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Toadkiller
Member # 425
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I know we've got some North-westerners, anybody in Portland? I've just accepted a job out there and will be moving next month. Anybody got a scoop on neighborhoods?
Oh, and hurray for me!
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The Ginger Beacon
Member # 1585
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Hurray for you! I'm a bit of a ways away from there to have anything to say though.
Good luck and congrats.
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LOA
Member # 49
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I have family that lives there... it's nice... good sized town, but it doesn't FEEL too hectic, like Seattle area towns do.
There are some weird traffic configurations, but once you get used to them, there are no problems.
I think you'll like it :-)
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Peregrinus
Member # 504
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And it's close enough to Seattle that visits are possible.
--Jonah
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Lee
Member # 393
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I've only driven through, but it looked nice (from a distance, since I drove through on I-5). One day we intend to do another fly-drive up the West coast, but starting from SF this time - the landscape between LA & SF got to be a bit tedious, plus there was the whole getting-lost-in-LA-on-the-freeways-in-rush-hour thing - so we can go along highway 101, see some redwoods, and maybe take in Portland. We might even go to Seattle again, since my wife thinks Charles is lovely.
All this depends on what age we think it'd be fair to subject our daughter to long days in a car. She seems to have inherited my attention span. . . Ooh! There's a hailstorm outside! *rushes off to look out the window*
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Peregrinus
Member # 504
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I'd kinda like to meet you guys, too, Lee. *heh*
--Jonah
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Toadkiller
Member # 425
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Well, I'm hear and have been for a couple of weeks now. I like it, now I just have to find a place to live before the family comes out end of May.
Work is interesting too, which is always nice.
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Jason Abbadon
Member # 882
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quote: Originally posted by Peregrinus: And it's close enough to Seattle that visits are possible.
--Jonah
Whereas it's six weeks at warp by freighter from my house.
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AndrewR
Member # 44
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Oregon - to me - always seems to be the forgotten sister of the other two west-coast states...
Wasn't the Goonies filmed there? That always seemed very beautiful to me.
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Shik
Member # 343
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Yes, it was. And you can actually go visit all the places.
Portland to me will always make me think of Bruce Campbell & Sleater-Kinney.
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Peregrinus
Member # 504
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quote: Originally posted by Jason Abbadon: quote: Originally posted by Peregrinus: And it's close enough to Seattle that visits are possible.
Whereas it's six weeks at warp by freighter from my house.
Yeah, if yer talkin' one-a them old warp 2 jobbies. Find an Orion smuggler, and you're in business -- but it'd be expensive.
--Jonah
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Jason Abbadon
Member # 882
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Ya know, I checked apartment prices in Portland the other night just for kicks... The webpage has a disclaimer about how not to be shocked- "Portland has cost of living rates 20% higher than the country's adverage".
Waaaay cheaper than living in Fort Lauderdale.
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Peregrinus
Member # 504
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And closer to me. *heh*
--Jonah
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Charles Capps
Member # 9
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I'm prolly gonna be down in the area in the next week or three. Prolly should try the meetup organization thing...
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Peregrinus
Member # 504
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Oh, hey, Charles. You wanna meet for pizza again sometime?
--Jonah
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AndrewR
Member # 44
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"Meetup.com" are a bunch of money-hungry arseholes. Had a group of people - one of the first and then they introduced fees and then they upped those fees again and again. Redicioulous - we worked up a good little community of friends and removed ourselves from the 'Meetup' people.
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Peregrinus
Member # 504
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I don't think it requires a site. We all have Flare, and many of us are on AIM, MSN, or MySpace, so there's added messaging potential there. The '03 Seattle gathering aside, it's usually been pretty easy for me to arrange meeting up with someone or someones.
--Jonah
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Charles Capps
Member # 9
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Well, I wasn't referring to using their service itself, just doing the whole thing, whatever.
Timeline is the issue...
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