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I think the tropical paradise of Hawaii and the bayous of Louisiana have a more magical feel though the Northwest is pretty (when its not raining). Now Alaska does have a magical feel too if y'all consider that part of the Northwest.
Yes, on the coast just on the California side of the California/Oregon border. Feels plenty Pac NW to me.
I was living there a little more than a year ago - in Crescent City, CA, and it is definitely the PNW. Check the weather there right now - cloudy, windy, cool. Also gets lots of rain throughout the year. The giant redwoods are definitely magical. Awe-inspiring. It felt like a kind of church to me. I'd take my dog and we had our secret spot. Everyone should experience it. To feel so small. You just can't imagine the size of the trees, you have to see them in person to experience it. Definitely magical.
It depends upon what you consider magic. Earth magic is very strong outside the big cities.
Elves and fairies are British Isles, except that Portland does have a fellow dressed as a wizard who rides a unicycle and plays the bagpipes.
No one in the PNW considers San Francisco to be PNW. No one in Oregon or Washington considers Northern California to be PNW. People who live in Northern California sometimes insist that they are also PNW.
It depends upon what you consider magic. Earth magic is very strong outside the big cities.
Elves and fairies are British Isles, except that Portland does have a fellow dressed as a wizard who rides a unicycle and plays the bagpipes.
No one in the PNW considers San Francisco to be PNW. No one in Oregon or Washington considers Northern California to be PNW. People who live in Northern California sometimes insist that they are also PNW.
Insisting that a town that is only 30 minutes from the Oregon border is not in the PNW, but every single part of Oregon is...is....silly.
Call it what you will. A border between states doesn't change the weather from one side to the other. Or the industries from logging/crabbing/Forest Service employees to Facebook/Yahoo/Google employees.
All you need to do is look at the data. Weather, types of employment, attitudes regarding guns, etc. It's a region without definite lines or borders. To say any of that stops exactly at a state line is simply silly or very naive or ignorant.
No one in the PNW considers San Francisco to be PNW. No one in Oregon or Washington considers Northern California to be PNW. People who live in Northern California sometimes insist that they are also PNW.
This hearkens the the grand old American tradition of gatekeeping.
Although I myself don't consider SF to be the PNW, in terms of a lot of charactersitics, I think northern Northern California fits in with the somewhat nebulous definition of 'PNW'.
Yeah but like most bigfoot sightings are there.
Seems to be a lot of Live Action Role Playing (LARP)
Also probably the highest concentration of hippies (maybe Austin is up there).
I don't mean that it is pretty...it just seems to have a mystical feel. Like the forests could have elves and fairies and stuff.
You just don't feel that in the LA of San Diego forests
You do in NorCal redwood forests, though.
There are places kinda like that in the PacNW: mostly in cedar forests. IMO the cities tend to be very drab-looking, though. You might prefer some of the small towns.
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