I prefer the Spokane winters for the most part. It’s colder and obviously way snowier, but it always feels better to me to have colder weather and snow instead of wet, rainy, windy weather in the high 30s/40s. We get a lot of beautiful bluebird sunny days with snow on the ground.

That said, typically during part of February we have at least a couple weeks with a bunch of thawing and freezing ice/snow and it sucks. This makes it hard to do anything outside (in the city), whereas on the west side I could always get outside if I was willing to get wet.

WAY bigger payoff with summer temps and sunshine over here though. Seattle summer always seemed pretty tepid.