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    RatherBeBrewingRatherBeBrewing Member Posts: 1,557
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    PurpleJ said:

    Portland and Seattle, Washington and Oregon - those are the same things. If you think the place you’re taking shits is better or different then you’re wrong.

    Same shit. Trees, rain, hobos. Just a few degrees latitude difference. Amazon, Microsoft, Intel, Nike. Same shit.

    Sales tax and pumping gas are the difference, that’s it. We have to rely on our football teams to tell us what is better.

    Seattle is objectively superior to Portland, and I say this as someone who hates both cities.
    Same exact shit. It’s the same city, just two hours away. I have to spend time in both, and there’s no difference. Portland has better food, Seattle is less stabby.
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    PurpleBazePurpleBaze Member, Swaye's Wigwam Posts: 29,488
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    My sister (NO PICS!) used to date a guy who went to the University of Oregon. I asked her what he majored in and she replied, “math”.

    To which I replied, “did he do his senior project on the multiplication table?”

    Are you sure she didn't say "meth"?
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    CaptainPJCaptainPJ Member Posts: 2,986
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    You all laugh, but this was a real live debate over at Doogman years back. It morphed into a state level debate where people were comparing / competing over which state had the better geographical topography and greater natural beauty. CastlerockRon/royotis was throwing down for Washington, arguing that Oregon just didn't have an answer for Mt. Rayonier. There were protracted arguments between morons over whether Olympic National Park was better than Crescent Lake, etc. etc.

    This literally went on for months and people were taking it seriously.

    So who won?!!
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    FireCohenFireCohen Member Posts: 21,823
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    PurpleJ said:

    Portland and Seattle, Washington and Oregon - those are the same things. If you think the place you’re taking shits is better or different then you’re wrong.

    Same shit. Trees, rain, hobos. Just a few degrees latitude difference. Amazon, Microsoft, Intel, Nike. Same shit.

    Sales tax and pumping gas are the difference, that’s it. We have to rely on our football teams to tell us what is better.

    Seattle is objectively superior to Portland, and I say this as someone who hates both cities.
    Same exact shit. It’s the same city, just two hours away. I have to spend time in both, and there’s no difference. Portland has better food, Seattle is less stabby.

    As someone who likes both Seattle and Portland, they are way fucking different

    Seattle is an international city with a fuckton of business and construction going on. It feels like living in a big city to live here and work downtown

    Portland is what you get if you combined Tacoma, Eugene, and Spokane. Fun to visit and go to clubs in. Not a big city feeling. Walking around feels like youre in Tacoma.
    tacoma is a city?
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    GreenRiverGatorzGreenRiverGatorz Member Posts: 10,147
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    PurpleJ said:

    Portland and Seattle, Washington and Oregon - those are the same things. If you think the place you’re taking shits is better or different then you’re wrong.

    Same shit. Trees, rain, hobos. Just a few degrees latitude difference. Amazon, Microsoft, Intel, Nike. Same shit.

    Sales tax and pumping gas are the difference, that’s it. We have to rely on our football teams to tell us what is better.

    Seattle is objectively superior to Portland, and I say this as someone who hates both cities.
    Same exact shit. It’s the same city, just two hours away. I have to spend time in both, and there’s no difference. Portland has better food, Seattle is less stabby.

    As someone who likes both Seattle and Portland, they are way fucking different

    Seattle is an international city with a fuckton of business and construction going on. It feels like living in a big city to live here and work downtown

    Portland is what you get if you combined Tacoma, Eugene, and Spokane. Fun to visit and go to clubs in. Not a big city feeling. Walking around feels like youre in Tacoma.
    Not to mention there's a significant difference in geography (sorry creep) throughout the rest of each respective state. The sound and islands are uniquely WA, and there's an actual mountain range running through the spine of the state. OR meanwhile has a developed coast line that WA doesn't have, yet outside of a few isolated peaks, lacks an actual range. Then there's the huge differences between the two cities that you brought up.

    I'm not going to dive into the dick measuring contest between the two, but it's incredibly stupid to try to make the case that the two states are one and the same. They're not. This is not an Iowa versus Nebraska case study.
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    creepycougcreepycoug Member Posts: 22,749
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    PurpleJ said:

    Portland and Seattle, Washington and Oregon - those are the same things. If you think the place you’re taking shits is better or different then you’re wrong.

    Same shit. Trees, rain, hobos. Just a few degrees latitude difference. Amazon, Microsoft, Intel, Nike. Same shit.

    Sales tax and pumping gas are the difference, that’s it. We have to rely on our football teams to tell us what is better.

    Seattle is objectively superior to Portland, and I say this as someone who hates both cities.
    Same exact shit. It’s the same city, just two hours away. I have to spend time in both, and there’s no difference. Portland has better food, Seattle is less stabby.

