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[Jensen]

I don't think I would live on the Oregon Coast year-round. Too much rain. I take the kids to Newport a couple of times a year, stay in a yurt at the state park and Beverly Beach and spend half a day at the aquarium. Eat some grease at Mo's. That's about all the fun I can stand.

I've lived in Oregon a few times. My place is in WA, across from Hood River ( which is currently booming and getting super expensive). Portland does pretty well for being such a small city, I love Powells Books and PSU and the little Korean markets and Uwajimaya but it's nice to be back in the woods by bedtime.

I thought this (hicksville PNW) was a pretty neat area to raise kids in but I'm having second thoughts now...my daughter is starting high school next year, which is how old I was when my folks moved here. It's a strange experience, bunch of her friends are the kids of people I went to school with...lot of them I didn't care for and their kids seem kind of the same. This area isn't as inbred as...Maupin...but there's plenty of meth and stupidity and small town BS...

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I lived in Oregon from 1992 to 2004. I went to middle school, high school, and college there.

Oregon's pretty cool except for a few things:
1) you can't pump your own gas there because some jerk blew up a gas station in Eastern Oregon several years ago because he was smoking a cigarette while filling up. So the good folks in the Oregon State Legislature thought that the best way to prevent any future happenings of that would be to make it so EVERY PERSON IN OREGON HEREAFTER WOULD NEVER EVER PUMP THEIR OWN GAS BECAUSE NO ONE IN OREGON COULD EVER BE SMART ENOUGH NOT TO...oh crap, sorry, the caps lock got stuck. Anyway, it sucks.
2) There's no sales tax, which seems pretty cool, except when you want to, you know, fund your schools or something. Also, high property taxes.
3) Recently there's been a movement to totally outlaw over-the-counter pseudophedrine because Oregon is like the methamphetamine capital of the west coast or something. Seriously, they're making it so you can't get Sudafed without a prescription. Or Thera-flu (which the lady who's lobbying for this law to be passed claims makes the best, "fluffiest" meth that gives you the best high EVER).
4) They hate Californians. Which is just plain bad business.
5) You can't smoke in bars in a lot of the major (major for Oregon) cities (wait...I don't smoke anymore so that should be in the "plus" column [a column which I'm too lazy to actually do]).

Other than that, Oregon's pretty great. I went to U of O and there were a lot of crazy, fun, liberal people there.

I totally disagree with the statement that Oregon is the new Canada. As much as I think some of the things in Oregon are stupid, I'd never liken it to Canada.

[kermo]

Oregon is bad

Stop if if you can

Here it comes, here it comes

Now it's after you!

Flee to someplace new.

Run away... Run away...

From the penthouse to the prison
To the humble piedterre
Are they taking up the cry
In the brothel
In the castle
On the crowded boulevard
Do they sing the dreadful words


Oregon is bad

Stop it if you can

Here it comes

Here it comes



Oregon is bad

Stop it if you can

Run away

Run away

--John Linnell

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[Tiger Beer]

And also the METH epidemic.. thats all across the United States.. (the valley of California is the worst).. but many, many states are outlawing the pharmaceutical drugs that are used to make Meth. National epidemic.

Here in Las Vegas, I went to a supermarket, and the entire pharmeceutical aisle was locked up.. you had to get an attendent to get into that aisle - thats because of the Meth epidemic - too many people just stealing that stuff off the shelves.

Regarding the no-smoking in bars of Oregon. Really? Even more incentive to live in Oregon! I loved living in California and being able to go out and NOT have that smoking hacking second-hand cough the next morning from smokers. Plus, most (guys) in particular in California found it an ideal way to meet women - wait until they step outside for their cigarette, and coincide your trip with them. (It also made us non-smokers like me consider at the time picking up the habit - at least in a bar).

The non-smoking bars is a very progressive measure.. I guess CA is most progressive (as always), followed by NYC.. and then Oregon! Not bad. Any other states anyone knows of that has followed that measure?

I also liked the no pumping your own gas policy. Prices seemed the same as Washington State.

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[periwinkle]

Man, I had a hard time finding a job in PDX. The economy seemed a bit depressed when I was there in 1997, but my wallet was pretty depressed, too, so maybe it was just me... God, I LOVED living in bridgetown... Cool city, cool people. I TOTALLY miss McMennamin's pubs... Hefeweitzen is yummy....

[Tiger Beer]

Just took a trip up to Oregon. Drove up through Nevada and then flew back to Vegas from Portland.

First we entered into Lakeview - nothing special - cowboy eastern country. A book boasted about the fact they didn't have any 'development' by the means of strip malls or whatever else. That was true.

Klamath Falls - they have a little bit of everything there. Looked interesting enough. Even the little downtown was alright - and a large hill overlooking the smallish city. Interesting enough. This did have a lot of development - every chain you can imagine is there.

Medford - looked like one big suburb. Flatter, bigger, less interesting version of Klamath Falls about 90 miles away.

Grants Pass - with a nice sign saying 'its the climate'. I liked that city.. had lunch.. picked up real estate mags out of curiousity - half a million dollars for housing throughout southern oregon? what the hell is wrong with that picture!!??!!

Crescent City, CA - drove through the Redwoods to get there.. looked like a surfing community and more typical of California.. and a very nice little place.

Brookings, OR - the Banana Belt. Looked like a retirement/fishing community.. small.. great climate - everyone boasts about that. Not much happening there though.

Coos Bay - Oregon's 'Bay Area'. Looked interesting enough - very industrial, but had a little bit of everything.. the hills around the bay were san francisco-esque in some ways.

Florence, OR - Very nice community. Lots of sand dunes everywhere.. made an effort to run up to the top of one to look down the other side - didn't work - it was too big, and the top just revealed one hell of a lot more sand.

Corvallis, OR - college town - evident everywhere. Finally starting seeing a lot more asian restaurants around here.

Salem, OR - definetely an under-rated place. Not bad. A family place. You wouldn't go there to party or anything like that.

Portland, OR - still the same! Saw lots of Kerry stickers everywhere.. and even a Kucinich bumpersticker. Air America (the liberal news network) played on the radio stations. Very political.. Its still the same. Bookstores everywhere, etc.

Anyhow, nice to drive around in the state of Oregon again. Oh, and saw a really old friend of mine and his Korean wife and their 6-month-old daughter. A nice trip.

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