Oh my god, you’re so fragile about this, lol.

Look, at some point, adding rain stops making things more green. Once every square inch of uncovered ground is sprouting plants, you’ve more or less hit peak green. The types of plants change as you add more water, the scale of certain things will differ, maybe more moss/lichen visible, but you don’t go from the greener portions of the Midwest to the Pacific Northwest coast and marvel at how green it is. I’ve had this exact experience as someone who grew up in the Midwest and traveled to the PNW and “oh wow it’s so much greener” wasn’t something that came to mind at all. Get away from from the cities and farmland out east especially (and I grew up in and around wooded river valleys in the Midwest) and you’ve got thick forests with green ground cover of various heights and shapes, as far as the eye can see in places, just like you’ll find along the coast or just inland. The upper Midwest, Appalachia, the forested areas of New England, all very very green. To the point where the Pacific Northwest truly doesn’t stand out for being especially “green” when you visit from those locales. It’s still a marvel in its own right, don’t get me wrong, places like Hoh are very different from those other locations in a lot of ways, so it’s still absolutely worth a visit and awing in other ways, it just doesn’t stand out because there’s more green when you’re from those other areas. Conversely, I spent 6.5 years in California, and now a couple in eastern Washington. Once you acclimate to the nature in coastal central/southern California and here in eastern Washington and you make the trip to any of the places I’ve mentioned, it’s extremely fucking noticeable. It’s literally one of the first things I mention to my wife when we visit family in greener areas or head to the coast now, because it’s different from my day to day experiences presently.