    As someone who likes both Seattle and Portland, they are way fucking different

    Seattle is an international city with a fuckton of business and construction going on. It feels like living in a big city to live here and work downtown

    Portland is what you get if you combined Tacoma, Eugene, and Spokane. Fun to visit and go to clubs in. Not a big city feeling. Walking around feels like youre in Tacoma.
    Not to mention there's a significant difference in geography (sorry creep) throughout the rest of each respective state. The sound and islands are uniquely WA, and there's an actual mountain range running through the spine of the state. OR meanwhile has a developed coast line that WA doesn't have, yet outside of a few isolated peaks, lacks an actual range. Then there's the huge differences between the two cities that you brought up.

    I'm not going to dive into the dick measuring contest between the two, but it's incredibly stupid to try to make the case that the two states are one and the same. They're not. This is not an Iowa versus Nebraska case study.
    There's an actual mountain range running through Oregon. The difference in actual height of the range is hard to discern and is a detail to the average outdoorsman. Agreed on the Sound. Coastal Oregon is just better than coastal Washington except for the ONP stretch which competes well, but Oregon wins the coast thing hands down, and not just because of development.

    They are not exactly the same but they share many, many similarities. Oregon has a lot of very beautiful wilderness areas ... that was the point of my post. Two idiots once tried to make this an actual debate, when there's really nothing to debate.

    About 1/2 dozen of my favorite places in the world are in Washington and about 1/2 dozen are in Oregon. The Sound is pretty to look at but island life in the Sound, and the Sound itself, isn't in my wheelhouse. We like to take a ferry ride now and then but I'm a freshwater guy up here and a salt water guy in the tropics. Never, ever the other way around.
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    creepycougcreepycoug Member Posts: 22,749
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    PurpleJ said:

    Portland and Seattle, Washington and Oregon - those are the same things. If you think the place you’re taking shits is better or different then you’re wrong.

    Same shit. Trees, rain, hobos. Just a few degrees latitude difference. Amazon, Microsoft, Intel, Nike. Same shit.

    Sales tax and pumping gas are the difference, that’s it. We have to rely on our football teams to tell us what is better.

    Seattle is objectively superior to Portland, and I say this as someone who hates both cities.
    Same exact shit. It’s the same city, just two hours away. I have to spend time in both, and there’s no difference. Portland has better food, Seattle is less stabby.

    As someone who likes both Seattle and Portland, they are way fucking different

    Seattle is an international city with a fuckton of business and construction going on. It feels like living in a big city to live here and work downtown

    Portland is what you get if you combined Tacoma, Eugene, and Spokane. Fun to visit and go to clubs in. Not a big city feeling. Walking around feels like youre in Tacoma.
    I'd give Portland a whole lot more credit than that. Agree not a big city feeling but combing those three nowhere cities under-values Portland as a great mid-size city.
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    YellowSnowYellowSnow Moderator, Swaye's Wigwam Posts: 33,959
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    CaptainPJ said:

    You all laugh, but this was a real live debate over at Doogman years back. It morphed into a state level debate where people were comparing / competing over which state had the better geographical topography and greater natural beauty. CastlerockRon/royotis was throwing down for Washington, arguing that Oregon just didn't have an answer for Mt. Rayonier. There were protracted arguments between morons over whether Olympic National Park was better than Crescent Lake, etc. etc.

    This literally went on for months and people were taking it seriously.

    So who won?!!
    Washington, of course.

    Lake Chelan was the tie breaker. The Oregonians had no answer.
    I have to go with Oregon from a geological / topography perspective. I prefer Bachelor to any of the WA ski resorts although Seattle is way closer to Whistler. Oregon's wine country is way better than Washington's. Oregon coast is better too. The Bend / Sunriver area is fantastic.
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    BleachedAnusDawgBleachedAnusDawg Member, Swaye's Wigwam Posts: 10,526
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    PurpleJ said:

    Portland and Seattle, Washington and Oregon - those are the same things. If you think the place you’re taking shits is better or different then you’re wrong.

    Same shit. Trees, rain, hobos. Just a few degrees latitude difference. Amazon, Microsoft, Intel, Nike. Same shit.

    Sales tax and pumping gas are the difference, that’s it. We have to rely on our football teams to tell us what is better.

    Seattle is objectively superior to Portland, and I say this as someone who hates both cities.
    Same exact shit. It’s the same city, just two hours away. I have to spend time in both, and there’s no difference. Portland has better food, Seattle is less stabby.

    As someone who likes both Seattle and Portland, they are way fucking different

    Seattle is an international city with a fuckton of business and construction going on. It feels like living in a big city to live here and work downtown

    Portland is what you get if you combined Tacoma, Eugene, and Spokane. Fun to visit and go to clubs in. Not a big city feeling. Walking around feels like youre in Tacoma.
    I'd give Portland a whole lot more credit than that. Agree not a big city feeling but combing those three nowhere cities under-values Portland as a great mid-size city.
    Tacoma has actually turned a corner as far as places to hang out. The old Seattle culture that couldn't afford to stick around is moving south to Tacoma.
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    CallMeBigErnCallMeBigErn Member, Swaye's Wigwam Posts: 4,208
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    One thing is certain, Eastern Oregon>>>>Eastern Washington and it's not even close. Love me some Eastern Oregon.
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