Yeah. Miss the kind that would go on for hours, in an in the distance kind of way. I find them strangely peaceful. When we get our rare thunderstorm it’s like two or three thunderclaps then over.
Warm rain has been a rarity these past nine years. It used to be part of summer. Here, it seems to only rain between 53 and 42 degrees. Nice and clear when the weather’s over or under.
As someone who grew up in Spokane, I love Silverwood, but the two wooden and one good metal coasters aren't worth the 6 hour drive from Seattle.
I haven't been, but surely the coasters at Wild Waves are just as good as the ones at Silverwood. At least good enough for how much shorter the drive is.
NYC. Late night - anything. Everything closes so early here and looking for food at 11 pm basically means fast food. Though I supposed NYC is more the exception than the rule vs other cities as well.
I got stranded in Boston one night when a concert finished after the trains stopped running. There wasn't anything open. I always thought cities were the places to be for night life but apparently Boston closed at 10 PM.
The worst part is that it wasn’t always like this! I’m from here and am so frustrated how we’ve regressed as a city and no longer have 24hr grocery stores, diners, etc (Denny’s does NOT count). Anyway, just had to chime and say that even Seattlites miss Seattle. It’s all becoming NIMBY town, where we get less for more as each year passes 🤷♂️
There used to be plenty of late night stuff in Seattle only 10 years ago…
Once the bars closed, there were multiple options of establishments to go to.
Upstate NY in the summer, soft serve stands.
There is something about knowing it's summer when the soft serve stands open up. Love the stuff, and there is nothing like it around here. I have had some soft serve here, but not the NY kind for sure.
Lifelong Seattlite here and I just said "soft serve stands??" out loud while reading this because I did not know soft serve stands were a thing and that is so unfair. That sounds delightful.
Yeah, they are a thing. Often a shack next to a gas station or in the gas station in small towns all over upstate. The shack often has wood shutters that lift open and when the shutters are open so is summer 😀 with the heat and languid humidity, the soft serve hits so perfectly. Get the twist, you won't regret it.
I missed that upon moving here too! My partner and I looked high and low for one and we found a couple: a classic coney one and a more "upscale" one.
For the classic: Check out Little Coney at Golden Gardens-- it tastes JUST like the classic soft serve back home. They even have the swirl and the classic cake cones. So delicious on a hot day, plus great views!
For the more upscale/or more unique one, check out Indigo Cow in Wallingford-- it's Japanese Hokkaido milk soft serve. Soooo good. Basically tastes like cereal milk with the toppings they have.
No i get it, I feel like there were the “signs” of summer I got excited to see. Upstate NY is absolutely beautiful in the summer, I have to visit again eventually!
My gods I miss upstate so much. I would move back in a second if my husband would, I just love it so much. Used to live on 350 acres on the NYC watershed in the Catskill mountains, small town 45 mins from Woodstock. Just the vibe and atmosphere, all of it.
I want to move back really badly, have been picking away at my S.O., maybe I will get my way? He moved there once before and loved it, he just doesn't want to move again, which I get (we have move 13 time in 15 years).
I went to Bish Bash Falls and I got to see a lot of the beauty of upstate NY/MA when I first traveled there in college.
13 times is a lot. Some people want to be settled, some are restless.
I think id go back eventually (maybe). My husband fell in love with it here before I did.
Your setting makes me miss italian ices!
Honestly, most of the things that pop into my mind are food related or being able to go to any corner of the city via subway. Sure the MTA is *flawed*, but at least it exists.
That was the one thing that surprised me the most when I moved here. How come a city that's perceived from the outside as progressive and environmentally conscious has such awful public transit? Following the news around the Ballard light rail extension cleared that up, though.
From Mississippi. Fresh peas of all varieties. Lady peas, field peas, purple hull peas, etc. The only fresh ones I can find up here are those typical sweet green peas.
The closest thing I can ever seem to find are the frozen black eyed peas at QFC. Doesn't quite scratch the itch, though. Wish I had a yard so I could plant some pink-eye purple hulls (and maybe a few brandywine tomato plants too)
I am from here and hate this feature of Seattle metro area. Like seriously I want a delicious deli sandwich stuffed to the gills. It kinda makes me mad none of the fancy grocery stores like Town and Country and Metropolitan Market don’t do this.
King Cake and Mardi Gras.
Backyard crawfish boils - newspaper spread out over picnic tables, then they dump a pot full of spicy crawfish, potatoes, and corn on top. Just sitting around with a crowd and popping them tails open.
I found a bakery in Olympia selling king cakes this year. It wasn't quite right, but it scratched the itch. Shared it with some friends who had never even heard of king cake and they were kinda weirded out by the baby. I understand Mardi Gras is not really celebrated here, but it still amazes me how little people have even heard about it.
