I grew up around the seattle area and now I live in the Valley. I don't miss the weather. I really appreciate the weather here. It seems like a miracle to me that every day that I wake up I can go on my bike and go to work in nice weather. It might get chilly once in a while, but thats nothing a sweater can't fix. The two times it has rained while I was commuting, the rain so light and not nearly as cold that I laughed. Rain here tends to be a fine mist.