<p>Filmx, your friend is wrong. It’s pronounced OR-RE-GUN. Accent on the first syllable.</p>
<p>LakeWashington –</p>
<p>One more for your post#17 list…Sick’s Seattle Stadium</p>
<p>Isnt Eagle Hardware- where Sicks Stadium was?
and did you see the Sonics are threatening to move to Bellevue?</p>
<p>I pronounce it or-ih-gun
my grandma who was from miss-ur-rah always pronounced it warshinton- and ersters ( oysters)
she never did take advantage of the seafood-</p>
<p>if you are going to live someplace- at least enjoy what it has to offer
I don’t mind the increased density- but don’t build houses in the foothills and then when the wildlife comes into your backyard and eats your cat- don’t shoot it- where do expect them to go?</p>
<p>Trying to think if any of my friends are from Ca- one from Minn, several from the south ( NC and Virginia- Texas), one from Brooklyn, from England-, from Bangladesh-from Taiwan and one from Ethiopia but I guess no one admits to being from Ca. ;)</p>
<p>When I lived there, it was pronounced “Orygun”. There were even t-shirts sold with this spelling on the front to guide proper pronunciation.</p>
<p>The “OH-Ra-Gone” pronunciation that easterners commonly employed made the natives grimace and cover their ears.</p>
<p>My history teacher once got junk mail that read: “Seattle, OR”
It’s all the same!</p>
<p>Haha, so I’ve been pronouncing it correctly all along… Thank you Oregon Trail!</p>
<p>Sushi, I currently live in Vancouver. I commute to Portland daily and don’t find it horrible because I can manage it to suit me. I also don’t really notice any particular dislike of Californians, so I was surprised by Coureur’s story. You can pm me with any questions.</p>
<p>I think everyone is provincial to a certain extent- aren’t there some parts of the east coast where you aren’t considered a native unless your grandparents were born there?</p>
<p>I can’t meet those standards- and I can’t really speak to individual quirks of the Portland Vancouver area, but if you want to get acclimated to Seattle, learn to drive in the rain- get your wipers ,brakes and tires changed regularly, and allow for stopping distance on wet pavement.
Don’t sneer at people who wear their REI goretex jacket to Benaroya hall, especially if they at least have closed toe shoes on and not flipflops.
Appreciate that the rain gives us our youthful complexions. 
Complain about Starbucks but go there when pressed anyway.
Do the same re Nordstroms.
Dont try and figure out why some people call the I-90 bridge the “old bridge” and the 520 bridge the “new bridge”.
I know there is a thread somewhere on regional quirks so I wont go on- but I don’t really think Portland traffic is that bad, its the Olympia to Tacoma traffic that can really be nasty.
( I will be driving D back to Portland sat- it is supposed to be the sunniest day- I really don’t like freeway driving- and dark- rainy freeway driving is the worst so crossing my fingers I get out of the house before 10)</p>
<p>Get used to Nalgene water bottles and NorthFace sweaters.</p>
<p>Inorder that there is no misunderstanding, I meant Southern Cal in the Spring. Like the one in '05.</p>
<p>What HS and Class? Me SSHS’68. Bro SSHS’62, and son SSHS’01</p>
<p>D has a Washington driver’s license, lives in an apartment, and is a registered voter. Because she is not financially independent, she must pay out-of-state tuition at Evergreen. Her car has California plates. She pays California state income tax. I have assumed that because she is a student, she is not truly a Washington state resident. Am I wrong?</p>
<p>Tuition has different standards</p>
<p>independent students have to be
24
completed 1st degree
military
married or have a dependent
or if someone is ward of state once they are 18 they are considered independent</p>
<p>Thanks for bringing up Sicks Stadium (yes, the builder/owner’s name was Mr. Sicks). Became the site of Eagle Hardware, but didn’t eagle hardware go out of business in the late 1980s or early 1990s?</p>
<p>Anybody ever go to a Seattle Rainiers baseball game at Sicks? Dad took me to see the Red Sox at Sicks during the Seattle Pilots first and only season in the Great Northwest.</p>
<p>And who can forget about Renton, the home of Boeing Co. and the syncronated traffic light capital of the world?</p>
<p>Yep, many Rainier games…</p>
<p>nope my family were’nt sports fans- didnt go to a baseball game until I had kids ( except for the baseball games down in Kirkland)
Ketchikan the animal man did live across the street though.</p>
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<p>Madras HS '69. My parents soon after moved to Salem. My younger siblings all went to McNary.</p>
<p>coureur: School realignment in '69 placed sister at McNary-she’s '70.</p>