Well, the West has always been a magnet, either for work or whatever various dreams people may have. I found it interesting, while living in Washington...I think it was a Canadian radio station I was hearing, when it was mentioned that the PNW had a lot of 'lemmings'. You have people who were drawn to the West Coast looking for 'something'...seekers...and when they didn't find it in California, were drawn farther North, with a lot ending up in the far Northwest reaches, and, still not finning what they were seeking, became like lemmings and we would get a lot of alcoholism, depression, wife beating, 'cabin fever'. Whidbey Island, though in a rain shadow, and getting much less rain than we do here, at that time seemed to be gray and drizzly every day except for the month of August. We built a house and stayed 3 years...I must admit having mentioned to Jer that if he did not get us out of there, I would have to kill him in his sleep. He paid attention...I did love it there and perhaps was having problems with SAD that I don't have now, but our weather here is much more variable and the last two winters here have had a lot of nice days, not the constant gray. That may be due to climate change also. My neighbor who is from SoCal has been here maybe 10 years now and said that it has always been that people would come in the Summer, love it, move here and then Winter would hit with 60 inches of rain and they would leave. However, the last two Winters that I've been here have had 30 some inches of rain and I think that will affect our population again. I don't mind as long as the people who want to re-create Disneyland don't come here and see it as an opportunity.
