Yeah that’s what I was hoping for due tot he tank. Just outside Moda on Sunday? Wasn’t sure if that’s be a possibility. Online at the usual terrible sites still pretty pricey.
you'll probably be able to get a really cheap ticket on seatgeek or whatever and just sit wherever you want. maybe scour (or post on) the blazers' subreddit or boards and see if you can grab some tickets from someone. i've seen people give them away recently.
I got apizza scholls once. It was good but not like tourist stop good iyam. Honestly I liked that dirtyass bar across the street more. Space Room or something. It was dark and filthy, even by Portland dive bar standards, so I loved it Then we went into quarterworld and played battletoads.
Feel like such a piece of shit gentrifier, but we're less than a mile walking distance from Multnomah Village after we move. Struggling to wrap my brain around everything. It's a long story why were moving, personal and some political stuff in the South. My wife's late mother lived with us for a bit during COVID before the vaccinations were available, she moved from Fresno, CA where my wife grew up. Basically my wife pushed for years for her mom to move near us, when we lived in Texas prior to our daughter being born, and then in the Atlanta area after she was. My wife's mother likely got lewy body dementia and my wife forced her to move in with us after she started wandering outside living in a facility not able to handle her issues in Fresno. She passed away last year and my wife had to fight with her awful brother that suddenly started questioning her motives after she moved. This is also after she pressed her brother and her mother's friends in Fresno prior to her mental state really deteriorating and everyone, including her brother, seemed to be in denial and didn't voice much concern. The last couple of years have been very shitty and we're trying to start a new chapter in our lives. My family isn't excited but my parents, prior to my mom getting in really a shitty physical condition, didn't do nearly as much to help out raising our daughter.
I don’t think I need to give you a history lesson on your own state. Not sure how you state this in good faith. Like, congrats on my guy for his impending move, but
I literally walked miles around this area over the course of ~2 years. It wasn't glamorous but it paid the bills I'm also not trying to do this thing
That’s a fair addendum, as I’m not even sure that you know what you’re trying to argue at this point.
Fwiw this neighborhood is fairly white and I'm not using the phrase gentrifying correctly. It's more like I'm contributing to a possible housing shortage by us purchasing a house in an area that keeps rising in value because of a mostly artificial shortage in available places for people to live. That's also a problem in any major city in this country if you are living in a less than dense neighborhood close to the city center.
Don’t mind me. The PNW is a beautiful place. I’m just a Washingtonian that will shit talk Oregon when afforded the opportunity. I’m just laughing at butthead saying you’re not gentrifying, you’re making it better.
That housing shortage was put in motion many years ago by people who are probably dead. There is a reason that MAX doesnt run through the neighborhoods out there.
And fwiw that's not any shot against you Pile Driving Miss Daisy That shit with MAX was decided like 20 years ago
I’m also extremely sorry for glossing over all of this. None of my bullshit banter has anything to do with what you have and have had going on. My apologies for trolling over the top of of this.
People like him are making that neighborhood better. The Karens are still there but they are old and we can only hope someone coughs on them
i think you should consider "touching grass" as the kids say if you're going to be apoplectic about buying a home for your family. and that's true anywhere, not just sw portland.
Shoulda bought in Clark County. burnttatertot and I get lonely up here. But I wouldn’t stand up Celemo for a beer sometime.
Honestly if you have a young family, the Multnomah Village area seems like an awesome place. Burlingame is similar but there isn't really anything on that side of I-5
And whenever you end up at Don Pedro in the morning The order for me was always: breakfast burrito, 3 meat, light egg
Lived for 10 years within 2-3 miles of Multnomah village (mostly south of downtown Beaverton, but still relatively close in the proximity of the entire metro). basically as others said. I miss the shit out of it everyday. Ask away at any questions, know that entire area like the back of my hand.
My advice - especially since you have kid(s) - don’t waste 16yrs like I did ignoring winter on Mt Hood. Took some snowboarding lessons with my kid and now absolutely love it. Old dudes can learn.
