http://www.wweek.com/portland/blog-..._quit_his_job_because_portland_is_boring.html Portland is great, if you're not single with a ton of money. :MARIS61:
Opinions vary: [video=youtube;AUL7yvy6pB8]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AUL7yvy6pB8[/video] Is England the most culturally boring country in modern times? No matter how hard I try, I just can't bring myself to be interested in Brittish culture at all. It all just seems so bland. The monarchy is so incredibly dull. What? You have a boring queen and king and princes and dutchesses that get dressed in fancy garb and wave to people? Snooze. There's no attractive women in England (except for Kate Middleton), and she's 100% owned. The food is crap. What? Tea and crumpets, fish and chips? Pigeon pie? Get that sh!t outta here. Where's the excitement? Can I get a motherfuggin cinnamon roll or a juicy buffalo burger?!? The whole culture just 'screams' lame. Everyone's fancy, refined, formal, and dull. I'm sure it's great... for boring people. Yeah, America may be the wild, wild west with guns a blazing and such, but at least we're interesting. To close, I'd like to quote the great Winston Churchill: "I love England, but it's boring as hell here." Thank you. http://www.letsrun.com/forum/flat_read.php?thread=5032551 British people among world's ugliest, according to BeautifulPeople.com Britons are among the ugliest people in the world, according to a website that only allows 'beautiful' people to join. Fewer than one in eight British men (12 per cent) and just three in 20 women (15 per cent) who have applied to BeautifulPeople.com have been accepted as members. Existing members of the website rate how attractive potential members are over a 48 hour provisional period, when applicants upload a recent photograph and a short personal profile. They are rated by members of the opposite sex, who have four options to describe how attractive they think the hopeful is - 'Yes definitely', 'Hmmm yes, OK', 'Hmmm no, not really' and 'NO definitely NOT'. Swedish men have proved the most successful applicants, with two-thirds (65 per cent) of those putting themselves forward being accepted. Norwegian women are considered the most beautiful with more than three-quarters (76 per cent) making the grade. http://www.telegraph.co.uk/women/se...ugliest-according-to-BeautifulPeople.com.html
I once stopped in Boring, OR for lunch when running away from home at 11 years old with a friend on our bikes. (Started in Lake Oswego) That's about all I remember of the town.
Wait... He couldn't make his C-level income and job responsibilities work for a year before pulling the ripcord because he was bored and horny? Either this guy was the shallowest man this side of Hedo's wife, or there's something else going on...
what is there to spend your money on in Portland if your single? Dating pool is small as is the nightlife
He probably missed the stench of diesel fumes and the old train tracks that are all over London. (I lived in London for a while in the late 80s). FWIW - When I lived in the UK - I had a real hard time finding friends there as well and enjoying the social scene (no issues several years later when I moved to NYC). I believe that it takes a bit more than 1 year to really be comfortable in a new, culturally different place. I suspect that he either did not have the patience to make a real go at it or there were other, undisclosed reasons.
Well, Portland isn't a worldclass city with world class facilities for the jet setter. Its a small hipsterville city with a local chill vibe. You have to like the outdoors, you have to like divey spots and weird people. When your rich, young and want to party that's what you seek. For someone like that, going to live in a nice house in the suburbs is like living in Prison. No EDM clubs, no bottle service, no trendy restaurants where you can have group dinners and shit like that. There's no way in hell I could live in Portland unless I was married and settled down. There really is no real appeal there if you're single.
I'm shocked at El Prez. Not. You're 40-something but act like you're 18/19. You're not too far from AARP status! I'm not here to rag on you as everyone has different tastes but talking about "settling down" at your age is odd and a bit sad. I hope when I'm your age I don't care about clubbing If I am, someone take me out to the pasture and shoot me.
I live in LA. That's just how it is here and most big cities with options. Men are an appreciating asset and age is not really a limiting factor. I date girls in their 20s (and 30s and 40s), big deal. Settling down, living in the burbs and having kids has no appeal to me. Maybe it's "sad", but so are a lot of things like getting ass raped in divorce and having your manhood essentially stripped as I see so often with those who do go down "the right path". I'm not a club goer other than the occasional Vegas weekend and even that has been curtailed the past few years, just stating where this bro is coming from. For someone looking to have fun, fuck around, get drunk, not bump into the same groups of people everywhere you go....Portland isn't that great.
