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I think I need a change too. Maybe I'll go with you.

Isn't Mt St Helens still considered active?

Still a great city :)

Mt. St. Helens is some distance between both Seattle and Portland. But both towns have their own active volcanos too. I guess it's a matter of which one blows first.

Heh, true. But it's closer than you'd think. My family learned that (along with everybody else in Portland) back in '80.

I'm just tryin' to keep you here in DC... :)

Eckstein is a little ball of energy, too, and he always puts in 110%. (Interpret that as you will.)

But could you at least update that pic? He hasn't been an Angel since 2004.

Yo Jimbo! Glad to see you're still keeping up with the A's...the hottest baseball team ever!

Three points on Portland - 1) Cascadia fault zone 2) Portland's building codes didn't take this into consideration until the 90s and 3) gay scene? What gay scene?

Uh, Jimbo..? Just a perspective from a Seattleite [who'd be only too happy you were even as close as PDX]: name a 'gay scene' that *isn't* tired.

Can ya? :)

dang, jimbo...so many disses on poor SF! so yes, while expensive we're very close to both the ocean and the mountains. i don't own a car, so traffic is no bother. what was that other one...oh wait, another tremor...hold on...phew, just 4.4 this time. ;-)

Buenos Aires has a pretty fun gay scene. But it is a bit of a schlep.

Luis Gonzales is still my fav baseball player. He's adorkable. Mark McGuire is also a hottie and, according to someone I know who went to college with him, has a very nice bat.

Hey, what about Tacoma "America's No. 1 Wired City" Washington?

all i have to say is that i'm way happier here than any other place i've lived in the u.s.
yep portland has earthquakes - we had one last night - it lasted for about 5 seconds and rattled some things. it was centered 20 miles north of the city or so. the gay scene is alive and well, and filled with as much tired drama as other queer meccas (at least there isn't a tired gay-ghetto here). mt. hood / mt. st. helens, about the only thing you have to worry about in pdx central is ash fall and possible laher clogging rivers- possible hydroelectric issues lie here- check the volcanic hazards maps on usgs if yer worried about such things. i would rather have volcanoes than tornadoes - and 95+95% humidity, which i've been through enough of to last a lifetime.

Portland is supremely sublime. I'll be there for four days at the end of this month. Can't wait. All of your lists are spot on.

I was kind of kidding about the volcano/faultline issues. But not really kidding about being bombed issue.

Come on over to Portland. We'd love to have you.

volcano = maybe oozy
faultline = maybe shaky
bombed = prolly dead

Yeah, the bombed or biohazard options are a *little* more offputting.

Well... tell me how it goes. I know I'm getting the hell out of here as soon as school's done. Three years. Just three short years. Three short, law school years.

It's gonna breeze right by.

Oh yeah terrorism is such a problem. Once in what thirty years? Puhleeze.

You forgot Ducks games in Eugene! :-) (big plus in my book)

The coffee is better in PDX... so is the sushi...

And then there's Oregon's #1 cash crop...

On the downside - it rains, rains, gets cloudy and misty, rains again, spritzs, gets nice for 1 month of the year and rains again...

And there's no scene like SF's gay scene... sorry hon, they are one of the reasons gay scenes exist (of course we give credit to NYC too...)

Wait, did I say hon? Ok maybe I need to get away from here too...

We now have to worry about being 'in range' of North Korea so bombing is a possibility...but probably less than the odds they give us on Mt. Hood blowing. They claim 50/50 in the next 40 years. Same thing they said when I moved here 10 years ago.

We's love to have ya' Jimbo! Let us know if we can help out.

People are inherently good?....

More pro-Portland:

1. The Columbia River Gorge -- hiking, biking, windsurfing, whatever. The positive result of the Cascadia subduction zone and the associated vulcanism.

2. Food -- fresh. Beyond fresh. Absurdly good. Add great beer and wine.

3. Outsider culture -- Portland has been, and continues to be, an incubator of microcultures. More than anyplace I've ever lived, Portland has people living off-center in very interesting and constructive ways.

4. Powell's Books -- ah. Enough said.

I grew up in Portland, my parents having moved from San Francisco when I was six. I left, definitively in 1985, and have been trying to get back ever since. Am back at least three times a year.

San Francisco is a city that's like the friend who's just too beautiful to ever f*ck. I love being there, but have never really wanted to live there. Seattle wants to be something that it's not. I'll stop my defamation of Seattle with that. And the potential of a Mt. Ranier eruption and subsequent mud flows really is a threat to the Seattle-Tacoma region.

You forgot to mention that world famous wildly popular super-blogger Aaron (http://www.trochaeus.com/blogs/interea/)is from Portland.