Its a nightmare driving with my wife in the passes during summer, I would have to sedate her to get her up to Hood in the winter
I’ve taken to almost exclusively driving through Hood River. It’s less extreme through the passes and avoids the clusterfuck of Govy that occurs with any weather. Little bit longer but we’ll worth it.
Yep, this is one thing I plan to do. I have a neighbor older than me who took up snowboarding later in life, he goes ever year to Sugar Mountain in the Smokies. Hoping that I can get my kid more into winter sports like this, but she's not generally very athletic so I may have to force her. Super awesome we'll have a mountain like this only an hour and a half away.
So I am usually up in Tillamook one to two weekends a month. I fly into portland the night before and usually stay at the nines and grab a steak at Urban Farmer, however I'm getting tired of this. Any good restaurants within walking distance of that area? Also I have quickly explored everything there is to do in Tillamook/Netarts/Bay City.
I got caught on the mountain pass on the way back during that snowstorm on valentine's day at 3 in the morning (I left early so I could be back in time for vday dinner). No 4 wheel drive, no chains, no cell phone service and I live in ATX so don't know how to drive in snow. Legit thought I was going to die.
If I went to fogo by myself and drunk (I'm terrified of flying, hence why I fly in early so I have time to sober up and get a rental car the next day) it would be both awesome and sad to just be sitting there by myself with the coin on green. MOAR MEAT lol.
I’ve dove in pretty hardcore to snowboarding history and culture. Hood is such an important piece. During the summer Timberline stays open as the glacier keeps snow. I’ve gone a handful of times over the last couple summers and have seen tons of pros, national teams, etc. No where else like it in North America to train. There are snowboarding camps that run where a large percentage of pros got their start either as campers, working the camp, etc. It’s a special place. Hoping to do this at some point: https://www.powder.com/stories/skiing-longest-day-year
Jake's is kind of near there I guess too Honestly I just hit up the food carts when I'm down there. Villa Angel is the best but they kind of open whenever they want
My wife has some experience driving in very shitty winter weather as she got a Master's at Syracuse, but that was some time ago. Don't want to immediately run out and buy a vehicle with 4 wheel drive and I'm assuming Portland isn't a city where you'd probably get a separate set of snow tires for a mild-ish winter. I'm guessing you can get those easy to remove chains for your tires nearby, but also assuming it's just smarter to go during the latter part of winter if you don't want to feel like you're going to slide off the side of the mountain?
It doesn't snow like that here. Get some chains and you'll be fine. It will dump snow for a few days a year at the lower elevations, at worst
And when that happens in the city, just avoid driving if you can and have chains as a backup. As someone from Michigan, I would get cocky and drive around. I quickly learned it’s not about my skill, it’s about the absolute complete lack of skill of literally everyone else
I will say this…the weather was so much more consistent than Nebraska it’s not even funny while none of it really sucking imo. Woke up the other day and it was 35. Got into the 80’s that day. Woke up the next morning and there was snow on the ground and the wind was blowing 25 mph. Was in Omaha and it was 70 one day and 25 miles northwest (and obviously you know Nebraska doesn’t have mountains to drastically change that) it was 45 outside where the front was coming through. It did a pattern of this while developing tornadoes over us that hit Iowa every other day. I fucking hate the weather here and we will get 2 weeks of spring before my balls stick to the side of my leg.
A million times this. I got hit twice, including once where a car smashed their brakes and t-boned me…in a 4 lane as I’m going the opposite direction. This was followed by my rental being hit when somebody came around a corner and hit 2 cars behind me at a light smashing into me…within 4 days. This was my first experience with snow in the Portland metro. 2nd experience, work called off first time and I got a snow day and walked to the bar
Yeah this is freaking insane. We got to tour the house one more time before we left town. Thankfully the inspector didn't find much outside the roof, it's likely on its last legs which is the case with our current house in Georgia.
The one positive is there's no tall skinny southern pine trees with branches hanging over the roof that are just waiting to snap off like our current place. This backyard definitely can't be neglected though, I'm paranoid about getting water damage.
The key is preparing pre-bloom. I have started to master taming my landscaping before everything explodes (while also removing a fuck ton of my lawn).