Portland, OR

[Dave Benjamin]

If you move to that side of the river just make sure you're not directly downwind of the paper mill or the sewage plant.

 

[turbodriver]

If you move to that side of the river just make sure you're not directly downwind of the paper mill or the sewage plant.

Second.... I almost bought a house over there. I also know people who have. What a mistake.

 

[Buckaroo]

Actually we refer to them as well educated progressives. I do feel right at home around here. My neighbors are professional people that don't make stupid statements like trying to categorize the entire population of a diverse metropolitan area as "hippies and dope smoking tree huggers." In fact one of my neighbors has a degree in forestry and works for a wood products company. I'll ask him how much dope he smoked while hugging trees today. I've got engineers living on either side of me. I'll check to see how much dope them smoked today and if they hugged any trees. Probably negative on the trees because it's wet and windy right now. Not the best weather for tree hugging because the moss gets all over your shirt.

Our area is noted for abundant parks, recreation, scenic beauty, and novel land use/planning. I'm about 1.5 hours from Timberline Ski Resort which is getting a bunch of snow right now and about 1.75 hours from some gorgeous beaches. Newer homes in the neighborhood are about 600K which is chump change for those "hippies and dope smoking tree huggers" so I guess there will be even more of them to contend with.

The one thing we lack is folks like Buckaroo. I just don't talk to many folks that sound like him. But I can always turn on the Springer show I guess....

I can see why you would rather be called a progressive, being that the term "liberal" has such a negative connotation to it - especially with Howard "Yaaaargh" Dean head of the DNC and all.

Sure there are a lot of half-million plus $ homes to be had all over the place, thanks to the Socialistic "Urban Growth Boundary" that artificially inflates real estate while preventing private citizens the right to sell their land to developers.

 

[Corona]

ISure there are a lot of half-million plus $ homes to be had all over the place, thanks to the Socialistic "Urban Growth Boundary" that artificially inflates real estate while preventing private citizens the right to sell their land to developers.

O yes, those horrible Portlanders and their liberal, liveable city! Whatever were they thinking, passing those land-use laws in Oregon?

Why, the blight of urban sprawl is much more attractive...just ask anyone from Phoenix, Las Vegas, Los Angeles, Seattle, Orlando, Miami, Denver, San Francisco, etc, etc, etc, ad nauseum...

C

 

[Dave Benjamin]

I can see why you would rather be called a progressive, being that the term "liberal" has such a negative connotation to it - especially with Howard "Yaaaargh" Dean head of the DNC and all.

Sure there are a lot of half-million plus $ homes to be had all over the place, thanks to the Socialistic "Urban Growth Boundary" that artificially inflates real estate while preventing private citizens the right to sell their land to developers.

Liberal schmiberal. Call us what you'd like. I don't feel stigmatized by the term. At least most of the DNC leadership can speak in complete sentences and use proper grammar.

There are reasons that Portland has been rated as one of the best places to live in the US. Our land use and civic planning is not perfect but we've done a far better job than most urban areas.

If you did some research you'd find that one of the strongest forces in ORegon politics relating to growth and land planning was our beloved moderate Republican Governor Tom McCall.

If you like unfettered development and cheap tract houing there are plenty of places in that you'd be happy. Hopefully you're already in one.

 

[ricgall88]

Can any of you Alaska guys tell me how the LA “multiple airport” domicile thing is going to work?

Thanks...

 

[Huck]

I never seen a dope-smoking hippy terminate somebody's pension....