Mispronouncing Oregon
May 20th, 2005 | 10:58 AM
#143
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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.
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.
May 20th, 2005 | 11:20 AM
#144
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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!!
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!!
May 20th, 2005 | 01:17 PM
#150
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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)
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)
May 23rd, 2005 | 10:01 AM
#152
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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!
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!
May 23rd, 2005 | 11:05 AM
#156
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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...
May 23rd, 2005 | 11:09 AM
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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 "Take Ventura Freeway." You would say "Take the Ventura Freeway." Then it just gets extended to the numbered roads: "Take the 405." What do you think?
