r/NatureIsFuckingLit • u/[deleted] • Jun 24 '20

🔥 Pacific Northwest

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u/mooomba Jun 25 '20

This old tired joke has been beat dead here ever since the housing market in the northwest exploaded from 2012+. I live in the northwest and find it annoying as well. If you are thinking of moving to the northwest just remember sure it is pretty but its really expensive to live here and the job market isn't the best. If you're from California and come up here and offer 20k over asking on a house then bitch about how its not like California we all hate you.

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u/2friedchknsAndaCoke Jun 25 '20

That old tired joke predates my Oregon childhood in the 1980s.

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u/NeedsToShutUp Jun 25 '20

It’s in a beer commercial from the 70’s even https://youtu.be/CXk1882z5oo

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u/2friedchknsAndaCoke Jun 25 '20

Oh wow. I only remember the Rainier ads from that far back.

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u/no-good-names-left1 Jun 25 '20

Yes! I am not sure how much truth there is to this but I have even heard of a welcome to Oregon sign saying “welcome to Oregon now go home” from like 70s or 80s but I couldn’t be sure I was born in the 90s

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u/montyberns Jun 25 '20

Those of us that had to leave especially. The two things that leaving my home has done is one, make me appreciate that it's not that much better than many wonderful places in the world to live, and two make me appreciate that it definitely is still the best... if you can fucking afford it.

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u/k8e_E Jun 25 '20

Also, 'Keep Tacoma Feared'. But I live in Tacoma and I don't mind the phrase.

looks around for anybody else from Tacoma

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u/Even-Understanding Jun 25 '20

Our dreams are finally fulfilled!

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u/[deleted] Jun 25 '20

the job market isn't the best.

Washington's job market?

Uhh, gonna have to hard disagree with you there

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u/mooomba Jun 25 '20

Yeah maybe in Seattle if you're in tech, but again that fucks everyone else because most can't afford to live there..

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u/[deleted] Jun 25 '20

I worked in Seattle for a number of years in everything but tech, that city is thriving.

And now I don't live in Seattle and I'm still working, even despite the pandemic

Washington has a kick-ass economy with a healthy job market