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You don't have to move to Seattle to know what the people here are like. By and large, there are only two types of folks here. The first is well illustrated by this excerpt from an AP article about Toyota's dominance of the hybrid market.

Peter Kesner, a devout environmentalist, bought a Honda Civic hybrid four years ago to show everyone that he wants to save the planet. The only problem: no one noticed, since, other than the hybrid badge on the trunk, it looked like a regular Civic. So he traded it in for a Toyota Prius. Suddenly, strangers began stopping him on the street to ask about his hybrid, with its space-age styling and miserly mileage. "That's a big part of why I bought the Prius. It opens up conversations, and I push my theory that we've got to do our best to conserve." The Honda, on the other hand, didn't deliver what Kessner craved: green street cred. "If I'm driving a hybrid," he says, "I want people to know it."
The other type? They've bookmarked web sites for out-of-town real estate.