I love the weather there. I’d rather be depressed in the cold forest than to have my skin scorched. I don’t want to deal with fascists though and it seems to be a constant battle between them and antifa in Portland. How’s rent and walkability there?
I love the weather there. I’d rather be depressed in the cold forest than to have my skin scorched. I don’t want to deal with fascists though and it seems to be a constant battle between them and antifa in Portland. How’s rent and walkability there?
There's definitely STEM opportunities in the PNW. I came to Washington from Florida in 2012 to go to school and I much prefer it here over fucking Florida lol. It took a few years to really adapt to the winter, but it's pretty mild compared to a lot of the interior or north eastern US. I've lived on the east side of the Cascades and west side and it's def more conservative and trumpy on the East. West of the Cascades you get hicks up in the hills but the towns are mostly full of libs. Like anywhere in the US it's pretty varied, overall less conservative than Central Florida I would say.
The real Nazi/fascist/white separatist hotspots are in places in the interior like the Idaho panhandle and western Montana. I think Spokane is pretty politically fucked but I've never lived there so I don't know specifically. I think the Xtian Dominionist that got elected to the state legislature came from Spokane valley, which is basically a conservative suburb district.
I keep forgetting that Idaho is in the west. My day is ruined
Idaho can be really pretty, it's just full of the shittiest white settler americans.