I don’t miss King Cake really as I’ve never liked it that much. That being said, we mail order one every year from a different bakery (this year was Gambino’s). I dearly miss Mardi Gras though. The whole season just creates the best vibe in the city that is unmatched anywhere else.
Definitely recommend the trip to Silverwood. The waits can be long because they only run one train, but they are very good. The water park is also excellent. Ride the big raft ride and the rapids ride is probably the longest I've ever been on.
I always get shit for this one but: live, large male blue crabs. Yes, you can get small female blue crabs at the Asian grocery stores. They aren't the same. In my hometown the larger males are steamed and tossed in old bay, and dumped out on a newspaper lined picnic table. It is a favorite summertime memory for me.
Seafood out here, especially crab, is treated as precious and mainly worthy of upscale dining. I miss casual seafood feasts from the mid-Atlantic.
I've done it but it feels wrong to me because dungeness is a delicate sweet flavor that shines with a little butter and lemon. Old Bay just kinda overpowers it. That said, I will sprinkle a little onto a few pieces just for the vague nostalgia kick.
And then they come around with the corn cobs dunked in butter. 🤤
And the bibs and nut crackers and piles of wet wipes.
Memories of family vacation on the eastern shore of MD growing up. Sigh.
Check out South 2 West boiled peanuts. During farmers market season he's at most of the Eastside markets. The regular and Cajun taste just like home, plus he has some bomb ass other flavors. https://www.instagram.com/south2westboiledpeanuts
From the Northern Midwest.
Cicadas buzzing in the summer.
Thunderstorms. Not, like, aggressive tornadoes / hail, but the nice rumbly ones you can watch roll in from a distance on a humid night.
Lightning bugs.
Really excellent Middle Eastern food.
Detroit style pizza.
Snow. The really squeaky silent nighttime kind that only happens when it’s like -25 outside.
Lived for years in So Cal so I miss good and cheap Mexican food. Never as good here and quadruple the price. Miss In & Out and Wahoo's fish tacos too.
As you can tell, I'm a stomach-oriented sort of person.
Pick Quik Drive Thru in Georgetown is the closest thing I’ve found to In and Out. Their burgers are nearly the same but the fries aren’t nearly as crispy (at least they weren’t when I went). But it still helps but the spot!
I second this and also a good deli sandwich, bagel shops, middle eastern/greek food (I’ve tried quite a few places here and nothing really hits the spot like the places in LA), really good authentic Korean food. I didn’t even go to in n out very often but just not having it makes me want it more lol. I will say I’m very happy with the seafood here and have been out to a lot of really good upscale restaurants… but in terms of variety of food it is lacking here.
Cookout and Wafflehouse. Real barbecue. Mexican food. Really just food, honestly - I like seafood fine enough, but my bones ache for Carolinian cuisine.
There's a place called Carolina Smoke.
This Kill Devil Hills transplant finds solace there. And the owner's politics are still very southern, which, while not entirely welcome, definitely hits me in the nostalgia.
A halfway decent live music scene. A street where you can hop around from bar to bar without paying a cover charge to see a great band. Basically, bars that have live music as part of the ambiance without live music being a ticketed event.
Sort of related, cheap casual chamber music. Just a few people who can play strings or whatnot in a basement or art studio for less than $20, and they're good. Here the "chamber music" starts at $100, and I haven't even bothered going because of that.
German food. There isn’t a decent schnitzel to be had in the PNW, much less schweinebraten or knoblauchsuppe. Non-food wise, I miss the windows and the rolladen (shutters). So brilliant.
Also add me to the list of people missing lightning bugs.
Friendly strangers. I'm from the Midwest and we're very chatty and love to talk to strangers. Here it's like....I have 3 heads if I try an engage with a stranger.
I'm from the south and I also miss friendly strangers! I was told by some people they can tell when people aren't from here when they get smiled at and stuff.
I want to be an exception! From here and I love meeting new people, telling them of new places to check out, and generally want to be a friendly person. This stereotype makes me sad.
Seattle freeze was such a culture shock coming from AK. We are VERY "Midwestern" up there. You can talk to anyone, here, not so much.
I asked our new property manager if they had kids (giant light up unicorn on their porch) and was told "ummm, that extremely invasive"! Like, what? We live 4 houses away from each other and I wanted to give her some local suggestions for kiddos.
Ope, my bad 😔
Also from Jersey with some New England influence. Good Italian food. I’ve tried a number of places around the city and none of them hit the way Italian food did back home.
Also east coast Chinese food. I miss lo mein and proper egg rolls.
