You might be a Washingtonian

Culled from my own knowledge and experience of living in Washington. A few, namely the weather entries, can be applied to Oregon as well (the "Northwest"). Some characteristics may only apply to the Seattle area or Southern Washington.

• You sometimes go to Oregon to return your aluminum cans
• You go to Oregon to do major shopping as often as possible
• You sometimes fear the IRS will catch up to your tax-dodging ways.
• You've been to the original Starbucks.
• You remember when Starbucks actually made good coffee
• You know why everyone calls it "Spocompton", and in fact, you call it that too.
• Canada is a prime vacation spot.
• You have basically no accent.
• The mix of punk rock, indie rock, hicks, rednecks, liberals, and politicos in your state capital confounds you.
• Being able to visit forests, petrified forests, the desert, two different mountain ranges, rivers, volcanoes, and the coast all within your own state does not strike you as odd.
• You don't call it "the beach", you call it the "coast".
• You think someone carrying an umbrella is either odd or must be from California.
• At least one person you know has been hurt by the dot-com downfall.
• You know who Tim Eyman is.
• You hate/love Tim Eyman.
• Real Christmas trees are the norm in your household, and you go to a local tree farm or to the forest to cut yours down.
• You know how much Burgerville kicks McDonald's and any other fast-food burger joint's ass.
• You know where The Couve is.
• You know there is a Vancouver other than the one in British Columbia.
• You understand why this joke is funny -

  DIY Washington Weather Report: If you can see Mount Ranier, it's going to rain. If you can't see Mount Ranier, it already is raining.

• You understand that the above joke is true.
• You go to Oregon for all your assisted suicide needs.
• You can stay home for all your medical marijuana needs.

• You've heard of The Farming Game.
• You know what Cascadia is, and what side of the fence you'd choose.
• You've had salmon prepared just about any way you can imagine and some you never wanted to.
• You can't think of a local supermarket whose deli doesn't serve sushi.
• You go on vacation to California and someone asks you to bring them a giant bottle of liquor from Costco. Or Safeway!*
• At Christmas, you don't fend off fruitcake - you fend off basement microbrews.
• You remember when espresso carts were actual carts and there were more of them than Starbucks.
• You've ever explained to friends or relatives visiting from the other coast that, yes, there's only one state between here and there, but it will probably take more than two hours to drive to California.
• You've driven in snow and consider yourself pretty competent. After all, you do it almost once a year. Going 2 miles an hour.
• You've given serious consideration to whether your state's anthem should be changed to Louie Louie.
• You've never been to a school whose computers weren't supplied primarily by Microsoft.
• The only suntans you've ever had, you got on vacation or indoors.
• You've felt lucky that, for the last several years, the most embarassing thing about your state's politics was your governor's haircut.
• You're originally from California.**

* Washington's liquor stores are all state-run, making giant bottles of booze a novelty. Bonus novelty points are awarded for store brand liquor.

** Or one of your parents is.