The vast majority of musicians from Washington moved to big cities outside of Washington state. Dave Grohl of Nirvana is in Los Angeles, Kathleen Hanna of Bikini Kill moved to NYC and then to California. King Buzzo from the Melvins is still a local, but then he never made mainstream notoriety like Grohl or Hanna.

This is what I’m referring to, we get Grohl & Hanna back. I mean, if we’re keeping track.

On a serious note, we have lost a lot of our artists, but there were decades where most successful or famous artists of all types had lived here at some point in their lives. It was like an incubator. I don’t see that happening as much.

The weird thing, so have a lot of major corporations: Amazon, Boeing, Costco, Microsoft, UPS, etc.