Western Washington, described as Ecotopia by some book I can't remember, has very moderate weather.
We typically freeze for 0-4 days at a time, 0-2 times per winter. The summer between July and early September is rainless, but it rains the rest of the time. Every few years we get a big windstorm and it knocks out power for a few neighborhoods for a day or two. Spring is warm and mild, varying from a sprinkle or mist to a torrential downpour, with sparse patches of clear weather between.
Only occasionally do we get an earthquake, and it does little more than knock food off your shelf.
We're sheltered on the Puget Sound and at a sufficiently high elevation to avoid a tsunami. Likewise, if you live above the flood plains you're pretty safe from pyroclastic mud flows resulting from a minor volcanic eruption (which we never have). And, seasonal flooding in the lowlands but what do you expect, you're living on the broad banks of a river?
Then again Mt Rainier is just twitching and burbling over there and it could blow any moment.
But crime and poverty are bad, and the police are jerks. And the whole eastern half of the state is ridiculous and insane. I think of a grizzled racist man in a stained wife-beater, crouching among his turnip patch gnawing on a bundle of raw tobacco, harassing his goat, spitting everywhere.
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