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Those who love living in Portland, Oregon-isn't it grey and grungy a lot? What do you love about Portland? |
Travel Info Those who love living in Portland, Oregon-isn't it grey and grungy a lot? What do you love about Portland? Travel Tips What I love about Portland is the realness of the people who live there. The live and let live attitude. Seattle is way too corporate and uptight. Portland is more relaxed and accepting. Sure, we have our problems and the police-state like quality sucks, but the light rail MAX and tri met rocks!! The weather, well of course we have rain. lots of it. It is an adjustment of attitude. It cleans away, and you don't have to shovel the rain, LOL. Mainly it is the lack of fake people and the beauty of the northwest that attracts. And the mountains!! they are sooo beautiful! Others It's not grey and grungy alot..when I visited my mom there...there was green...on the side walk, the roofs, cars, walls everywhere there was moss or mold or something growing out of everything. Thank God for my desert. You have to pay a price for the tremendous summers in Portland. Typically the sun comes out for good in June - after the Rose Festival, and the rain may stay away until as late as late October, but for sure through September. I'm talking no rain in that period is not uncommon. Temps hover from 70-85. Sounds a lot like San Diego all year around. In Portland, the price is grey, misty, soaking weather from November through May sometimes, with a little snow in January. Moss does very well. Rain forests do very well. Portland urbanites do well as long as they accept this price for the amazing summers of green vegetation, blue sky, and spectacular volcanic mountain peaks of the Cascades are just an hour east - and the scenic coast is just an hour west. Many Portland residents love the rainy fall and winter more than the summers. What I love about Portland is the unique Northwest vibe that is distinct from Seattle and Eugene, but definitely liberal, green-minded, unassuming, welcoming, and nonjudgmental . Long time Oregonian Thats a bid misconception. We have our rainy time of the year, usually early spring. Whats nice is all of the green....trees, grass, beautiful mountains, perfect for outdoor activities. People are pretty laid back, you can just be yourself.. And just so you know, Seattle gets alot more rain each year then Portland....Hope this helps..... PS- Ignore desert boy above me..mold growing on the ground?...obviously the heat has gone to his head Actually, there are a lot of "gray" days in Portland during the winter and spring that it doesn't rain enough to really be a bother. I am talking about 1/4 inch or less in 24 hours. Enough to get things damp, but you can still hike, bike, walk around without an umbrella, etc. It keeps things green and allows you to have a nice lawn without watering it until June or so. The summers are fantastic, too. Usually reasonable temperatures with moderate humidity and not much wind. Portland only gets around 35 inches of rain a year, which is less than a lot of places. The thing about Portland is you need to be prepared for the stretches that a good storm comes through. It will rain hard for several days in a row and it gets a bit depressing. Another nice thing is that it usually only snows a handful of days all year. That is something most of the country can't say, except the SW and SE and those areas have much more extremes in weather. Portland has no hurricanes, tornadoes and not even very many thunderstorms. Reaching 90 degrees is a "heat wave" and 100 is record setting. Maybe once a year a decent windstorm knocks trees down, but it's not too bad. I think in '96, it flooded some areas, but that has never been much of a problem, either. It is not exactly San Diego (basically summer all year), but in Portland you will get all four seasons, but not too much extreme weather. http://portlandor.about.com/od/cityservi... |
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