When it rained here for almost two straight weeks I was ready to kill myself... I can't imagine living in Washington with all of that constant rain.
When you say 'here', where is that? Just curious.
2 weeks straight? When my bro and his new wife moved here after college, we had record rain. Something like 80 straight days. She is from the PA/NY area, and was getting seriously depressed. However, the whole rain thing is kind of overblown, its just that instead of really cold winters with lots of snow, we have lots of drizzling grey days instead. I much prefer that, an inch or two of snow brings this area to its knees with all of the hills and drivers that don't know how to handle snow.
The summers in the NW are a thing of beauty, no humidity either. IMO, the marine climate is very underrated.