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Portlanders apparently upset with the direction of the local housing market are slapping "no Californians" stickers on For Sale signs in the city, real estate agents say."
When one of realtor Lori Fenwick's buyers sent her a picture of one of the stickers, she took it to a real estate group on Facebook to see if any other agents had seen them around town.
Three other realtors replied they had. One of them was Quinn Irvine, of M Realty. Somebody plastered one of the stickers – showing a silhouette of California with a "No Smoking"-like red slash through it – on his sign outside a house on North Burrage Avenue.
"A lot of these homes are going into bidding wars and going over ask price," Irvine said. "And a lot of these guys are getting outbid. And I think they're going around to agents who have properties that have sold over ask price and putting anti-California stickers."
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More understandable in TX.
"Don't Californicate Oregon!" used to be the slogan, but I think the horse is already out of the barn in Portland when it comes to that.
Oregonians have been absurd annoying reverse-snobs about Californians since forever. I mostly grew up there so I know. So pure and unspoiled (with no homegrown businesses other than Nike and the forests) unlike SOME (horrible fake tan plastic corporate people with earned income) people. Now they've got a little real estate boomlet going (won't last) based on proximity to California and having some leftover tech biz and they're behaving true to form. Jackasses.
"Keep Portland Weird" is bullshit btw. The weirdest thing in Portland is a clean-shaven guy wearing a nice suit and going to work at a real job, for money.
Most of these buyers are not from California, but it is funny. Portland is way over priced for its job market, it is not Seattle.
So how about a song?
They used the solidus instead of the backslash too. It must be interchangeable.
Like hieroglyphics, it's a stylistic decision. Had they used backslash it would mark over their picture of California instead of crossing it. This way their silhouette shows better. I bet a dollar they tried both ways.
Today I spoke to many people all over the place and at one point of exhaustion and near bodily stress I stood atop an outdoor stairway made of metal. I was just starting down when a woman started up. She flew up the stairs like a deer. Then behind her another woman with a girl and they too took the steps ably. Then yet another, a sudden rush it seemed just as I was heading down, and the last one holding a notebook walked straight up athletically without using the rails. Gorgeous. Before taking both handrails for the way down, always harder than going up, I said to her "Admirable balance" but my mouth didn't work and instead "admumbleballsack" came out instead as I took my first steps down with full concentration sensing in periphery her turn back and look at me and a very strong psychic signal that rang "what the f you mean with that?"
I must now go to John's memorial. I'm going to try to be quiet as possible and keep it short as I can. His family will be my concern. Not so much that I don't belong, because I do, more that I don't want to comport so much anymore and all those working people today doing their things earnestly are more interesting than the TOC sagging money bags (their own insulting term for tired old crowd, not my term). I keep thinking okay one last visit with the TOC but that's wishful thinking. In the least more are overdue to pop off and will soon enough and I cannot avoid all of them.
Liberals complaining about other liberals. Always fun to watch.
I just finished a book about the LA Gangster Squad back in the 40's/50's. Some of the first recruits for the Gangster Squad were goon cops who were assigned to Okie/hobo duty in the 30's/40's. They went to the California/Nevada border and kicked the asses of those migrants wanting to come to LA and SoCal. Trump might like to being back these "Welcome Wagon" squads. Somehow, I don't think the pansy Oregon Ducks have it in them. They need a new mascot.
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