I often get him confused with Rick Steves

But they all know the temperature and are willingly and even happily playing pickleball right now.

This is a little much... for much of this winter it was as nice or nicer in NB than in Seattle. And its often warmer/sunnier in the summer months too. Spring can really suck near the foothills though. Particularly the pattern this month. But to say its a miserable place to live implies that its 12 months of gloom and crap while Seattle basks in sunshine. That is just not the reality.

Bothered in the sense that my heart goes out to folks who expected a nice time in seasonable temps in the 80s and instead are getting roasted in summer desert temps? Sure. There's a reason they didn't schedule that in June.

I don't know how people can live like that.