07 Seattle
The mythical "Seattle freeze" is no urban legend — but it doesn't mean that residents are overtly cold and rude. Garden-variety antisocial behavior is far from the norm in the Emerald City, and visitors frequently report seeing no trace of the famed freeze whatsoever. It's more of a layered, understated chill that manifests itself in polite social behaviors on the surface, but that surface shields an underlying river of ice when someone tries to get beneath it. For example, those who move to a Seattle neighborhood might get to know their neighbors on a casual basis, but any attempt to extend the association by inviting them to a barbecue or to come over for a glass of wine is met by a thin but quite unmistakable veil of frost. The prevailing theory for the Seattle freeze is that residents' moods mirror the area's characteristic gloomy weather.
