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!
Posted by The Ginger Beacon (Member # 1585) on :
Hurray for you! I'm a bit of a ways away from there to have anything to say though.
Good luck and congrats.
Posted by LOA (Member # 49) on :
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 :-)
Posted by Peregrinus (Member # 504) on :
And it's close enough to Seattle that visits are possible.
--Jonah
Posted by Lee (Member # 393) on :
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*
Posted by Peregrinus (Member # 504) on :
I'd kinda like to meet you guys, too, Lee. *heh*
--Jonah
Posted by Toadkiller (Member # 425) on :
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.
Posted by Jason Abbadon (Member # 882) on :
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. Posted by AndrewR (Member # 44) on :
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.
Posted by Shik (Member # 343) on :
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.
Posted by Peregrinus (Member # 504) on :
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
Posted by Jason Abbadon (Member # 882) on :
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.
Posted by Peregrinus (Member # 504) on :
And closer to me. *heh*
--Jonah
Posted by Charles Capps (Member # 9) on :
I'm prolly gonna be down in the area in the next week or three. Prolly should try the meetup organization thing...
Posted by Peregrinus (Member # 504) on :
Oh, hey, Charles. You wanna meet for pizza again sometime?
--Jonah
Posted by AndrewR (Member # 44) on :
"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.
Posted by Peregrinus (Member # 504) on :
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
Posted by Charles Capps (Member # 9) on :
Well, I wasn't referring to using their service itself, just doing the whole thing, whatever.
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