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Old 04-25-2013, 06:57 PM   #21
IHeartE30s
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Originally Posted by Nimbus09 View Post
I moved here 2 years ago from Chicago. Here are my honest opinions/observations. Most of these will be pretty negative unfortunately.

1.) Lived in the Pearl my first year and it was ok, but there are so many homeless people. Sucks. After I got my fill of downtown, I moved just slightly outside of town in Sylvan Highlands. More space, little cheaper on rent and I have a backyard!

2.) Scenery out here is awesome. The drives are better than anywhere I've been. Try Skyline as soon as you can. Also, autocross at PIR always has a good turnout.

3.) Subaru's are everywhere. This actually sucks. Nobody needs one here, even if you do go to Mt. Hood every weekend. I bought mine in Chicago... you know, where it actually snows.

4.) Beer, beer, and more beer... yes!! But if you drink anything other than an IPA, you'll get mocked. It's ok though, I got used to them and they're pretty tasty.

5.) People here plain suck because A) they're either super hipster and think they're smarter than you even though they didn't even finish high school and B) very impersonal, hard to make good friends. Luckily, I work with a lot of people I went to grad school with so I still have genuine people around me.

6.) If you like soccer, you can find a pickup game about anytime, but everyone here is crazy about the ****ty Timbers in the ****ty league they call MLS. Delusional.

7.) Food, oh my gosh, the food is sooo good!

Anyway, welcome! Still think it's an improvement over San Fran.
1) No plan to live in downtown Portland, the homeless people are big in any large city. San Jose and San Fran are pretty bad.
2) Heard there are monthly meets at PIR, will be going there and to do some racing.
3) You dont need rugged terrain to own a Subaru, theres no reason to own one in the bay area yet there are a lot. They're just fun reliable cars
4) Love beer, love IPA. I homebrew and have been to Stone brewfest among many other drinking events...all of which I dont remember.
5) I was thinking that about the people but Im sure it'll be easy to meet friends at work or threw common interest, like cars.
6) Now this is the biggest set back, we LOVE our San Jose Sharks and there is no hockey near! Vancouver Canucks is 5 hours away, we're praying the Pheonix Cayote's relocated to Seattle. We're also big 9er's fans. Soccer, too many fake fouls and too boring watch, fun to play though!
7) We love our food One of the formans there called it "Porkland" cause others obviously love there food too haha

Thanks for the insight!

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Originally Posted by gmhl10 View Post
Oh, cool! I was a tech at BMW too. Now, I'm giving sales a try at Ron Tonkin Acura. So... we're almost neighbors! I could technically walk to your dealer. haha. Ron Tonkin is one of the best places I've ever worked at. They treat their employees well. Too bad there's isn't a RT Subaru dealer. haha.

I love the weather here in Portland. Funny... that coming from a person that's lived in Hawaii for 20+ years. Haha. I just don't seem to like temps over 70 degrees. I don't do well in heat. That, and I've lived in Seattle for about 6 years before too, so I love the PNW. You're gonna like it here too.
Oh sweet! Yeah I saw the row of dealers when I was up there, you guys are just a hop skip and jump away from the BMW dealer. BMW's are so easy to work on, people think they arent...but thats good cause then they bring them to me.

I think if a Hawaii native can live there, we should be fine.
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