This is Portland, we do what we like. This is Portland, we do what we like.

PS What the fuck should I do with three days off and no car around here? Haven't had three days off in a row for like a year.

Drinkin', obv.

Yes, well, doing that.

Beerztime should happen at some point when I have beerzmoney. (Or before then if y'all should have beerztime without me.)

North Portland: tell me about this place.

North Portland is awesome.

Which part?

Tell me about different parts of North Portland! I don't know anything.

Are we talking St. John's and the fifth quadrant proper, or like Mississippi/Alberta? Both are awesome in their own ways. I'd live in Mississippi if I'd found a place. St. John's is v cool, but difficult to travel from to SE and other normally pertinent areas. I'd happily live there if I only rarely had to go west/southeast.

St Johns looks far outside of walking distance from the yellow line, which is the most important thing. Mississippi looks like a good location. In what ways is it awesome? The areas north and northwest of there would work, too.

I think Mississippi (haven't actually spent that much time up there, but did look at living there) is at that point in a neighborhood's development where there are shops and bars and restaurants but it's still mostly people who live close whom you'll see on a daily basis. Not that that's such a huge thing, it just feels very neighborhood-y. Housing also cheaper, I looked at a 2-bedroom house for $900 that, if I'd faxed in the application 2hrs earlier, I'd be living in right now.

Fuck, I just got my first speeding ticket ever on the way home from Astoria. It was on that fraction of the roadway right in Clatskanie where the limit halves, then goes back to normal over the course of like less than a mile.

Hey, I don't post here much, but since I live in the Mississippi area, thought I'd respond. I've lived up here for about a year now (used to live further out in NE), and it's really a great place to live. A lot of cheap food (there's a block of food carts just going in this month), good bars, parks, etc.

In terms of the areas directly adjacent to the yellow line, it kinda seems like the one with the most urban neighborhood-y feel; the areas to the north of it (Piedmont, Kenton) are more straight residential, I think mostly families living there.

I'll second the recommendation to get your bike working here as soon as you can. Trimet connects NoPo pretty well to downtown, but not as well to other parts of the eastside. Before I started biking most everywhere, I often would have to take the bus downtown, transfer, and come back across the river to get to where I was going.

As of right now, I don't really have anywhere I need to go except for Vancouver, Downtown, and maybe the occasional trip to Southwest. Of course this is all contingent on my employment situation and how that changes. Hopefully I can get a bit of exploring done tomorrow.

Fuck, I just got my first speeding ticket ever on the way home from Astoria. It was on that fraction of the roadway right in Clatskanie where the limit halves, then goes back to normal over the course of like less than a mile.

― kingfish, Wednesday, September 16, 2009 5:50 PM Bookmark

Never speed in small towns.

hey i'm back, let's drink!

into it

it wasn't even a small town! It was like an intersection than quickly went back into forest!

I am also back and thirsty

xp Clatskanie is an incorporated city. Small towns like that are notorious for speed traps.

Might have a job, might not have a roof. :/

Totally a better and less common situation than the converse. If you need any practical housing finding advice, I am a recent expert, feel free to webmail.

And for the record, any newcomer PDX ilxor has a standing offer from me for a night's free beers in the event of a Portland FAP.

(One night per ilxor, certain restrictions apply, must be willing to get Drunked)

hmmmm, might have to take you up on that, plans tomorrow night, tho

Whenever, I work swings aka The Lush Shift.

Not playing favorites tho, when some pseudo-lurker moves here in a year or two, f'real, let me know. Gotta weird Quantum Leap ethos wrt PDX noobs.

so fucked :(

nah man it'll work out. if you've got a job you'll find housing pretty easily, it's plentiful. it's jobs that nobody can find.

I didn't hear back.

Plus I have to be out of my friend's place by Monday and don't have a month's rent's worth of money.

So as of now, I have no job, no place, no money.

hey we have a small empty Airstream trailer in Eugene if you get desperate, just sayin'. we could put you up for a week at least with no problem. but it might be hard to commute for jobhunting.

Yeah, Eugene is a bit too far away to be useful. Thanks for the offer, though.

Not as fucked as I thought.

What is your job and how soon do you need a place?

Plus I have to be out of my friend's place by Monday.....So as of now, I have no job

Money is no longer an immediate issue, though.

Well that's good.

Ugh. No one has space until the first. And I can't stay where I am. I might have to leave back home tomorrow. So freaking bummed.

Shit, worst case scenario, just hit up one of the hostels around here.

Or craigslist.

I've been all over craigslist trying to find a place, but like I say, no one is trying to fill a room til the 1st.

Are you on Livejournal? Post to the damnportlanders community.

not on lj

What about this sort of thing

http://portland.craigslist.org/mlt/sub/1385836715.html

I mean, totally not ideal, but cheap and with an immediate move in.

http://www.portlandhostel.org
http://www.nwportlandhostel.com/

Feels kinda spammy, but I'd rather do it here than on a Trumans thread.. Trumans Water/Castanets show at the house here (Woodstock area) on Saturday if anyone goes for that kind of thing.

so, I am staying in the nw hostel for now, hopefully to have own place soon

Which hostel, rev? You might in my hood.

the nw hostel, like I say

Ah. If it's the one I'm thinking of I am like five blocks away from you at a bar. HEY!

what bar?

I was just at the blue moon and another one I didnt note the name of

The matador. It's my local. Stop by if you'd like! (but I'm not sure how much longer I'll be out tonight tbh.)