At some point this vacation became reconnaissance in force to figure out whether I could make a go of it around Seattle.
I think I was sort of hoping for Seattle to be overwhelming external confirmation that I need to move and move now. Instead, this is really nice - nicer than the Bay Area. My decision is still very much caught up in "well this is great but could I afford to do it?" And that gets into money, a subject where I'm notoriously chickenshit.