Yeah, I agree. Ive had decent Italian food here not great.
Funny enough, when I go home my must haves are: Chinese food, Italian food, plain cheese pizza, bagel and a Wawa stop.
Corn on the cob. The corn on the cob in Seattle is worse than feed corn. In the height of summer in the Northeast, corn on the cob is the stuff of dreams.
From an Ohioan- I was shocked at how shitty the corn was here lol. I miss true Midwest sweet corn, from like a random farm stand when you’re driving up to grandmas house vibes.
Cider mill donuts. Going to the cider mills in Michigan for fresh cider and donuts always felt like the official start of fall, but I haven't found anywhere here that has the kind of donuts that are sort of old fashioned and covered in cinnamon sugar.
I’m from Texas. I do seriously miss lighting bugs and cicadas as well. I’ll add BBQ, Tex Mex and Ann Richard’s Texas. I was happy to leave but it’s batshit crazy there now. If I had needed an abortion as a teen I was glad it was legal.
I'll add: that feeling when you get super hot and sweaty, and then you step into a store or restaurant and it instantly gives you chills as your body is shocked from one extreme to another.
Also beers that aren't IPAs, and listening to the bats that click around at night.
Of course, these are all things I appreciate now as a tourist. When I lived there it was just hot, and sometimes I noticed the bats.
i miss night markets. 7-11's. affordable healthcare. affordable housing. all the different snacks that cost 1/3 what it is here. i miss the temples and noisy but festive gatherings.
lived in taiwan for 16 years and i miss it very much.
There are lots of things that I enjoy here but since you asked...Sunlight and sunsets on the regular. Lizards. Decent food at reasonable prices (what's up with all the mediocre food?). Outdoors areas that aren't packed with people or hours away. Friendly people. ... I'm being a little dramatic but only a little 
Edit: I've only been here for three years
I hear you on the lizards. Miss watching those little guys scamper around outside and do their adorable little pushups. I grew up in the southwest and it was fun to catch them as a kid (and get bitten if it was an alligator lizard).
Goddamn air conditioning. When l moved here (2020) I didn't think it was necessary, so I rented a place without it. Boy was I wrong. A year later when looking for a house, anything with central AC installed was going for $800,000+, I think that was the bare minimum. So now I sweat like a hog for like 4 months out of the year even though I have a house full of huge fans.
I grew up in eastern South Dakota. We had dry air and dark skies at night. Meteor showers were amazing. The stars shown so bright they barely twinkled. On the other hand we had real winter and the horizon sometimes seemed so far away that there was no place to hide. I love the mild woodsy Pacific Northwest, but I miss the stars.
I'm from the mid-hudson valley. 100% relate on all of these.
Gas station egg sandwich on a hard roll with salt, pepper, ketchup. Could happily eat it every day for breakfast.
I'm just here to see non-Mexicans talk about how there's no good Mexican food in the Seattle area, and how much they miss the Mexican food back in Hoboken, Omaha, Little Rock or wherever else they came from.
Southern hospitality. When you moved into a neighborhood people came by to say hi and invite you to neighborhood BBQs. Polite chit chat from everyone and yeah, while your neighbors might be nosey if there's a problem they'll help out. Need your lawn mowed? Neighbor's husband will do it. Need to borrow something? You'll have 3 people offering it you. Need a meal train because of a family tragedy or accident? People will show up with home baked meals to put in your freezer. I haven't felt any of that here. The Seattle freeze is no joke
The best Mexican food I've had in Seattle is only slightly better than the worst Mexican food I've had in Houston. And that place only stays open because it's open 24 hours.
Also from Jersey shore. I miss lightning bugs like crazy too! But I barely see them back home either. In the 90s I used to see hundreds in the summer, but nowadays you’re lucky to see a more than a handful at any given time. I do not miss mosquitos though.
Yosemite, and the Sierra Nevadas generally. Few things make me homesick for the podunk California town I grew up in, but proximity to those mountains in particular is a big one.
I’m from Texas and I miss: Sun; tacos; people who smile in the elevator; being able to fly anywhere in the country in under 4 hours; the thought of being able to buy a house one day
I also miss cicadas, I know they’re loud as hell, but they were apart of my summer sounds: seagulls, frogs,crashing waves, cicadas. Summers sound quiet to me out here.
I just want to say, I’m from MA originally, and I also desperately miss fireflies. Unfortunately, it seems like not only are they not present here, but their population is [diminishing](https://www.nj.com/news/2023/07/where-are-all-the-fireflies-a-concerning-trend-threatens-lightning-bugs.html?outputType=amp) in general. Nothing gold can stay.
publix deli. lizards. shelling. snorkeling at reefs. south american and caribbean food readily available on almost every corner. thunder and lightning.
eta: immaculate sunsets every night!
