r/Cascadia • u/Emu_Fast • 1d ago

Met somebody who called this "The S.W.I.S.S."

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San Juan, Whatcom, Island, Skagit, Snohomish

Definitely a vibe up here :)

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u/stupidinternetname 1d ago

As long as we don't go with a Kitsap, King, Kittitas grouping and acronym.

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u/black-op345 1d ago

We can just call that WWI-90

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u/Emu_Fast 1d ago

Eww. Go back to Idaho.

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u/Confident_Sir9312 1d ago

Why? Do you have a problem with the kool kids klub?

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u/jspook 1d ago

Hey I can see my house from here

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u/4011isbananas 1d ago

Duchy of Skagit Valley in "After the End"

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u/Specialist-Hunt-1953 1d ago

That is amazing, as a Whatcom resident I approve

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u/Ex-PFC_WintergreenV4 1d ago

K•SWISS (take your pick of King or Kitsap)

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u/Emu_Fast 1d ago

Eh, honestly I'd cut the line off at the Snohomish river at the Marysville-Everett Bridge.

Kitsap and North has its own separate vibe and harder to reach.

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u/PapaTua 1d ago

Why?

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u/JimmyisAwkward SnoCo (WA) r/place 1d ago

B/c this region is distinct from the Seattle Metro

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u/notagreatgamer 1d ago

Grew up in Snohomish County, now live in Kitsap. I would not include Kitsap - very much a separate thing, much closer to Jefferson, Mason, and maybe Clallam. Allies, for sure. But definitely a different world out here.

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u/miriomeea 1d ago

Lived in Kitsap all my life and kitsap has like nothing to do with the county’s in this photo. Definitely better to be paired with Jefferson and such

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u/Torvaldicus_Unknown 1d ago

Skagit always

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u/Jimbobtom 1d ago

I be one of dem island bois

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u/StrangeMonotheist 1d ago

*SJWISS

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u/notapunk Foreign Legion 1d ago

J-SWISS

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u/StrangeMonotheist 1d ago

That would only work if it was Juan San

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u/Cum_Quat 1d ago

I love Jefferson County, too

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u/StrangeMonotheist 1d ago

*J as in Juan

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u/Cum_Quat 1d ago

Ok San Juan as SJ.

But I still love Port Townsend, Port Headlock, and Chimacum in Jefferson County

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u/StrangeMonotheist 1d ago

Yeah those are nice places. I'm living out in that vicinity currently. If it was up to only me I might buy land and build a family compound out there but my wife wants us to move back to civilization ASAP

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u/Cum_Quat 1d ago

Yes it is a little secluded on the peninsula. Especially when the hood canal bridge is down

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u/cfrig Salish Sea Ecoregion 1d ago

I have lived and worked a long time in the Snohomish Canton, so this is accurate. However, with my travel patterns, anything north of Highway 20 might as well be BC.

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u/romulusnr Washington 1d ago

I kind of love this. I don't think the area has much affinity towards Snohomish though. Idk

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u/Plus-Parking1777 22h ago

Ya know, I wonder why that game designers of post apocalyptic games never pick the PNW as a zone of survival?? We got a lot of craziness up here

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u/PersusjCP 19h ago

The Last of Us Part 2 takes place in Seattle, but I wish there were more. There's also a mod for Fallout 4 in development called Fallout Cascadia.

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u/Plus-Parking1777 18h ago

I heard about those, haven’t played the mod for cascadia yet

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u/allaboutwanderlust PNW Tree Octopus 1d ago

And I live riiiiiight there

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u/potatoe_dude69420 1d ago

as someone who has lived in this area my whole life I've never heard of this term 😭

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u/TProphet69 1d ago

I live inside that circle and have never heard of this.

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u/Emu_Fast 22h ago

I'm N Whidbey. Heard this from someone from Guemes running a regional business group

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u/dimpletown Washington 22h ago

"Hey what should we call this county made up of islands?"

Well it's at the end of the Strait of Juan de Fuca, how about 'San Juan'?

"Yeah, that's good. What about this other county of islands?"

I've already used my creative juices for today, just call 'Island', who's gonna care?