Anonymous #1 1d

Nooooo are you a serious !?

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Anonymous #1 1d

Not that you'd be personally responsible for that if you moved tho

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Anonymous OP 1d

yeah :( I've spent most of my life in WA, but pretty much the same thing is happening in Oregon. There's several places around my hometown where it's unrecognizable from a few years ago because they've torn down the trees and replaced affordable little houses on big plots of land with neighborhoods/condos that nobody can afford

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Anonymous #1 1d

Nah I dont wanna move there, I definitely just appreciate new places and new sights. Oregon has been on my mind for the past 2/3 years. It’s beautiful I can’t believe people are treating it that way

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Anonymous #1 1d

and I hate it because nobody seems to even care. They're widening the roads to try to accommodate the increased traffic. They're redefining zoning laws in favor of the companies who want to build huge expensive suburbs in rural areas/the foothills. One town I lived near used to be a cute little country town where you could drive minutes away from the town center and have evergreen trees towering over both sides of the road. Now it's a concrete hellscape

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Anonymous #1 1d

And plus my parents had no problem finding apartments/buying a house when they were growing up here. But since everything is like Cali-level expensive here now, it seems near impossible for young people now

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Anonymous #1 1d

Sorry for my rant lmao this is just really really personal to me 😭

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Anonymous OP 1d

The Astoria area is really pretty if you do visit. Also, taking one of the highways over the mountains is really fun

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