OT Portland Vacation

[MickZagger]

Stop this nonsense. The biggest reason people travel to Portland is to work, not to shop. The holiday seasons being the exception to that. The majority of the traffic is Portland/Oregon residents. It's not rocket-science, it's just the way it is: the Portland area has a MUCH higher population number than Vancouver (Portland/Tigard/Hillsboro/etc combined is about 1 million people vs. about 170,000 Vancouver residents).

It just sounded to me like you wanted a "one-up" argument to bitch about Vancouver. All I said was that Portland is a dump, and many Liberals on here agree with that.



Utter horseshit. I never hear on the news of Vancouver residents causing problems in Portland.

Oh, I'm sure there's one or two occasionally that do, of course, but it's hardly "proportional". So again....stop this nonsense.

You obviously don't travel to Portland often. The worst traffic mess in the city of Portland is I-5 north heading into Vancouver. Don't blame Portlander's for having all the good jobs.

 

[MickZagger]

Vancouver is going to overflow in the next 20 years, its going to be the 2nd biggest city in Washington before you know it. Good thing they have tons of space to keep building. The overflow of Californian's and people moving to the Portland area and there's not enough living spaces to hold them. They're moving to Vancouver. You're already seeing it out in places like Ridgefield. That place is subdivision central.

 

[MickZagger]

It's all shit. Back when PDX still had notable rush hours, Vantucky traffic was shit traffic. How long have you been back from the Bay Area? I mean, you're always talking about that like you lived there just yesterday.

He's never lived in the Bay Area. The strip malls of Vancouver are all he knows, thats why he's such a gung ho Vancouver supporter. I can't find any other reason. I was raised pretty much most of my childhood in Vancouver. Most my friends moved away for college and never came back. Most people who were born and raised there don't share the same sentiment.

I'm contemplating moving back to Vancouver just because its more practical in terms of pricing for a house which I'm looking to buy. The public school system is better. But the neighborhoods have no character. It still has a small town feel when you go to a small event like the Sausage Festival (aka high school reunion). I much prefer Portland.