I just want to remind everyone: Washington, Idaho and Oregon are terrible places to live.<p>In 2 of these states, it just rains all the time. You never ever want to visit these waterfalls, because you're perennially living <i>in</i> a waterfall. The local population is always depressed/suicidal. The only Oregonian of note got in trouble for that whole Nancy Kerrigan fiasco. And Washington is under the grip of Bezos and Gates. If you think Windows is bad ...<p>And Idaho, is, well, Idaho. There's a reason people doubt its existence.[1] It's because there is absolutely nothing of note there.<p>Texas is great! Lots of land. Number 1 in green energy. Go there.<p>[1] <a href="https://www.facebook.com/groups/221739400799965/posts/302745469366024/" rel="nofollow">https://www.facebook.com/groups/221739400799965/posts/302745...</a>
The parent comment is a tongue-in-cheek comment that emphasizes the negatives of a location because the commenter likes it so much.<p>The idea (and it's a semi joke) is that it will discourage more people from coming so it doesn't get spoiled.<p>A bit like telling people some tiny restaurant isn't all that good, because if too many people eat there, you will never get a table again.
30 years ago, listening to FM radio in the Seattle area (probably Marty Reimer on KMTT), the DJ was talking about the gorgeous weather we were experiencing and added “if you’re talking to folk down in California, be sure to let them know how gray and rainy it is”.
Yes everyone should stay away from Washington, Oregon, and Idaho! Terrible places to live! California is a dream compared to those hell-holes.
I agree! These are just miserable places to live. Please reconsider just moving to Arizona or Utah. Leave us to our 10 months of misery a year. :)
Indeed! No one made a song with the title "Washington Dreamin". Same with Oregon and Idaho.
Yep, this is sooo true. Washington and Oregon are especially terrible. I tell you what, you're going to be sitting in traffic in Seattle just as much as you do in LA. And it's all very expensive. Texas is a much better decision.
Please move to Texas. Those of us who like waterfalls, are not suicidal, and who will accept beautiful nature in lieu of a functional state government appreciate you freeing the capacity for someone else.
I guess the OP has never experienced any part of eastern Oregon or Washington.
That I don't get about the PNW is the property prices of places <i>hours</i> away from any economic center that pays well enough to justify them. Are <i>that</i> many people still working remote for FAANG that those prices can be justified?
I assume part of this is because there is a lot of national forest not that far from Portland, and aside from a few exceptions here and there you can't buy a piece for yourself. So if you do want your own piece of rural wilderness you have to buy farther way. And Portland does have millions of people, many of whom have the financial resources to buy a little chunk of their own paradise.<p>Personally I'd pay a solid chunk of change for a campsite size chunk of land on the east fork of the Sandy River near Mt. Hood, right where Nottingham Campground is. I'd never leave.
No, but rich assholes like getting away from it all too.
I have no doubts you're right, but got any examples? Just curious to see them.
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Going around shitting on other states is a very Texan thing to do
Is this a meme? I've never heard it before.
The meme is "<____> sucks, dont' go there." Traditionally spoken by a "local", in reference to stuff they love. It kinda/sorta makes sense in the broader culture of "locals define themselves by excluding others" left-coast parochialism. (I don't think HN is the correct place for it.)<p>Another example of the meme style is this ski resort "tier" map:
<a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/skiing/comments/1d96f93/my_tierlist_for_california_ski_resorts/" rel="nofollow">https://www.reddit.com/r/skiing/comments/1d96f93/my_tierlist...</a><p>Which is actually funny. And the "joke" is that the person who made the tier list is trying to "hide" the resorts they want to ski (Mt Rose., Mammoth, Kirkwood, Sugar Bowl, Alpine) from whoever's reading the blog post. While falsely "praising" the famous places in an effort to divert the crowds there. (The Reddit post is great b/c the author clearly communicates that they're being ridiculous.)
Sort of. Phrasing varies, but at least for Idaho it's very common for people who live in Idaho to go on the internet and tell people how awful Idaho is and how you should absolutely not move there.
On a related note, for people who do move to Idaho, one of the things they are advised to do as soon as possible is get new license plates so that they're not constantly advertising the fact that they came from out-of-state.
Idaho has received a massive amount of immigration from other states and many people are unhappy about this.
What? This is absolute lunacy, I hope its sarcasm. It rains a decent amount but not all the time, summer in Oregon is absolutely beautiful and there's plenty of time to visit the waterfalls.
As a Texan,<p>stop telling people to move here, I-35 just keeps getting worse
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