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i live in Walla Walla now, moved out from Portland a year and a half ago. Just came back to celebrate thanksgiving and take my car in for repairs.
Drove straight shot to my Parents to drop off a bunch of wine and then headed to the car place. I spent almost two hours in traffic driving maybe 20 miles, and only 3.5 all the way from walla walla a couple hundred miles away.
My stress spiked, I was immediately upset and tortured by the driving in PDX.
Made me realize, I'm done with city dwelling forever. I'll visit of course, but I hope I don't ever move back.

Perspective changes. I moved to WW thinking I'd go to school, learn my trade and move back to a "real city". Well, since then I've found a community, people and a town I love. Not to mention I've fallen in love so I have someone to jopegullybrgin my new life with. I want to get a little farm, make and sell wine, and do it in WW. Always be a Blazer fan, but I'm down for a different life than I've had previously in PDX.

These are just some recent thoughts.
 
PDX traffic is terrible. Good job on moving away and finding a career you love. Cherish that! I wish I could get out of here. Telework a couple of days a week but that's about it.

Good on you sir.
 
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Not to mention I've fallen in love so I have someone to jopegullybrgin my new life with.
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I had to google jopegullybrgin to find out what it meant. Sounds great for you!

barfo
 
I moved to Wilsonville over 30 years ago to be closer to my job down the valley. It took me a long time to get over the resentment of "having" to live in (what used to be) Podunkville. To me, Portland was the be all and end all. I went to the dentist this morning on 120th and NE Glisan. My appointment was at 11. It took me most of an hour in bumper to bumper traffic. Going home took me almost an hour and a half. Under previously "normal" traffic conditions, the drive used to take me 20 minutes either way. This kind of driving hassle is now the new normal at any time of the day or night. And to top it off, Portland has turned into a dirty, unkempt city with homeless encampments every few blocks. And the quality of the streets and roads suck big time. I am now so over Portland and I am genuinely grateful we got out when we did. Of course the sprawl and congestion has now reached Wilsonville.....but we can still get out of the mess faster than if we lived in Portland. If we had an actual reason, we'd move down the valley to the general McMinnville area like BG did......The immigrants and hipsters are welcome to have have Portland.......
 
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i live in Walla Walla now, moved out from Portland a year and a half ago. Just came back to celebrate thanksgiving and take my car in for repairs.
Drove straight shot to my Parents to drop off a bunch of wine and then headed to the car place. I spent almost two hours in traffic driving maybe 20 miles, and only 3.5 all the way from walla walla a couple hundred miles away.
My stress spiked, I was immediately upset and tortured by the driving in PDX.
Made me realize, I'm done with city dwelling forever. I'll visit of course, but I hope I don't ever move back.

Perspective changes. I moved to WW thinking I'd go to school, learn my trade and move back to a "real city". Well, since then I've found a community, people and a town I love. Not to mention I've fallen in love so I have someone to jopegullybrgin my new life with. I want to get a little farm, make and sell wine, and do it in WW. Always be a Blazer fan, but I'm down for a different life than I've had previously in PDX.

These are just some recent thoughts.
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Nice to see you share the good thoughts.
 
Country living = a quality life style with peace of mind.
City dwelling = stressful navigating the slow moving human sewer system.

BTW, Walla Walla is a very nice clean small town, with most professional services and major stores you find in big cities, plus, several good restaurants. The only negative I found about WW is the price of gas and diesel is the highest in the Pacific NW, not sure why?
 
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I envy you. I don't really live in a big city, 430k but a large map, but it's large enough. It's only 60 miles from Los Angeles. I wish I could live in the country.
 
Living in the city rocks. We are so much smarter, politically aware and not xenophobic demagogues.
 
In any case, the best plan of action is to get a small abode in a cool neighborhood, be a hipster minimalist and never travel more than 5 miles unless it's by plane
 
I used to love bend. this town has half the population but feels bigger cause it's not surrounded by public land like bend. i wish i could live in a town under 1000 population but with good internet
 
It took me a long time to find my acreage in the woods, out of the city limits, but most importantly...surrounded by good folk who live in the woods for the right reason. I highly recommend it. Good for the soul. Left Wilsonville in 2001 and haven't looked back...although if I were young and single, I'd probably live in the city...my Portland friends mostly bought places in Milwaukee or the city and don't even bother owning cars. Rent them when they need one and are computer geeks by day and bicycle to get around. being single and.finding a mate out here in the sticks would be brutal!
 
riverman said:
It took me a long time to find my acreage in the woods, out of the city limits, but most importantly...surrounded by good folk who live in the woods for the right reason. I highly recommend it. Good for the soul. Left Wilsonville in 2001 and haven't looked back...although if I were young and single, I'd probably live in the city...my Portland friends mostly bought places in Milwaukee or the city and don't even bother owning cars. Rent them when they need one and are computer geeks by day and bicycle to get around. being single and.finding a mate out here in the sticks would be brutal!
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You don't have to be lonely, at farmersonly.com!
 
EL PRESIDENTE said:
never travel more than 5 miles
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When I first moved to my ranch that I had in the 90s, a neighbor told me, he had lived there his whole life and had never even seen the Pacific Ocean.
I was impressed.:blink:
 
riverman said:
It took me a long time to find my acreage in the woods, out of the city limits, but most importantly...surrounded by good folk who live in the woods for the right reason. I highly recommend it. Good for the soul. Left Wilsonville in 2001 and haven't looked back...although if I were young and single, I'd probably live in the city...my Portland friends mostly bought places in Milwaukee or the city and don't even bother owning cars. Rent them when they need one and are computer geeks by day and bicycle to get around. being single and.finding a mate out here in the sticks would be brutal!
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Actually, If I were a young fellow with the benefit of 20/20 hindsight, I would only have a minimum condo in the city where I worked. A home where ever the hell I wanted it, no doubt out in the countryside some where. My wife and I have talked about our days when I worked in Cupertino and the Labs, Santa Teressa and Almaden why didn't we just have an Condo in the Santa Clara valley and a Home in say, Capitola.

Hell, I was on an Airplane half the damn time anyway.
 
MarAzul said:
Actually, If I were a young fellow with the benefit of 20/20 hindsight, I would only have a minimum condo in the city where I worked. A home where ever the hell I wanted it, no doubt out in the countryside some where. My wife and I have talked about our days when I worked in Cupertino and the Labs, Santa Teressa and Almaden why didn't we just have an Condo in the Santa Clara valley and a Home in say, Capitola.

Hell, I was on an Airplane half the damn time anyway.
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I've done that in my single days...lived in a small studio in Taipei for years, walked to work, didn't need a car and traveled a lot more than I do nowadays. When I moved to the east coast of Taiwan after marrying we had a car we wouldn't drive for weeks...motorcycle took me all around the island.
 
I like where I live in Henderson. My last neighborhood felt like it wasn't even in Vegas and our new one is closer, Winco is 5 minutes away and my work is 10 minutes away.

But, we live on top of the mountains to the South and it feels remote even though I can hear a low hum from the freeway down the hill.

Best of both worlds. If you count solid rock as country.
 
riverman said:
I've done that in my single days...lived in a small studio in Taipei for years, walked to work, didn't need a car and traveled a lot more than I do nowadays. When I moved to the east coast of Taiwan after marrying we had a car we wouldn't drive for weeks...motorcycle took me all around the island.
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Yeah, after we came back from a sailing cruise, we bought another home in the valley after I road a 750 to work each day for about 4 months. From our boat to the Lab. Still had not figured it out
and bought another house in the wrong place.
 
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