Seeing as how I live in the Pacific Northwest I will let you all in on a rather peculiar trait of the denizens of my area. I have had friends move away from home, usually when I talk to them they make some sort of statement about how they miss the rain. A lot of people visit the Oregon coast during the winter so they can watch the spectacular storms coming in from the Ocean. My house grows moss on the north side which I have to clean off every spring once the rainy season stops (it hasn't yet). Labrador Retrievers are popular dogs for the area as they have webbed feet. And of course one of the popular college's in the area has a duck for a mascot.