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The Seattle Traveler

Five #1 Reasons to Visit Seattle

by Mary Jo on November 6th, 2006

The downtown Seattle city core

If you are looking for reasons to visit Seattle, here are five #1 rankings that the city has scored.

Seattle is the #1 U.S city with the largest percentage of library cardholders.  (Yes, we are a literate bunch.)

Seattle is the #1 U.S. state with the highest per capita share of technology dependent jobs.

Seattle is the #1 fittest U.S. city.  (Source:  Men’s Fitness Magazine, February 2005)

Seattle is the #1 U.S. city in sales of sunglasses per capita.

Seattle/Tacoma is the #1 U.S. metropolitan area in arts-related businesses and organizations per capita.  (Source:  Americans for the Arts)

Of course, there are lots of other reasons to visit the Seattle/Tacoma area.  These listed here are just part of the reason why so many of our visitors turn into permanent residents.

 

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