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Posted on 04/09/2015 5:30:13 AM PDT by Mamzelle
Dear Oregon Freepers--it's been my misfortune to have a particularly obnoxious, arrogant, condescending liberal from Portland become part of a cherished social circle. I have heard so much about "how we do it in Portland" that I started doing research about this area of the country, its politics, and finally its cruelty to the religious.
Amen! That’s an idea. Maybe I’ll start a prayer thread. I encourage you to read the awful, hateful responses on “Oregonlive.com” when you search up Sweet Cakes by Melissa.
Right. May they end up in Asheville, where their despicable lawyer-mayor flies gay flags but not the American...
Thanks. I’m trying. I didn’t know this capability existed on FR. (Would you help?)
Well, you have NEVER met a transplant as supercilious as this little tyrant.
Save yourself the grief, remove this person from your circle. Life will be better.
May I assume from your name that you are female? I have heard of this happening to pregnant women in gay-concentrated areas before.
But if I am sufficiently informed, that’s exactly what I might be able to do. Also, the challenge of introducing a nasty, dirty liberal to manners and common decency is a challenge I’m up for. I didn’t mention, this person lacks a sense of humor. Don’t all liberals, really?
I love how expensive hippie life is getting in Asheville, as all the liberals are moving in. Traffic is getting miserable, and liberals are so unhappy that they are making the sleepy, creative little town a wreck of its former self. They can’t all make a living at the Early Girl and Tupelo Honey—because rents are hitting the roof!
No, I’m not trying to “convert” her. But pretty soon the tolerance of the nice people who have made her welcome will fade. She thinks she is bringing “culture” to the hillbillies—and she is appallingly ignorant.
Portland is a beautiful city with great neighborhoods, restaurants, bookstores, arts and craft festivals, great antique stores, hardware stores (not chain) and great neighborhood pubs. It’s a nice place.
It is also very white and un-diverse with regard to politics and points of view. They even mostly dress the same! Once I was at a restaurant and lost track of who my waitress was because they all looked exactly the same ... piercings everywhere, tattoos, strange haircuts, drab clothing, etc. Which is fine, doesn’t bother me but I find it ironic that they do all that to be unique and different ... but it’s just another form of uniformity, not uniqueness.
I will say the worst instance of racism I ever personally witnessed was in Portland OR (and I’ve been a lot of places). I saw some young white men in a pickup truck throw beer bottles at a middle aged black woman sitting at a bus stop. They turned around and came back to throw more stuff at her but she fled into the adjacent (white affluent) neighborhood. I went looking for her to see if she was hurt but could not find her. I can only imagine she was hiding under some shrubbery or something. It was sickening and still is sickening to think about this to this day.
Don’t let anyone ever tell you that the northeast doesn’t have racism. They have their issues like anywhere else in the world.
There are plenty of churches there, whether or not they are well attended I cannot say. Probably not as much as other areas of the country.
Black people are small minority and live mostly in one area of town that is more affordable. Portland home prices are very expensive if you live what they call “close-in” in the many beautiful leafy green neighborhoods with many beautiful and expensively restored old houses, mostly from the 1890’s to the 1930’s. If you love old houses and older buildings, Portland is a place you’d love. They didn’t tear down everything and put up crap 1960’s and 70’s architecture like so many cities did ... so it has a lot of character.
The suburbs are just like anywhere USA. Totally unremarkable.
The natural beauty of the area can hardly be beat and there are numerous places to get out into nature in stunning landscapes. Portland is warmer and not as rainy as cities along the coast of Washington but it can bet pretty damn dreary in winter if you are not used to it. Plus people seemed to me dress in drab colors. A lot of black, brown and gray. I would wear a colorful outfit and people looked at me like I was from outer space (did I mention the lack of diversity?) I guess like everywhere else, people tend to want to fit in and so they all try to look the same. I’ve noticed this in many places around the world. The only reason it is remarkable in Portland is that they seem to make such a big deal about being ‘diverse’ and unique. They are not. They are the same as people everywhere in their own way.
Although Portland has bridges in dire need of repair, they decided to build a bridge across the Willamette River just for pedestrians and bikers.
Thanks for the compliment.
I think another strategy may work better. Rather than you dissing (in her eyes) her favorite place, maybe you could take her aside and say:
"I think you are homesick. You talk about Portland a lot. It is undoubtedly a beautiful city. I know you are missing many of the wonderful things it had to offer. But you know, every place has some good things to offer as well. I hope you will start noticing those great things here as well." BTW Mamzelle, I have experienced a similar thing with church folk who have moved from the Bible Belt to the West. Whatever way they did it back home was better. They miss the green. They miss the food. They miss the culture. The list goes on and on. It gets pretty annoying. The problem in both situations is that people need to adjust to their new surroundings. They need to be happy where they are. Until they do, they will focus on where they came from and the past instead of the present.
If you would like more information about what's happening in Oregon, please FReepmail me.
I lost my Oregon list when my computer crashed last year, so please send me your name by FReepmail if you want to be on this list.
Another liberal spot is Ashland.
Click the link I posted in my reply to you. It is to the Oregon state board.
Set your state location as Oregon and then you can post on that state board.
I thought they converted an existing bridge for that?
I did the very same thing to a socialist turd from New Jersey that moved to Oregon. He was whining about how the poor schools were going to get their budgets “cut”. I told him there was no “cut” and that the schools were getting 12,800 per student. So in a class of 20 that’s over $250,000. How is it that schools cannot provide education with that amount of money?
He switched subjects and started to wax poetic about how much taxes he paid in New Jersey. I told him to move the eff back and stop trying to turn Oregon into another cr@phole like New Jersey. We never talked after that despite being in the same National Guard unit.
I refuse to put up with progressives, they are outside my circle.
I appreciate the sentiment, and your good sense. The person has been shown a nice southern welcome for an adequate amount of time to get over herself—and she’s getting worse, as she has conceived some kind of mission to improve the superstitious (Christian) and cretinous (southern accented) locals.
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