oregonsux

Things are actually getting worse. Hurricane force winds on the coast, a snowstorm paralyzes Portland, record torrential rains, record heat….

What an unpleasant place.

What a vile state. From the constant rain, the constant gloom, the cold and then, for kicks, the excessive dusty heat, Oregon is a terrible place. It always seems to be at the top for unemployment, suicide, depression…they must all be related.

The people are deeply ignorant, uneducated for the most part, rednecked to the max outside of Portland, racist, sexist and alarmingly unhappy and aggressively so. If you enjoy being depressed, if you enjoy financial ruin, if you want your career to become nonexistent then Oregon is definitely for you.

It has IMO a false reputation for being a beautiful state but the scenery is so-so, the beaches are too cold and overcast to be charming and everything else is just mud and overgrown blackberries. Multnomah Falls is the best on offer but it’s just a small park on the side of a highway with a tall but otherwise unimpressive fall. It’s not Bridal Veil.

The Rose Gardens are about the size of a large family yard and the roses are very spindly. Why Portland is called the Rose City is beyond me. Portland should be called moss city, blackberry city, mud city, mold city, algae city and be much closer to achieving truth in advertising.

Oregonians are, rather sadly, still trying to claim that they want people to stay away in order to keep the state unspoiled. That’s a 20 year old ad campaign that was supposed to boost the morale of Oregonians since everyone wanted to move to California….including Oregonians.

Now it’s ‘please come and bring your business’ because there are many unemployed and underemployed people out here. That’s actually quite sad because it’s hard to sell a house out here now that the housing market bubble has popped just as it’s difficult to get a comparable professional position if you lose yours.

It’s a great deal of risk for an unimpressive place. I wish someone had bothered to warn me instead of feeding me lies.

Save your sanity, your finances, your health and your well-being. Avoid anything Oregon at all costs.

There’s something seriously wrong with the entire state. It’s more than just the horrific weather, the lack of sunshine, the unfriendly and uneducated populace. It’s something that saps your energy, causes tremendous financial losses and makes perfectly reasonable people deeply unhappy.

What is it?

Who knows. Maybe it’s in the air, in the mud, in the water….maybe it’s just pervasive, very bad luck.