I talk to Portland residents all the time who have never been to Mount Hood, The Gorge or The Coast!!! (moving to, parking)

[for1500]

Originally Posted by davemess10

So what is your ideal location? We've heard a lot of problems, what are the solutions for you?
Where should we all move?

Do not follow me!

Now when I meet someone new I immediately discard natives. I no longer wish to waste my time except for the occasional venting.

I love cautionary tales.

[Minervah]

Originally Posted by for1500

You keep missing the point.

This is not Portland nonsensical PR but the absolute truth.

No, you keep missing the point. You have an opinion and you are entitled to it. But it is an opinion not a proven fact. You have not proven a thing. The absolute truth according to you.

You're no fun anymore. I think I am through talking to this wall.

[for1500]

Originally Posted by Minervah

No, you keep missing the point. You have an opinion and you are entitled to it. But it is an opinion not a proven fact. You have not proven a thing. The absolute truth according to you.

You're no fun anymore. I think I am through talking to this wall.

When were you fun?

Your comments are so very typical. I could write them for you.

[davemess10]

Originally Posted by for1500

Do not follow me!

Now when I meet someone new I immediately discard natives. I no longer wish to waste my time except for the occasional venting.

I love cautionary tales.

Ha! Ha! Ha! Seriously, THAT's your response? Add something positive to the discussion, man. I hardly think you need worry about anyone on here following you to your promised land (as you can tell the vast majority do not agree with you).

You strike me as a Dallas kind of guy, or maybe Phoenix. What do you think?

[EnricoV]

Originally Posted by davemess10

Ha! Ha! Ha! Seriously, THAT's your response? Add something positive to the discussion, man. I hardly think you need worry about anyone on here following you to your promised land (as you can tell the vast majority do not agree with you).

You strike me as a Dallas kind of guy, or maybe Phoenix. What do you think?

I'm thinking Toad Suck.

[Deezus]

Originally Posted by for1500

When were you fun?

Your comments are so very typical. I could write them for you.

Not a member

That took long...

[Minervah]

Yanno, looking at the title of this thread " I talk to Portland residents all the time who have never been to Mount Hood, The Gorge or The Coast!!! " I am wondering why it is so important to to some as to what others do.

I mean, I could care less where other people go. Stay home, go out; so what? Some people have nothing better to do than to poke their noses in other people's lives.

[Larry Caldwell]

Minervah, it's more the stark picture that it paints. I don't live in Portland, but struck up a conversation with a young woman in North Portland once. She had never been to the coast, or Multnomah Falls, or Mt. Hood. I had been all those places by the time I was 5 years old. My earliest memories are of Mom packing a picnic basket, the family piling into the car, and going somewhere several times a summer. We would ask, "Where are we going?" As often as not, my dad would say, "Just follow the radiator ornament."

You can get a lot of places in a day. Sometimes we even went to Portland. One of the memorable experiences of my childhood was sitting in a Jag XK-E when I was 11 years old. It was love at first sit. I also spent time at Battery Russell, Fort Clatsop, Depoe Bay, Sea Lion Caves, Oregon Caves, Lava Caves, Crater Lake, Timberline Lodge, Multnomah Falls, Silver Creek Falls, and a host of other small parks and sights all over Western Oregon. The thought that someone could grow up in Oregon and see none of those things is sad. It makes me a little sick to think of it.

[EnricoV]

What's sadder still is to imagine all the reasons that a person may have grown up without visiting all those places. Whether it was a matter of no money, no time, no means, or no caring. Whatever ... it is sad.

I too enjoyed all those things in my childhood. And it (or something) fostered an interest in me an interest in traveling far and wide, for the experience. My father, who took us to all those places, has no such interest. I have other relatives who are interested in traveling far and wide ... to be able to say they've done it. And some are happy to stay home.

The world is filled with lots of people, with lots of interests. I don't expect them all to share mine.

[Minervah]

Originally Posted by EnricoV

What's sadder still is to imagine all the reasons that a person may have grown up without visiting all those places. Whether it was a matter of no money, no time, no means, or no caring. Whatever ... it is sad.

I too enjoyed all those things in my childhood. And it (or something) fostered an interest in me an interest in traveling far and wide, for the experience. My father, who took us to all those places, has no such interest. I have other relatives who are interested in traveling far and wide ... to be able to say they've done it. And some are happy to stay home.

The world is filled with lots of people, with lots of interests. I don't expect them all to share mine.

That is true and it's a very personal thing. Not everyone can afford to visit places in their state. When I was a kid growing up in Chicago, my family stuck pretty close to home for whatever entertainment we could afford which was mostly events that were free in the city. There was very little money for travel or entertainment.

That certainly put some limitations on us. But we didn't feel we were deprived of anything. And it certainly was nobody's business as to why we did not travel much outside our neighborhood.

People have their reasons for doing what they do or do not do. I think judging people because they choose not to see the sights in their state is just silly.