Hi Ikken
Welcome! (when will you actually be here?)
The good news is we get less snow, and probably less rain than you get where you are now. The bad news is you might lament that it never gets warm "enough".

LaConner is one of my favorite little towns, and there is lots of great riding around there.

I can't say much about skiing, I know nothing; but we do have lots of great farm cooperatives so you can get amazing veggies in the summer; and we're close enough to California to get good stuff from down there all year long.

Elliott Bay Books is my favorite bookstore too, but as I recall, there are nice book stores in LaConner as well.