Early 70's, 3rd week in October and beautiful weather. My buddy and I hiked in for a couple of days, built a small log structure and had a blast.

We seem to enjoy getting fuck by politicians, but the westside keeps voting for Jay and Bob.

If the circumstances aren't money related, invest in a pair of chains. I have a tiny front wheel drive car and they make a massive difference.

Plus, depending on where you're going, it's not just snoqualmie pass you have to worry about but all the passes and states between here and your destination.

Brother im not arguing against any point being made here. Im answering ops question and sharing my reply to an area already posted. Im grateful for my situation

And that, there, is one of the key differences: you’re only funding yourself. Adding a dependent of any sort, other than a pet, drastically changes things.

As does the area in which you live. “Tacoma-ish” is a bit cheaper, on average, from what I understand than most anything Seattle and north.

If you’re making it now and able to save, sweet. Stuff away what you can while you can. This may not always be the case.

Who the fuck is "Bespoke Surgical" and why would we care about their results? These numbers are stupid.

I live south in tacoma area kind of, and Im able to provide housing and all that for just me on a 37hr rate- also have some to pad my savings each month

Na a couple thousand people is actually quite statistically significant for the country. That being said, I'm sure there's a metric fucktons of flaws with this survey because there's no way in hell it's accurate. Doesn't pass the smell test.

There's no way that's accurate

I don’t even know 0.8 people

The state is not pretty liberal though, it's solidly marginally liberal. There's certainly selection bias in this survey and they only have 116 people proportionally representing WA

Not true, I don’t have any

They surveyed 3,151 people. WA is ~3.5% of the USA so that's 116 people proportionally representing 7.7 million

Seems way too low.

They also don't say how they picked who filled out the survey.

I dont even know 54.8 people

In your area?

I’m just spit balling ideas here but Washington (puget sound) is pretty liberal. I feel like liberal leaning people get married later on average than conservatives. So that leaves you more time to run through partners. I could be wrong. All I know is I’m bring that average way down.

Yea I'm nearing that end of my run and that isn't even fucking close.

And Oregon has an average of 10? These numbers are nonsense.

It took me two seconds to find the CDC numbers.

https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/nsfg/key_statistics/n-keystat.htm

This doesn’t feel statistically accurate

I'm struggling to imagine how one even accumulates that many

It's cold and rainy most of the year. Might as well stay inside and bang.

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Yeah, we were just doing some light gardening today. Some things do die back, but there's a whole lot of green left.

I'm on my way!!

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