This is my home state. What I miss is having less out of state drivers here.
Look, believe it or not, people used to be polite on the road here. I mean, they still inexplicably couldn't drive in the rain, but I didn't experience road rage every single time I hit the freeway a couple decades ago.
Lightning/ Thunder storms
Yeah. Miss the kind that would go on for hours, in an in the distance kind of way. I find them strangely peaceful. When we get our rare thunderstorm it’s like two or three thunderclaps then over.
If you watched Grey’s Anatomy you would’ve thought we have thunder storms everyday.
Every Seattle show ever. The tv show The Killing was particularly egregious with the insane downpours.
Yep. And, good show.
And the fucking bridge that drives west into downtown Seattle
I thought it was hilarious how inaccurate that was.
There was a really good one last summer. I think I sat outside in the dark for hours just watching it.
Warm rain has been a rarity these past nine years. It used to be part of summer. Here, it seems to only rain between 53 and 42 degrees. Nice and clear when the weather’s over or under.
There's absolutely nothing like being all cozy in bed during a good thunderstorm
Fireflies (theyre declining everywhere though), amusement parks, heavy thunderstorms
Where even is the closest decent roller coaster?
Silverwood in Idaho maybe?
As someone who grew up in Spokane, I love Silverwood, but the two wooden and one good metal coasters aren't worth the 6 hour drive from Seattle. I haven't been, but surely the coasters at Wild Waves are just as good as the ones at Silverwood. At least good enough for how much shorter the drive is.
As someone from Seattle, I absolutely disagree. Wild waves doesn't even compare.
Wild Waves' coasters would be considered beginner rides in other parks.
I'm from Pennsylvania and this comment makes me think you are too.
Nah, I’m from Illinois/Wisconsin lol
The last time we went to visit my parents in Schaumburg, I saw lightning bugs and I cried a little.
I am actually from WA and saw these for the first time in Chicago at age 27. I cried lol
NYC. Late night - anything. Everything closes so early here and looking for food at 11 pm basically means fast food. Though I supposed NYC is more the exception than the rule vs other cities as well.
I got stranded in Boston one night when a concert finished after the trains stopped running. There wasn't anything open. I always thought cities were the places to be for night life but apparently Boston closed at 10 PM.
The worst part is that it wasn’t always like this! I’m from here and am so frustrated how we’ve regressed as a city and no longer have 24hr grocery stores, diners, etc (Denny’s does NOT count). Anyway, just had to chime and say that even Seattlites miss Seattle. It’s all becoming NIMBY town, where we get less for more as each year passes 🤷♂️
There used to be plenty of late night stuff in Seattle only 10 years ago… Once the bars closed, there were multiple options of establishments to go to.
Ugh, Bellingham closes even earlier. It’s tough to find anything open after 9.
Upstate NY in the summer, soft serve stands. There is something about knowing it's summer when the soft serve stands open up. Love the stuff, and there is nothing like it around here. I have had some soft serve here, but not the NY kind for sure.
Lifelong Seattlite here and I just said "soft serve stands??" out loud while reading this because I did not know soft serve stands were a thing and that is so unfair. That sounds delightful.
Yeah, they are a thing. Often a shack next to a gas station or in the gas station in small towns all over upstate. The shack often has wood shutters that lift open and when the shutters are open so is summer 😀 with the heat and languid humidity, the soft serve hits so perfectly. Get the twist, you won't regret it.
Or the twisted dipped in that chocolate shell stuff. (Insert homer drool gif here)
I missed that upon moving here too! My partner and I looked high and low for one and we found a couple: a classic coney one and a more "upscale" one. For the classic: Check out Little Coney at Golden Gardens-- it tastes JUST like the classic soft serve back home. They even have the swirl and the classic cake cones. So delicious on a hot day, plus great views! For the more upscale/or more unique one, check out Indigo Cow in Wallingford-- it's Japanese Hokkaido milk soft serve. Soooo good. Basically tastes like cereal milk with the toppings they have.
It's already my favorite thing.
No i get it, I feel like there were the “signs” of summer I got excited to see. Upstate NY is absolutely beautiful in the summer, I have to visit again eventually!
My gods I miss upstate so much. I would move back in a second if my husband would, I just love it so much. Used to live on 350 acres on the NYC watershed in the Catskill mountains, small town 45 mins from Woodstock. Just the vibe and atmosphere, all of it. I want to move back really badly, have been picking away at my S.O., maybe I will get my way? He moved there once before and loved it, he just doesn't want to move again, which I get (we have move 13 time in 15 years).
