrong number, you live in Washington . If you measure distance in hours, you live in Washington . If you know several people who have hit a deer more than once, you live in Washington . If you have switched from 'heat' to 'A/C' and back again in the same day, you live in Washington . If you install security lights on your house and garage but leave both doors unlocked, you live in Washington . If you can drive 75 mph through 2 feet of snow during a raging blizzard without flinching, you live in Central, Southern or Eastern Washington . If you design your kid's Halloween costume to fit over 8 layers of clothes, you live in Washington . If the speed limit on the highway is 55 mph -- you're going 80, and everyone is still passing you, you live in Washington . If driving is better in the winter because the potholes are filled with snow and ice, you live in Washington . If you know all 4 seasons: almost winter, winter, still winter, and road construction, you live in Washington . If you actually understand these jokes and forward them to all your WASHINGTON friends, you live or have lived in Washington . Hehehehehe!
This is so not Seattle. Here is my Seattle version: If stoners and old Asian ladies are driving 30mph in the left lane, you live in Seattle.
I've not been to Wa. since 1995 (Spokane), and the Seattle area since 1991 (my aunt and uncle lived in Marysville, and now Issaquah). I live in Pennsylvania, which seems horrid compared to even my native southern California as far as traffic and roadwork. Also I do switch between heat and AC minute by minute at times. And I love the PNW. And the Sounders. Maybe this is an omen. Time to hit Craigslist's realty section, no?
That is my experience also. I have made the drive from the bay area to the Seattle area and back at least 20 times and I can tell you that the farther you head north the closer to the speed limit you better be. It is nothing to do 80 on I-5 in California, but, try that in Washington and you are begging for a ticket.
Eh, large sections of I-5 up here are 70 so going 80 isn't that big of a deal. But yes there are still large numbers of left lane hoggers. Though I reject the remark that they are stoners! We know better than the grandmas! ;-)
On I-5, following the speed limit isn't that big a deal (unless you're driving through Olympia or Kelso). However, when you get off on the state highways like 16, etc., you'd best not range much more than 5 over or you're asking for trouble.
I've never been to Wisconsin or Minnesota, but I bet eastern Washington is similar. For instance, snowmobiles are big in Spokane. Also, I think Jeff Foxworthy plays better in eastern Washington than western Washington, so I think that's really what he was talking about. Chizzy, why are you flying a Texas flag as your avatar? It hurts my eyes.
That would be so awesome! Addition by subtraction! The US suddenly becomes a much better country, and the world rejoices. Do it, Texas!!!
Lol. So SoFla ends up basically the Alaska of the South. Gotta pass through a foreign country to get to it. Srsly, I don't see secession happening in my lifetime. However, why not states? This whole Jefferson thing in southern Oregon/extreme NorCal sounds interesting. I'm a southern Californian by birth and upbringing. If the north is unhappy with us, then good luck to them! Washington seems pretty peaceful. Seems like BC wants to join the U.S., or at least the more right wing folks from there do. Do they want to fuse with WA or just be the 51st?