Reason 3: easiest settling in at work

It is true.  After university, I worked for 4 companies (1 small, 1 medium and 2 big organizations) in Hong Kong, 3 companies (2 medium 1 big organizations) in Melbourne, and here I am, with a small organization in Seattle.

This is the easiest settling in since I started my full time work-life 17 years ago.  Maybe it's because there is no "internal client", so everyone is relaxed with the language, tone and behaviour.  Maybe it's because after that many years of work life, I have a knack of settling in.......

But, I know, down deep in my reasoning, my peers here are so sweet and cute and funny.

At work, we use Slack, a messaging software like Skype, for instant messaging.  My peers had a Haiku feverish one day, everyone of them transformed into a poet and the Slack conversations were all Haiku, ended with programming pseudocode generating Haiku poems......

I had to save the entire conversation history to show my kids. That's how cute they are!

One afternoon, I had a causal chat with Ryan, a workmate, about his hobbies.  He homemakes from icecream to soap to wood work...... I told him how I attempted to homemake lipsticks but failed, and how I would love to experiment soap and candle making.

Monday morning, when I arrived at my desk, I saw these on it: homemade soap bars and homemade Apple Butter!!!!!  How Sweeeeet!  

  

When Ryan came into work, passing my desk, I stopped him :"Ryan!  Come give me a hug!!".............. :)

Reason 2 - Yellow Magic School Bus(es)!!!!!

In Australia, kookaburra's laughs make me chuckle every time without fail;

Here, in Seattle, seeing a Yellow Magic School Bus puts a big smile on my face!
and NOT JUST ONE!  MANY magic school buses...... picking up the students to and from schools......

I love the school bus system here, it makes my life as a parent so much easier.  And the bus stop is literally 20 walking steps from home front door, if not 25 steps.

And what's more? It's FREE of CHARGE!  Well, kind of blend in the tax and other local government charges.

Begining of the Love Journey - My Love to Seattle - Reason 1: Greenness

To be 100% blunt truthful, Seattle to me isn't love at first sight.  The bond between us is more like a blind date.  Moving to Seattle was purely at random and the longing to explore. we might've gone to any other city in the world.....

Spring is the love season, so grows my love to her.......

 Reason 1 - the landscape, the mountains and the GREEN!

I would be so miserable if I couldn't see green or ocean, that's why I wasn't feeling like to do much when I was in Florence (Sorry, I know and totally agree that Florence is the paradise for art lovers).

And this is the ONE of the 3 conditions for me to decide where in Seattle to live.

This is what I see in the early mornings (6.10am) on the way walk to bus stop.  It's a 30mins pleasant walk, isn't it much better than workout on a treadmill in a gym?  Now I hope this reason stays throughout the year even in the wet rainy days..............