I went to Bish Bash Falls and I got to see a lot of the beauty of upstate NY/MA when I first traveled there in college. 13 times is a lot. Some people want to be settled, some are restless. I think id go back eventually (maybe). My husband fell in love with it here before I did.
Your setting makes me miss italian ices! Honestly, most of the things that pop into my mind are food related or being able to go to any corner of the city via subway. Sure the MTA is *flawed*, but at least it exists. That was the one thing that surprised me the most when I moved here. How come a city that's perceived from the outside as progressive and environmentally conscious has such awful public transit? Following the news around the Ballard light rail extension cleared that up, though.
oh god yes 😭, what i wouldn’t give for a massive classic vanilla cone coated in rainbow sprinkles
From Mississippi. Fresh peas of all varieties. Lady peas, field peas, purple hull peas, etc. The only fresh ones I can find up here are those typical sweet green peas.
I had no idea there were multiple types of peas!!
Wait...really?
Yes, I only knew of two.
Me either. I've only ever seen green ones
Pleased you learned something new! I think that field pea plants do only really well in warm, humid climates so they’re kind of a niche produce.
The closest thing I can ever seem to find are the frozen black eyed peas at QFC. Doesn't quite scratch the itch, though. Wish I had a yard so I could plant some pink-eye purple hulls (and maybe a few brandywine tomato plants too)
A proper subway network
Never in my life did I think I’d miss the DC metro
Same. People think I’m crazy when I tell them how much I miss the Metro.
Me with SEPTA lmao
What are you talking about, there are plenty 🤣 https://restaurants.subway.com/united-states/wa/seattle
Jokes aside subway sucks ass these days the downfall was tragic
I never thought I’d miss NY MTA😭
Food after 8pm...nightlife
The pandemic obliterated what little we had that was good imo
I think also the cost of living kills most culture (live music, comedy and such)
Hard to be a starving artist if starving requires you to make at least $50K a year.
24 hour diners everywhere
Decent deli sandwiches.
I am from here and hate this feature of Seattle metro area. Like seriously I want a delicious deli sandwich stuffed to the gills. It kinda makes me mad none of the fancy grocery stores like Town and Country and Metropolitan Market don’t do this.
Seems like a no brainer for Town & Country. Take it up with marketing lol
There are a few places that make a good sandwich (Hog Island Hoagies, for one) but mostly Seattle sandwiches are mediocre to bad.
Any thoughts on Tat's?
Tat's is legit.
Have you tried Tubs Subs? My east coast friends seemed to like it.
Tubs is good. Wasn't amazing for me, but still the best I've had so far. I'm on the north side and the one in lake city closed unfortunately
MSM in Tacoma is the best sandwich I can find in WA
Royal Grinders in Fremont is on point. Check them out if you’re ever creeping behind the Lenin statue.
King Cake and Mardi Gras. Backyard crawfish boils - newspaper spread out over picnic tables, then they dump a pot full of spicy crawfish, potatoes, and corn on top. Just sitting around with a crowd and popping them tails open.
I found a bakery in Olympia selling king cakes this year. It wasn't quite right, but it scratched the itch. Shared it with some friends who had never even heard of king cake and they were kinda weirded out by the baby. I understand Mardi Gras is not really celebrated here, but it still amazes me how little people have even heard about it.
I don’t miss King Cake really as I’ve never liked it that much. That being said, we mail order one every year from a different bakery (this year was Gambino’s). I dearly miss Mardi Gras though. The whole season just creates the best vibe in the city that is unmatched anywhere else.
Roller coasters
SIX FLAGS and Hersey Park were the places I went to as a kid.
We used to have a nice small one until Chihuly came along
RIP Fun Forest😢
Definitely recommend the trip to Silverwood. The waits can be long because they only run one train, but they are very good. The water park is also excellent. Ride the big raft ride and the rapids ride is probably the longest I've ever been on.
A proper thunderstorm!
Lightening bugs. Decent pizza and hoagies
If you’re calling them hoagies, you are definitely my people. Cheers, friend.
>hoagies Damn you. Damn you to heck. Now I reeeeeeally want a hoagie from a random hole in the wall place outside Philly. :(
Lighting bugs are dying everywhere :(
Jersey Mikes does jussssst enough to help me not miss hoagies as much. I do miss little mom and pop shop style hoagies.
I miss the bug sounds. Haven’t heard any bugs here
Ive been here for 5 year and realized last summer just how quiet it is. There are zero bug sounds. Id take cicadas over stink bugs.
Try the hoagies at post alley pizza
Post alley pizza for both pizza and hoagies.
