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Originally Posted by Sage of Sagle
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Ummm....he didn't say "Boise is better than Portland"...I thought we were all just discussing the rates in the area. However, if a person lives in Portland and is thinking of relocating to Boise, THEN IT IS PERTINENT DATA to that person (either positive or negative). So let's keep that in mind folks...
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He didn’t say that explicitly, but at the same time, this thread had nothing to do with the unemployment rates of anywhere else but Boise, Idaho. No other comments, no other comparisons. It would be assumed that someone looking from elsewhere would be aware of their respective unemployment rate.
If we wanted to follow this logic, should we not include an unemployment figure for EVERY place that a person may be potentially relocating from? Why just Portland, Spokane, and Washington state?
Also, the poster referenced Portland in what seems to be an obvious comparison: “check out Portland…” and then noted the higher unemployment rates. As if the compare those with Boise's.
And when another poster cited Salt Lake City's (another “northwest city”) much lower rate, the poster responded rather harshly saying “why don’t you move there then” and then tried to build a case as to why SLC’s economy is going to somehow fall down the tubes overnight.
While “we are better than X” wasn’t explicitly articulated, I certainly read into that way, as did at least two other posters. Otherwise, why the need to inject selective comparison in disregard to the simple message of the OP?
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Originally Posted by Syringaloid
boi2socal, you read way too much into certain posts.
Washington unemployment rates were brought up previously by the moderator so I thought I would include other Northwest cities and Oregon in the stats...I don't think anyone was making this a we are better than you thread until you made your statement.
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