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Location: closely held secret | Sure, sure... go ahead, make fun... But look who's got all the girls.
...seems to me Buckwheat and Spanky were always jealous of me, too. Say... how old did you guys say you were? |
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Location: Earth·SolarSystem·LocalInterstellarCloud·Local Bub | Those aren't your sisters? |
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Location: closely held secret | No, they're yours. |
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| Any sharper and you'll cut yourself my little furry friend.... Brilliant. |
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Location: Boise, Idaho | Waskel, you sound like my father. He's almost 80. He moved there by choice, though. |
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Location: SoCal | Portland was a good place until so many Californians moved up there. Grade school in Oswego (later Lake Oswego), high school in Mt. Angel (about 16 miles from Salem), then University of Oregon. Would still be living in the Willamette Valley if I hadn't moved down for my wife and daughter to be close to family.
Once Nike started growing and Intel moved in, no stopping the crazy Californians. |
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Location: Boise, Idaho | Tony, you may have gone to school in Mt. Angel under the supervision of my uncle, Irv Miller. He taught there and worked up to superintendent of schools. He had a nice home on the edge of Mt. Angel's golf course. I enjoyed going out to his house when I was a kid.
We were about a week away from settling there in 1978 and would probably still be there, but we decided to see if I could get a job in Idaho instead. I'm still at the same job. |
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Location: PDX | Originally posted by Tony Calman:
Portland was a good place until so many Californians moved up there. Grade school in Oswego (later Lake Oswego), high school in Mt. Angel (about 16 miles from Salem), then University of Oregon. Would still be living in the Willamette Valley if I hadn't moved down for my wife and daughter to be close to family.
Once Nike started growing and Intel moved in, no stopping the crazy Californians. They are still flooding the area. The Silicon Valley melt down pushed another wave of them up here. Some of them flocked to Bend, and that place is now trashed imho.
With Bay Area real estate profits in their pockets they were buying houses up here for cash and ramping up the housing market. Really not much that can be done about it. It is just tough for me to watch young kids and families just starting out getting pushed out of owning their own home in their home town.
Probably the same story could be told across the nation.
Oh, BTW, found the naptha, thanks folks.
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Location: Boise, Idaho | It's the same here. We run about 30% of immigrants from California, but the number of California homebuyers is much higher than that because there is a lot of buying and selling by people who never live in the house. House prices went up 25-35% in the last year and a lot of the first timers are priced out of the market. |
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Location: Eugene, Oregon | I'm happy I moved to Eugene. Portland property values had nearly doubled in some of the areas that couldn't give a house away, 10 years ago. I was transferred her in 04 with my work, so the move didn't cost a thing. My kids love it here. The schools are awesome.
I was looking to move to the Oregon City area and out of Portland right before the job transfer. I do love to be in the sticks but close to a little shopping. We even looked in Colton, OR. near Waskel's wabbit hole. |
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Location: Earth·SolarSystem·LocalInterstellarCloud·Local Bub | I undestand why you ended up in Eugene...
Careful with That Axe.... |
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Location: SoCal | When I moved down in late 1984, had been living in Willamette, south of West Linn/Oregon City.
Could hook up the boat and be on the river in 5 minutes. Yet, no problem getting to my main office in Vancouver (agency manager for Standard of Oregon) or the 4th Landing Support Battalion in Seattle or VMAQ-4 (the electronic warfare squadron with the Seahawks logo on the tail) in Whidby Island.
Absolutely love the Eugene area when I went to school. Absolutely hate Cox Cable's feud with Fox - can't evem order Pac-10 to watch the Ducks.
Actually had planned to buy 12 acres (with a couple of llamas) before I ended up moving to SoCal. Had a barn that would have been a great James Taylor style guitar studio. |
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Location: Eugene, Oregon | I was worried when Duck season hit here. We were lucky to get Dish and the programing is out of the east coast so we are never blocked out. :D
I use to cuss out comcast every b-ball season. My son and I went to a lot of Mariners games and were big fans. It was always black-out season in PDX. So one year, I think I am really smart and saved to buy the season ticket deal and it just so happened that Fox had made some deal and they were showing them all. I got my money back. :rolleyes:
I am hoping to get in some good fishing this summer and swimming. I love the big Sky and all the outdoor stuff. The first year I lived here, I just worked 14 hour days. I am ready to play!
Eugene is cool. It's still a small red-neck town yet everyone is pretty friendly and lots of diversity to keep it interesting but no problems.
Nuthin like where I grew-up in the Rogue Valley. |
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Location: SoCal | gee, I remember as very liberal, especially when you compare with the outlying towns. |
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Location: closely held secret | Originally posted by Pokeypup:
Eugene is cool. It's still a small red-neck town yet everyone is pretty friendly and lots of diversity to keep it interesting but no problems. Pokey, you have an interesting perspective. Eugene is just about the most liberal city in Oregon. |
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Location: Eugene, Oregon | Originally posted by Tony Calman:
gee, I remember as very liberal, especially when you compare with the outlying towns. Yes, I guess Eugene is still considered very, very liberal.
The diff is that your neighbor/s who drive a pick-up with a gun rack and sports 100 NRA stickers, (the majority) wave happily at the dude out wattering his lawn with blue hair. :D
I like that.
In PDX they claim to be tolorant and welcome all, but here, you really have to keep an open mind. I think the size of the city makes it that way. There is no where to hide.
It's a good thing cuz it allows folks to see that others have a lot to offer if you don't pre-judge them by their appearance. |
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Location: Boise, Idaho | My daughter is thinking about moving there. That should tip it even further to the left. |
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Location: Eugene, Oregon | Hey! :D
My hair happens to be a very nice shade of blue. ;) |
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Location: closely held secret | I had you pegged for younger than that... |
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Location: Eugene, Oregon | Originally posted by Waskel:
I had you pegged for younger than that... :cool: The spikes hide the gray. |
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