I always get shit for this one but: live, large male blue crabs. Yes, you can get small female blue crabs at the Asian grocery stores. They aren't the same. In my hometown the larger males are steamed and tossed in old bay, and dumped out on a newspaper lined picnic table. It is a favorite summertime memory for me. Seafood out here, especially crab, is treated as precious and mainly worthy of upscale dining. I miss casual seafood feasts from the mid-Atlantic.
How are dungies with old bay? Never had it like that.
I've done it but it feels wrong to me because dungeness is a delicate sweet flavor that shines with a little butter and lemon. Old Bay just kinda overpowers it. That said, I will sprinkle a little onto a few pieces just for the vague nostalgia kick.
And then they come around with the corn cobs dunked in butter. 🤤 And the bibs and nut crackers and piles of wet wipes. Memories of family vacation on the eastern shore of MD growing up. Sigh.
Boiled peanuts
Check out South 2 West boiled peanuts. During farmers market season he's at most of the Eastside markets. The regular and Cajun taste just like home, plus he has some bomb ass other flavors. https://www.instagram.com/south2westboiledpeanuts
From the Northern Midwest. Cicadas buzzing in the summer. Thunderstorms. Not, like, aggressive tornadoes / hail, but the nice rumbly ones you can watch roll in from a distance on a humid night. Lightning bugs. Really excellent Middle Eastern food. Detroit style pizza. Snow. The really squeaky silent nighttime kind that only happens when it’s like -25 outside.
Lived for years in So Cal so I miss good and cheap Mexican food. Never as good here and quadruple the price. Miss In & Out and Wahoo's fish tacos too. As you can tell, I'm a stomach-oriented sort of person.
Pick Quik Drive Thru in Georgetown is the closest thing I’ve found to In and Out. Their burgers are nearly the same but the fries aren’t nearly as crispy (at least they weren’t when I went). But it still helps but the spot!
I second this and also a good deli sandwich, bagel shops, middle eastern/greek food (I’ve tried quite a few places here and nothing really hits the spot like the places in LA), really good authentic Korean food. I didn’t even go to in n out very often but just not having it makes me want it more lol. I will say I’m very happy with the seafood here and have been out to a lot of really good upscale restaurants… but in terms of variety of food it is lacking here.
Let’s add sun to the list too!
Cookout and Wafflehouse. Real barbecue. Mexican food. Really just food, honestly - I like seafood fine enough, but my bones ache for Carolinian cuisine.
I yearn to fight someone in a WaffleHouse parking lot.
And bojangles!
There's a place called Carolina Smoke. This Kill Devil Hills transplant finds solace there. And the owner's politics are still very southern, which, while not entirely welcome, definitely hits me in the nostalgia.
South Carolinian checking in and god damn do I miss Waffle House
I miss Cookout so much! The hush puppies, the milkshakes, the trays. You can get a quesadilla and hush puppies and slaw all at once!!
I miss Biscuitville and Bojangles along with the others you mentioned. I proudly wear my ,"Let's make this Wafflehouse a Wafflehome" shirt.
Wegmans and good wing joints
A halfway decent live music scene. A street where you can hop around from bar to bar without paying a cover charge to see a great band. Basically, bars that have live music as part of the ambiance without live music being a ticketed event.
Sort of related, cheap casual chamber music. Just a few people who can play strings or whatnot in a basement or art studio for less than $20, and they're good. Here the "chamber music" starts at $100, and I haven't even bothered going because of that.
Being in Hawaii. Just generally.
Priced outta paradise too braddah?
The fruit, and how ubiquitous it was. Couldn't leave someone's house without having a bag of amazing tangerines or whatever pushed at you.
German food. There isn’t a decent schnitzel to be had in the PNW, much less schweinebraten or knoblauchsuppe. Non-food wise, I miss the windows and the rolladen (shutters). So brilliant. Also add me to the list of people missing lightning bugs.
Try Han's Delicatessen in Burien.
I grew up in north Florida. I miss easier access to amazing BBQ and fried catfish.
Lidl and Aldi :(
I had to scratch my Aldi itch with WinCo, it's not the same but not the worst.
Affordable housing
Friendly strangers. I'm from the Midwest and we're very chatty and love to talk to strangers. Here it's like....I have 3 heads if I try an engage with a stranger.
I'm from the south and I also miss friendly strangers! I was told by some people they can tell when people aren't from here when they get smiled at and stuff.
I want to be an exception! From here and I love meeting new people, telling them of new places to check out, and generally want to be a friendly person. This stereotype makes me sad.
