scarlett- if we have enough drinks we might even invent a few new ones !

:D ((D))

Sorry I missed this. Yes Scarlett, you will be a Portlander. The vocabulary test is a good idea, sunbum. We just need to be sure we can pass it!

Read on FFR&R that you've got an offer on the house. As you called it a "mini rave" I assume it's not one you particularly like. Good luck! Things are getting pretty crazy around here. You're looking in a different market than my neighborhood, but friends on our block had a full price offer within an hour of putting their house on the market.

The offer was good just that they wanted conditions because they have not sold their house..forget that!
We spent much of yesterday evening online househunting..some lovely Portlanders are helping me by looking at the houses we choose for a closer look, then they tell me just how far away or if it is a neighborhood we would want.
Would you want to live "in" Forest Park?
so far Raleigh Hills and near NW 23rd are our faves, I am still going to look into lofts/apts in the Pearl area.or downtown..
Someone buy my house!!:d

I've always pronounced it OR RE GUN....lol

I stand corrected....now if I can encourage some of my fellow Georgians to stop calling the city of Marietta, MAY 'RET AH!

In Forest Park? Probably not. Near it? Absolutely. It's just up the hill from NW 23rd, and feels more a part of the city than anywhere in Raleigh Hills.

Scarlett,
If you're a left hander would you become a Pretty, Petite, Perky Portsider Portlander who Posts Positively Perfect Pics Posing in Paris?
:-?

Oooops....BRB...gotta go get the Windex to clean off my screen after "Proofing the Post". 8-}

Pppppffffttt!
Poifectly posed photos in Paris? Perky? Perhaps:D

No Scarlett, you don't wear a lot of black. You do wear a lot of Columbia Sportwsear. (And you will see many men wearing sweats bought on the cheap in bulk at Costco). A real Portlander doesn't carry an umbrella. A real Portlander also knows that the stretch of I-84 between downtown Portland and I-205 is called "the Banfield" (sp?). It's listed om many maps as I-84 but everyone calls it the Banfield. Until we learned that, traffic reports drove us nuts.
Also, a true Pacific NWester can point out the correct location of at least 3 volcanoes, even when none are visible.
A while back there was a long quiz on how to tell if you were a "real" denizen of the Pacific NW. It should still be floating around the web somewhere.
Good luck with house hunting in Portland--some of those neigbhorhoods can be surprisingly "spendy." (gack)

Hey!!!

You know you're a REAL Portlander when:

1: The people in the Pendelton store know you by your first name.


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Oh, here's another way to fit in - at least, this is true in WA, and I think it's true in OR, if I remember right; someone from OR, correct me if I'm wrong:

TO STAND OUT AS A TRANSPLANT: Refer to the highways as "The 5" or "The 405." For example "Take the 5 north to Everett."

TO FIT IN: Refer to the highways as "I-5" and "405" For example, "Take I-5 north to Lynnwood. Then go south on 405." (There would, by the way, likely be a better route if this were your plan, but this is purely for academic demonstrative purposes.) :)

Whenever I see TV shows that supposedly take place in the Northwest, but the writers have the characters talk about "Taking the 5," I know they haven't done their homework! That may be the way them Californiuns talk, but not us folk up here!

Here in northern California, we say "I-5" also. "The 5" sounds really strange to me.

suspire, I have never heard anyone in California say "I am taking THE I-80". But maybe Arnold does, LOL. Of course he can't even pronounce California so who knows what he says.

My daughter lives in Carlsbad Ca and they definately say "The 5" down there-

Funny I was just getting reamed about that by locals in both Portland and Minnesota. In San Diego, we always say "the 5" the "163". Never realized it was different in other places and also never noticed I was the only one doing it when I was out of town...

Maybe it's a southern California usage, and occurs because so many of the freeways have names as well as numbers. So it would be odd to say &quot;Take Ventura Freeway.&quot; You would say &quot;Take <i>the</i> Ventura Freeway.&quot; Then it just gets extended to the numbered roads: &quot;Take the 405.&quot; What do you think?

This is getting too complicated for me :(
When we arrive, I will just start speaking French.


<font color="blue"> We got our Trip Ticket today! I am going to see much more of the US from car than I ever planned to see :D</font>

Hey folks- we are giving Scarlett &quot;Oregon anxiety&quot;

She'll probably be &quot;talking in tongues&quot; by the time she gets here after that long trip in the car

I was thinking the same thing, sunbum. And wondering how Scarlett is going to pronounce Oregon in french.