Goddamn Minnesotans, ruining everything!

Hey, that's me in the the big black San Francisco line!

Question: being born in Vantucky and moving to Portland as a teenager, does that count as being a transplant, or at some distance do we grant some sort of boundary exception?

Every county south of Lane is all Californians coming in and the people living there getting the hell out and heading north.

L.A. county looks like a shotgun to the head.

Look! There's Matt Davis!

We're the New New Jersey Shore.

How do they know?

SPK - it's IRS data.

@ Anony: Vancouver has essentially been unofficially annexed as a semi-sequel to Gresham. So no, I don't think that qualifies you as a transplant.

Maybe more like a skin graft.

@ everyone else: No one has said a derisive word about "those goddamn Californians" moving up here yet. That seems odd to me. Unless it's an indicator that so many of you are former Californians that there aren't enough of us native Oregonians left to hate you all properly.

Soon we're going to have to start hating Mexicans for stealing our jobs.

"Minnesotans, ruining everything" you mean making everything 0 : )

I think its funny.Who really cares?How many on your staff are transplants?

I don't think the pernicious influence of Californian migration or development money is quite as powerful here as it is in other part of the state.

In Southern Oregon, for instance, Californians moving there drove up housing prices out of all proportion. That happens in Portland but not as much. Housing prices in Medford are just about as high as they is here, but the median income from employment there is much, much lower.

I also go the impression over the last decade that the planning people in Jackson County have just given up. What ever California development money wants, it gets. That doesn't seem to be the case here. You can't force Metro to let you buy property, in or out of the urban growth boundary, and build whatever crappy monstrosity that you want.

In Southern Oregon you see them do things that are expressly forbidden by land use law and get away with it.

I moved in 2006 from Miami. I should get extra credit points for distance.

I moved a couple years ago from Centralia, WA. So that's like transplanting my foot onto my shin, right? Or in Centralia terms, transplanting a needle into a vein. Right?

@Nex: It could just be that you're in self-deprecating company. I poke fun at the East to remind me why I hate the homeland & love Portland.

My regards as to the native status. Hopefully, some day you'll gain the courage to venture out of the Shire. (Yep, that was an LOTR-inspired burn.)