Comments | rabid_pickle: Looking for info

rabid_pickle

Looking for info

Mar 23, 2006 15:00

Hey beansbouf, I know you gave me the info on various areas of Portland before but I can't seem to locate it. Could you be ever so sweet, and give me the rundown again? Or noss, manicgiraffe, or anybody else out there in lj land that knows the area - any information I can get now would be greatly appreciated. With only a little over two months left until the move, I ( Read more... )

moving, portland

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angille March 23 2006, 23:32:47 UTC

Perhaps... post to damnportlanders as well?
Adan eden!

rabid_pickle March 23 2006, 23:36:34 UTC

Somehow I just don't feel comfortable with that group. Maybe once we live up there? But for now I just feel like I'll get a bunch of "stay in California" comments.

You could always post there.

beansbouf March 24 2006, 00:11:23 UTC

hey there, could you email me your cell #? i will give you a call if that's okay.

rabid_pickle March 24 2006, 16:01:42 UTC

I'll drop you an email later today :)

Quick Overview noss March 24 2006, 04:30:01 UTC

Portland Proper:

SE: Very Santa Cruz. Lots of vegans and food co-ops, hippie dyke dreadlocked types. Very pretty, laid-back, and cool, with neat shops and excellent restaurants.

NE: Has been described as "like SE, but less white". There is supposedly the most crime here, hence the cheaper digs, but it is also the most multicultural/multiethnic and probably most interesting part of the city. It also has some very posh areas like the Laurelhurst and Irvington districts and the Broadway/shopping district. Plus one of my super-cool coworkers lives there, as does my phenomenally awesome friend drjeff, and I trust their taste ( ... )

Re: Quick Overview rabid_pickle March 24 2006, 16:04:38 UTC

Thanx chicka! I've been panhandled for my whole life - it's like just part of the experience of going out and what not.

I know when we go to buy a house, I want to live on the outskirts so we can have property. As far as the apartment thing goes, this is going to help oodly loodles.

Re: Quick Overview vireo March 24 2006, 20:25:06 UTC

Ooooo, nice description! It's a good rundown.

We may be doing a bit of rental apartment hunting while we're there, too, depending on how haunteddiner's interview goes. Eee!

Re: Quick Overview rabid_pickle March 24 2006, 20:38:54 UTC

Squee! When is the interview? I really hope you guys end up there too. That would be so cool. We'd have like a mini SC up there.

Do you have an interview as well? My brain is fuddled right now and I can't remember if you just gave the publishing company a call or if you're interviewing. Oh wait. She is out of town until the 5th of April right? Anyway that you and Matt could get interviews near the same date for one trip?

Are you going to be driving or flying?

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