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In the New Yorker...
Jeff Wrangler:
--- Quote from: Jeff Wrangler on July 20, 2015, 01:37:25 pm ---Started to read the Schulz piece at lunch today. Holy crap! :o
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--- Quote from: serious crayons on July 20, 2015, 10:01:27 pm ---I know, right? That piece was so vivid that since reading it on Saturday a couple of times I've found myself thinking for half a second that an earthquake and tsunami actually HAVE hit the Northwest
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Finished it over supper this evening. Well, I didn't want to move to the Pacific Northwest anyway on account of the rain. This is just another good reason not to move there. :-\
serious crayons:
--- Quote from: Jeff Wrangler on July 20, 2015, 10:32:05 pm ---Finished it over supper this evening. Well, I didn't want to move to the Pacific Northwest anyway on account of the rain. This is just another good reason not to move there. :-\
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Same here. Seattle's too rainy and Portland's too hip, so neither is on my list. But if I lived there already, I'd be wondering whether to start packing.
My biggest problem is that I am kind of tempted to move to Denver. But I'm afraid legalized pot is going to cause, or is already causing, real-estate prices to soar. Now it will be even worse, because potheads will be fleeing Washington for Colorado! :laugh:
Front-Ranger:
--- Quote from: serious crayons on July 20, 2015, 11:20:03 pm ---Same here. Seattle's too rainy and Portland's too hip, so neither is on my list. But if I lived there already, I'd be wondering whether to start packing.
My biggest problem is that I am kind of tempted to move to Denver. But I'm afraid legalized pot is going to cause, or is already causing, real-estate prices to soar. Now it will be even worse, because potheads will be fleeing Washington for Colorado! :laugh:
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:laugh: :laugh: Actually, I haven't noticed much of a change here. But there are "herbal dispensaries" that have opened up in blighted areas and foreclosed buildings and have caused a bit of a renewal in these areas.
Jeff Wrangler:
--- Quote from: serious crayons on July 20, 2015, 11:20:03 pm ---Same here. Seattle's too rainy and Portland's too hip, so neither is on my list. But if I lived there already, I'd be wondering whether to start packing.
My biggest problem is that I am kind of tempted to move to Denver. But I'm afraid legalized pot is going to cause, or is already causing, real-estate prices to soar. Now it will be even worse, because potheads will be fleeing Washington for Colorado! :laugh:
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Portland is "too hip" for you? Really?
I'd like to move to Colorado or Wyoming, too. I never gave a thought to the effect of legalized pot on real estate prices. :-\
--- Quote from: Front-Ranger on July 21, 2015, 12:14:08 am --- :laugh: :laugh: Actually, I haven't noticed much of a change here. But there are "herbal dispensaries" that have opened up in blighted areas and foreclosed buildings and have caused a bit of a renewal in these areas.
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I suppose that renewal might be a good thing--unless you're getting displaced by it.
serious crayons:
--- Quote from: Jeff Wrangler on July 21, 2015, 09:31:50 am ---Portland is "too hip" for you? Really?
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I think so. My own neighborhood is sometimes too hip for me. I know I come off like the hippest of the hip :laugh: :laugh: :laugh: but actually I'm not.
Maybe "hip" isn't quite the right word. Maybe more like "lefty" or "crunchy" (though I hate the latter expression). Living in a blue state in an even bluer city in an even bluer neighborhood, I often find myself at odds with my neighbors. Like the one who boasted that her children's favorite meal was tofu and brown rice. Or the many who brag about never having set foot in the Mall of America, which is 10 minutes away. Or the party I attended where everyone started bashing organized religion -- "My husband doesn't belong to any church, but he's the most spiritual person I know" -- and laughing about the fake things they would write under "religion" on hospital admission forms, etc. I felt like the only person in the room who was thinking, "You all sound as intolerant and close-minded and sanctimonious as anyone on the Christian right."
Anyway, that's what I imagine Portland would be like, times 10. I could be wrong --- I was there for a couple of days once, and that's it -- but that's the impression I get.
--- Quote ---I'd like to move to Colorado or Wyoming, too. I never gave a thought to the effect of legalized pot on real estate prices. :-\
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--- Quote from: Front-Ranger on July 21, 2015, 12:14:08 am --- :laugh: :laugh: Actually, I haven't noticed much of a change here. But there are "herbal dispensaries" that have opened up in blighted areas and foreclosed buildings and have caused a bit of a renewal in these areas.
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I've read that the big money isn't so much in selling pot, it's in industries that facilitate pot production and sales, because they don't have the banking problems and there's a demand for, say, real estate where it can be grown and processed, etc.
But I don't know much about macroeconomics, so I don't know how much growth in one industry is enough to move the property-value needle. I imagine there are people like me and Jeff who think Colorado would be a great place to live -- picturesque, outdoorsy, tolerable climate, not too expensive, somewhat crunchy but not excessively so -- and some of that group will find it even more appealing now. My son has a couple of friends who attended Colorado State University, I think, at least partly for that reason.
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