| >>I've noticed an interesting thing about many people in Oregon/Washington...they rabidly hate people from California.<<
This is certainly true, and I speak as a Washington native who went high school in Oregon and now lives in SoCal.
A few years ago I drove back home to Oregon to visit my mother. When we stopped for a meal in a shopping center some people spotted my CA plates in the parking lot and came over and told us to get back in the car and clear out, that Californians were *not* welcome. I had never been treated so rudely by strangers in all my life.
I told them that I was living in Oregon before they were even born, that I had every right to come back and visit my mother and the grave of my father, and that their extremely bad manners made me ashamed to say I was also from Oregon.
It was after that ugly incident that I knew I had outgrown the Pacific Northwest. SoCal for me. The people really are friendlier here. |