The Pacific NW has it's own flavor and lifestyle found nowhere else in North America. I've been all over the US and I would always come back to live around here. Seattle, Portland, Vancouver BC, and San Francisco (I know that's stretching it a bit for Pacific NW) all seem like variations on a theme and all have great things about them.[/DIV]Without starting a geographic flame war, which city is your favorite and why? If price was no object where would you most want to live? What spots should west coast travellers check out in your city?If I had my druthers I'd be living in a spiffed out flat right in downtown Vancouver. Although Portland is a great (and still affordable) for a lot of the same reasons I like Vancouver-lots of natural beauty and close proximity to nature, progressive, laid back.
I like Seattle quite a bit (it's where I live).
Portland semed a bit prudish to me. San Francisco is a cool place, but too expensive for me. I like Vancouver but haven't had the opportunity to spend as much time there as I'd like.
If price were no object, I'd live in Carmel, Monterey or Cannon Beach.[/DIV]So beautiful.
I like Monterey except that it's dripping with rich people. But it's very beautiful and Laguna Seca is there.
I like Monterey, except it is dripping with tenkani's!!
Well, money would have to definitely be no object....a round of golf is about $475.00 CD.[/DIV]...and real estate prices are off the charts.
AND, dripping tenkanis only adds to it's appeal.[/DIV]Good morning tenkani.[img onmouseover="this.style.backgroundColor='#C6D3EF';this.style.border='1px solid #3169C6'; " style="BORDER-RIGHT: #3169c6 1px solid; BORDER-TOP: #3169c6 1px solid; BORDER-LEFT: #3169c6 1px solid; CURSOR: pointer; BORDER-BOTTOM: #3169c6 1px solid; BACKGROUND-COLOR: #c6d3ef" onclick="InsertImage('/forums/richedit/smileys/Teasing/5.gif');" onmouseout="this.style.backgroundColor=''; this.style.border=''" src="vny!://discoverseattle.net/forums/richedit/smileys/Teasing/5.gif" align=absMiddle]
hmmmmmmm.... tenkanis......... glgglglgg.......
money no object?[/DIV]Well thats easy than it would either be San Fransico or Vancouver.I'd pick Vancouver because I'm in love with the place.
I've been down the coast, and there were interesting things everywhere. My choice still remains the Vancouver area........I consider it one of the most beautiful and clean (comparatively speaking) areas I have ever seen. I've never regretted moving here. It felt like home when I first arrived. (//vny!://discoverseattle.net/forums/richedit/smileys/Happy/10.gif)
where are you orginally from kitten?
Future Canadian- let's get together and smoke a doobie. :) Are you in or around Seattle?
Quote from: Sportsdude on Feb 08 06 12:32where are you orginally from kitten?[/DIV]
I'm originally from Saint John, New Brunswick. I moved here to get away from the long winters, and I'm so glad I did.
I guess you didn't like the meter plus snow falls each year.[/DIV]Speaking of Snow it finally snowed down here for the frst time all year. But it wasn't anything special a couple cm's worth didn't even stick to the road. damn global warming and urban sprawl.
I don't like the idea of global warming. Personal warming is a different story!
look what I found searching st. john new brunswick
(//vny!://www.sjba.ca/images/mother_child.jpg) ROTFL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Not ME!!!!
Quote from: Dood on Feb 08 06 12:33Future Canadian- let's get together and smoke a doobie. :) Are you in or around Seattle?
Ahh... Another great thing about this neck of the woods. I'm in Portland, but should I come to Seattle or vice versa indeed we shall.[/DIV]I need to make it to the next Bumbershoot (best music/arts fest ever IMHO), I've missed far too many of them.
Ah! I missed this thread![/DIV]Yeah, Monterey is very pretty. Get rid of the inhabitants and it would be a paradise.[/DIV]I love San Francisco, but it's sort of like going to a rave; very exciting and gritty, but after about 8 hours you start to get a headache and feel like you need to go home and take a shower. Haven't had the pleasure of visiting Seattle, Portland or Vancouver yet but I'm looking forward to it!!
Yeah I would love to live right in the Haight for about a year and then split. SF is ALOT of city. But fun as all get out.[/DIV]And oh how I miss Cafe Treiste and the Molinari Deli. A must stop every time I'm there.
I was visiting a friend who was in the hospital in S.F. for three days and was carless. I rode around in the muni busses a lot. You can't get much more gritty than that. If you want a good long look at the grim, haggard faces of the downtrodden muni is definitely the way to go.
