About 30 miles or so outside of Seattle here. I'm originally from the Midwest but moved here 20 years ago and have never managed to get a IRL female friend. As soon as people find out I'm not progressive and -gasp- am conservative, all of a sudden I'm not invited out to things, they are too busy, they straight up start ignoring me in favor of other coworkers etc.. It really sucks to live in a deep blue shithole. But my youngest is 5 years away from graduating high school and I don't want to uproot them unless we start getting into refugee status (like secession or something). As for skin stuff, not much into cosmetics, but I love moisturizing with argan oil. I used to have bad cracking and bleeding problems with my hands in the winter, but argan oil seems to help tremendously.