This place is painful.
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9/29/2012
Painfully stupid.
Let me tell ya about Portland. You know about the incessant rain. Yes it really is that bad. And yes it really does make you depressed. It lasts forever. Drabby drizzles all day long every single day for 10 months. Probably why the people here are so rude. When they're not being phony nice that is.
The culture is very insular. Church people abound. If you don't believe in "their" God, you're either out or a prospect for conversion. Uh, I got my own philosophy on life thank ya very much.
Which brings me to the lack of intelligence. It's mind-boggling! They think they're sooo sophisticated but it's more like the backwoods of Arkansas than not.You cannot get proper service here to save your life. I'm not talking about the restaurants. Other than their sad habit of aping the French, restaurants here are good. That much is true. I hate the roadkill and pets on the menus though. It's like backwoods hillbilly meets European wannabe. Boom! They open a restaurant. The organic local produce is phenomenal. I'm waiting for a truly forward-thinking chef to work with that and that only. Leave the poor battered backyard bunnies alone. There's a restaurant I wanna be a regular at. But this isn't what I meant about service.
Unless you plan on building your own house and everything, you cannot find an intelligent human being to service your property to save your life. We have had a parade of boneheads traipse through our home on a nearly daily basis because it's a given that whoever we hire to do a particular job will no doubt screw it up and need another vendor to fix it! We wait FOREVER for these flakes. Half the time they don't show up! Or if they do it's on a schedule convenient to them. As in an hour earlier than agreed or later. Or they'll come in all gangbusters until they realize you are not going to buy anything from them, no "upgrades" until you service the current grade properly. Service? What's that? It's like a cesspool of adult children with very low IQs.
DO NOT buy a house here. They cram 6 houses to every acre. Huge blobs of concrete where forest once was. And if you think you're getting a view, just wait. They'll come and fill in the land in front of you and put up a bazillion ugly houses and your pretty view is gone. The traffic is just as bad as Los Angeles too.
I regret the day I decided to move up here. I need intelligence. I need people who care about the job they do. People of integrity. I need open-minded people. And I don't mean tats and bones in your ears. And most of all, I need just a little bit of space. GREED has completely overtaken the government. And INCOMPETENCE rules.
In other words, if you're at all intelligent, with standards, you will be in pain trying to have a life here. Portland is for potheads and yuppies. Let those two factions duke it out. I'm bigger than that. Time to go!
Deborah | Tigard, OR