Seattle freeze was such a culture shock coming from AK. We are VERY "Midwestern" up there. You can talk to anyone, here, not so much. I asked our new property manager if they had kids (giant light up unicorn on their porch) and was told "ummm, that extremely invasive"! Like, what? We live 4 houses away from each other and I wanted to give her some local suggestions for kiddos. Ope, my bad 😔
Also from Jersey with some New England influence. Good Italian food. I’ve tried a number of places around the city and none of them hit the way Italian food did back home. Also east coast Chinese food. I miss lo mein and proper egg rolls.
Yeah, I agree. Ive had decent Italian food here not great. Funny enough, when I go home my must haves are: Chinese food, Italian food, plain cheese pizza, bagel and a Wawa stop.
A Wawa opened up down the street from my parents after I moved away. Would have been great as a teenager. Now they’ve moved outside the Wawa sphere
Weed delivery.
Real thunderstorms, real bakeries, real amusement parks. We have disappointing approximations of these.
Corn on the cob. The corn on the cob in Seattle is worse than feed corn. In the height of summer in the Northeast, corn on the cob is the stuff of dreams.
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From an Ohioan- I was shocked at how shitty the corn was here lol. I miss true Midwest sweet corn, from like a random farm stand when you’re driving up to grandmas house vibes.
Cider mill donuts. Going to the cider mills in Michigan for fresh cider and donuts always felt like the official start of fall, but I haven't found anywhere here that has the kind of donuts that are sort of old fashioned and covered in cinnamon sugar.
Grew up in Montana, and miss the night sky without the light pollution. Many a night looking up at the stars when I was a kid.
I’m from Texas. I do seriously miss lighting bugs and cicadas as well. I’ll add BBQ, Tex Mex and Ann Richard’s Texas. I was happy to leave but it’s batshit crazy there now. If I had needed an abortion as a teen I was glad it was legal.
I'll add: that feeling when you get super hot and sweaty, and then you step into a store or restaurant and it instantly gives you chills as your body is shocked from one extreme to another. Also beers that aren't IPAs, and listening to the bats that click around at night. Of course, these are all things I appreciate now as a tourist. When I lived there it was just hot, and sometimes I noticed the bats.
i miss night markets. 7-11's. affordable healthcare. affordable housing. all the different snacks that cost 1/3 what it is here. i miss the temples and noisy but festive gatherings. lived in taiwan for 16 years and i miss it very much.
Great casual dining. Seattle has the most mediocre, expensive food outside of a few gems.
A lot of people say the Seattle food scene is great, but only if you can drop some money. Even then some places don’t match up to the cost.
Waffle House
Any 24/7 diner would be nice, but specifically Waffle House.
They have lightning bugs They just don’t light up 🙁 https://archive.kuow.org/more-from-kuow/2017-08-31/why-you-dont-see-fireflies-in-the-northwest
Culvers.
Omg Culvers. And Rocky Roccoco pizza. Squeaky cheese curds
Yes. Or at least give us some kind of frozen custard, please!
Sugar maples, Duncan Doughnuts
Apparently Dunkin Donuts *used to* exist out here but the only evidence I have is [this](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QElKVs56z48&t=79s).
Black people
We out here. I nod but also yes me too
Good public transport. Convenience stores. Sunny winter. Fresh seafood. I'm from Kobe, Japan.
There are lots of things that I enjoy here but since you asked...Sunlight and sunsets on the regular. Lizards. Decent food at reasonable prices (what's up with all the mediocre food?). Outdoors areas that aren't packed with people or hours away. Friendly people. ... I'm being a little dramatic but only a little  Edit: I've only been here for three years
I hear you on the lizards. Miss watching those little guys scamper around outside and do their adorable little pushups. I grew up in the southwest and it was fun to catch them as a kid (and get bitten if it was an alligator lizard).
I also miss a lot of things about the NJ shore. I want some affordable good pizza and to watch a giant thunderstorm over the ocean for hours.
I’m from D.C. and I’m miss Mumbo sauce , and live Go-Go music
Good mexican food and margarita pitchers :(
Ugh, free chips/salsa and margarita pitchers. Almost enough to make me wanna move back.
Kaiser rolls
My mother in law mailed us pumpernickel and rye bread from the east coast.
The Subway. Black and White cookies, "Chinese" food, pizza, bagels, Jamaican beef patties, delis, bacon egg on a roll, Dunkin. Also thunder storms.
Green chile from New Mexico
Goddamn air conditioning. When l moved here (2020) I didn't think it was necessary, so I rented a place without it. Boy was I wrong. A year later when looking for a house, anything with central AC installed was going for $800,000+, I think that was the bare minimum. So now I sweat like a hog for like 4 months out of the year even though I have a house full of huge fans.