A homeless lady berated me about my choice of footwear. She seemed genuinely upset that I had left my snow boots at home...
I'd like to get out of Vancouver to escape the dampness and wetness. It' s like soaking and marinating in rain and fogs for the last 3 to 4 months. Can I just move to and settle down at Seattle or San Francisco with a Canadian passport?
If you want to escape dampness, I'm not sure that Seattle or S.F. are your best choices LOL. You'd probably like San Diego. Weather-wise at least...
I am sooooo tired of the rain right now. It just seems endless this year and we're only in Febuary.
I'm tired of nothing happening in saint louis. This place is a borefest. zzzz.. The weather gets nice then it gets cold the next day. It snowed about a 3 cm today and by dinner it was gone. The place is ugville. My friend and I just drive up and down the street for about 3hrs everyweekend doing nothing. WHY? Because there is nothing to do in this place.
My condolences. I've been through St. Louis and it didn't look fun at all. Just lots of WalMart-ville.
lots of Walmarts, mcdonalds, and walgreens.[/DIV]There are 3 Walmarts nearby[/DIV]20 Mcdonalds 15 Walgreens-one on every corner
That does sound really boring. Might be a great place to retire to, if you're really tired of living. [img onmouseover="this.style.backgroundColor='#C6D3EF';this.style.border='1px solid #3169C6'; " style="BORDER-RIGHT: #3169c6 1px solid; BORDER-TOP: #3169c6 1px solid; BORDER-LEFT: #3169c6 1px solid; CURSOR: pointer; BORDER-BOTTOM: #3169c6 1px solid; BACKGROUND-COLOR: #c6d3ef" onclick="InsertImage('/forums/richedit/smileys/Sad/1.gif');" onmouseout="this.style.backgroundColor=''; this.style.border=''" src="vny!://discoverseattle.net/forums/richedit/smileys/Sad/1.gif" align=absMiddle]
lmao![/DIV]Yeah its borefest.[/DIV]I keep on asking myself why do people live here?[/DIV]Heck, before I was born my parents used to live in Milwaukee and heck that place is cooler than saint louis. At least Milwaukee had lake michigan and Chicago only an hour away.Here you got farmland to your right, left and straight ahead. They only beatiful part of Missouri is its southern part but thats where people start coming out of the woods (if you know what I mean).I look at vancouver and I'm a struck. I find those websites where people have taken highway pictures on certain routes (like sea to sky) and its just beautiful. You don't get that here. I need out. I need to finish a couple classes that I have been mullling over a year and a half and I need to get finished. I need to start my life. Get out of this hole.
Yes do it! I meet a lot of folks out here from the midwest.[/DIV]By the way I liked Milwakee when I was there. I was expecting another boring midwest town but was pleasantly surprised. I really wish I could go back to the Safe House. It was this spy-themed bar with all sorts of cool stuff to look at on the walls (much of it hidden or not obvious) and all over. They didn't publish their address, so you had to go out and find it yourself which was a lot of fun.
Just keep in mind that anything you want badly enough is worth the work it takes to get there. Keep working on your studies. The sooner you finish, the sooner you get out of there. You will need more than high school to find better than a McJob. Didn't you say that you wanted to go to Simon Fraser U? That place has the most incredible view you could imagine! Sometimes I drive up there and play "tourist", staring around as though I'd never seen the place. You would love it.
thanks kit. It wasn't Simon Fraser but this place in Tacoma I can get into in a second all I got to do is to finish this little course work. See my father is prominent lutheran musican, I'm a rower, have vast knowledge of history and politics and I'm 6'8 and a rower. They'd take me in a second. I'm the problem and I have to fight it.
Tacoma is nice except for the dreaded Tacoma Aroma. I think it's a paper mill or something, we always have to roll up our windows driving through there.
thanks for the warning.
Yup, it's still Vancouver for me. suprise suprise.
uhmm,that's hard to decide.
not seattle cause it's too similar to vancouver (geography/weather) so i would stay in vancouver.
1) vancouver
2) san fran
3) seattle
4) portland
5) los angles
6) san diego
7) tacoma
100) spokane
soapbox wrote:
100) spokane
LOL! I grew up there! Nice in spots but pretty boring to grow up in.
kitten wrote:
I don't like the idea of global warming. Personal warming is a different story![/DIV]
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You surprise me Kitten, as it's to you to whom we all turn when we're in need of personal warmth.