Although I have been to Seattle lots of times to visit family, and since we are moving there, I thought I would take a few minutes to find out some more about Seattle. For example, every time we are there, I think I ask my wife the population of the area. She has no idea.
I’m a fact guy. I love them. Here are some cool ones that I saw on the wikipedia entry for Seattle for those of you who would like to know more about where we are moving.
- Everybody tells me to enjoy the sun while I am in Utah. In reality, the so-called “rainy city” receives an unremarkable 34.3 inches of precipitation a year, which is much less precipitation than New York City, Atlanta, and Houston and most cities of the Eastern Seaboard of the United States. Seattle’s inaccurate worldwide reputation for rain derives from the fact that it is cloudy (not rainy) an average of 226 days per year (vs. 132 in New York City).
- As of 2006, the city had an estimated population of 580,000 and a metropolitan population of approximately 4 million.
- Seattle has the highest population of college graduates of any major U.S. city.
- Seattle’s first name was New York, then Duwamps, then finally it was renamed Seattle after Chief Noah Sealth who was chief of the two tribes living in the area.
When you are there, you have to take a trip on the duck. It’s an amphibious vehicle that takes you on a tour of Seattle telling all kinds of facts and stories. And then you get to go on in Lake Union. I think we went there on my first trip ever to Seattle. They give you these annoying duck beak whistles. I need to go again.