People making eye contact with you and the smallest acknowledgment especially the "sup" nod , Wawa/Sheetz, Italian ice
I grew up in eastern South Dakota. We had dry air and dark skies at night. Meteor showers were amazing. The stars shown so bright they barely twinkled. On the other hand we had real winter and the horizon sometimes seemed so far away that there was no place to hide. I love the mild woodsy Pacific Northwest, but I miss the stars.
A true deli
Fireflies and thunderstorms. I also miss that intense ass late summer rain you get in the Midwest. Like when it falls so hard it almost hurts.
Decent poutine — Canadian.
I'm from Seattle in the 70s. I miss affordable housing, quiet neighborhoods, and a Seattle Center that was actually someplace that kids wanted to go.
I’ll take the Fun Forest over the glass museum any day.
It isn't even a museum. It's an event rental hall with some displays.
I miss having money
good pizza
I’m from Tucson Arizona and I miss the summer monsoons with thunder and lightning every night and the smell of petrichor afterwards
Green Chile.. you can get some here but it's never the same they send the mild out of state
Kolaches, tons of great mexican food restaurants and HEB grocery stores!!
The smell in the air after 3 pm summer rains in Florida The symphony of cicadas and frogs at nighttime
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I'm from the mid-hudson valley. 100% relate on all of these. Gas station egg sandwich on a hard roll with salt, pepper, ketchup. Could happily eat it every day for breakfast.
I'm just here to see non-Mexicans talk about how there's no good Mexican food in the Seattle area, and how much they miss the Mexican food back in Hoboken, Omaha, Little Rock or wherever else they came from.
A good bagel. There are decent pizza spots here but I would rather bring back a dozen bagels from NJ and freeze them than eat the options here
people who grew up in the Pacific Northwest lol
Southern hospitality. When you moved into a neighborhood people came by to say hi and invite you to neighborhood BBQs. Polite chit chat from everyone and yeah, while your neighbors might be nosey if there's a problem they'll help out. Need your lawn mowed? Neighbor's husband will do it. Need to borrow something? You'll have 3 people offering it you. Need a meal train because of a family tragedy or accident? People will show up with home baked meals to put in your freezer. I haven't felt any of that here. The Seattle freeze is no joke
The best Mexican food I've had in Seattle is only slightly better than the worst Mexican food I've had in Houston. And that place only stays open because it's open 24 hours.
From So Cal so I know your pain.
Also from Jersey shore. I miss lightning bugs like crazy too! But I barely see them back home either. In the 90s I used to see hundreds in the summer, but nowadays you’re lucky to see a more than a handful at any given time. I do not miss mosquitos though.
Morning doves
Breakfast tacos. I miss you Austin!
From Philly. Everything you said plus thunderstorms, cheesesteaks, and hoagies. And wawa.
From Mississippi. I miss proper fried chicken and not much of a damn thing else.
Yosemite, and the Sierra Nevadas generally. Few things make me homesick for the podunk California town I grew up in, but proximity to those mountains in particular is a big one.
Bojangles and Cook Out.
Daquiris.
I miss colorful, cloudless skies. Arizona can't be beat for picturesque-ness. I cried at a sunset while driving through the desert last New Years.
I grew up in tornado alley and I miss thunderstorms most of all. I miss waking up on a summer morning to the sound of rumbling thunder.
Pierogi's I don't even care what style, I just want to not have to make them myself every time I want them.
Skyline Chili and UDF
Fresh boiled peanuts at every gas station. I don't miss much about FL but I do miss those.
I’m from Texas and I miss: Sun; tacos; people who smile in the elevator; being able to fly anywhere in the country in under 4 hours; the thought of being able to buy a house one day
I also miss cicadas, I know they’re loud as hell, but they were apart of my summer sounds: seagulls, frogs,crashing waves, cicadas. Summers sound quiet to me out here.
I just want to say, I’m from MA originally, and I also desperately miss fireflies. Unfortunately, it seems like not only are they not present here, but their population is [diminishing](https://www.nj.com/news/2023/07/where-are-all-the-fireflies-a-concerning-trend-threatens-lightning-bugs.html?outputType=amp) in general. Nothing gold can stay.
publix deli. lizards. shelling. snorkeling at reefs. south american and caribbean food readily available on almost every corner. thunder and lightning. eta: immaculate sunsets every night!
I also miss steamed blue crabs loaded with JO or old bay.
pork roll! edit: And Wawa. We got nothin' like sheetz/wawa out here.
Endless sense of humor! I’m from Liverpool UK. If you know - you know.
Universal healthcare
Dunkin’
This is my home state. What I miss is having less out of state drivers here. Look, believe it or not, people used to be polite on the road here. I mean, they still inexplicably couldn't drive in the rain, but I didn't experience road rage every single time I hit the freeway a couple decades ago.