I was just thinking today about when I first moved to this area from California. I flew into Sea-Tac to visit the UW where I had been admitted to the CSE department as a grad student. Waiting for my SuperShuttle, I was struck by the number of SUVs that drove by, and kept thinking WTF? Why does everyone drive these friggin' trucks. Back in Cali there were far more sedans and smaller cars both in the Bay Area and San Diego. Of course this was back in 1992, and things have probably changed down there (for the worse), but definitely it struck me as different about Seattle.