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altasnob
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altasnob
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 Tue May 10, 2022 10:54 pm |
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I walked through the International District today for the first time since before the pandemic. Nearly every single one of my favorite restaurants had their windows covered in plywood. Decorated plywood, but still plywood. At first I thought they might have gone out of business but then realized they were still open. Tacoma has its share of boarded up businesses right now, but nothing like I saw in Seattle. It was very post-apocalyptic. Other than that, the neighborhood seemed more or less the same. Lots of people out and about.
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Chief Joseph
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Joined: 10 Nov 2007
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Location: Verlot-Priest Lake |
| Randito wrote: | | Chief Joseph wrote: | | O' well my bad, I guess all the burning, looting, violence, and destruction in Seattle and Portland a year or so ago was all fake news, I mainly watch KIRO or KING5. Good to know they are not to be believed.
This thread title should read...."Smart people are moving out of urban counties while the getting is good". |
Stay in Idaho, it is completely safe there.
https://www.krem.com/article/news/local/kootenai-county/293-7165817b-e6ef-4d95-90f8-76f12b4c7585 |
Yea, well here we take out the trash, we don't give them free drugs and room and board.
O' and for you, please stay out of Idaho, we don't like your kind.
Go placidly amid the noise and waste, and remember what comfort there may be in owning a piece thereof.
 hikerman
Go placidly amid the noise and waste, and remember what comfort there may be in owning a piece thereof.
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cdestroyer
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a goodly number of yours are moving here and buying up property, making changes to more suit their previous life style. raising the cost of housing. I have a friend who owns several acres of old railroad bed bordering a river and has been offered more money for it than he made working most of his life.
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zimmertr
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Location: Issaquah |
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Wed May 11, 2022 8:38 am |
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Rural and urban folk throwing shade at one another. A tale as old as time.
I've lived both lives. Y'all aren't so different really.
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Sculpin
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Sculpin
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Wed May 11, 2022 9:10 am |
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| Randito wrote: | | Well If King county is losing population, it certainly isn't reflected in real estate values. |
Right?
This entire thread bears the intellectual heft of Yogi Berra's "nobody goes there anymore, it's too crowded."
Between every two pines is a doorway to the new world. - John Muir
Randito
Between every two pines is a doorway to the new world. - John Muir
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Cyclopath
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Wed May 11, 2022 9:26 am |
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| Chief Joseph wrote: | | O' well my bad |
True.
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Randito
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Wed May 11, 2022 9:53 am |
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Cyclopath
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Wed May 11, 2022 12:16 pm |
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| Chief Joseph wrote: | | Yea, well here we take out the trash, |
When did this turn into a thread about dating preferences? 
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Sculpin
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Wed May 11, 2022 1:40 pm |
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| Cyclopath wrote: | | a thread about dating preferences? |
I wasn't going to post it. I swear I wasn't. But now I have to:
 Duckboy Cards Inc. Hamilton, MT
Between every two pines is a doorway to the new world. - John Muir
Waterman
Between every two pines is a doorway to the new world. - John Muir
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Backpacker Joe
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I grew up in Issaquah. I used to spend a lot of time in and around Seattle. The good ole days. Eleven years ago I moved onto 7 acres outside of Cle Elum. I spent 200,000. I have no idea what my place is worth today. I dont care because Ill never move. I paid my house off in four years. I was lucky I could do that. My property taxes are 2000.00 a year! Are there things Ive given up, sure there are. The benefits so outweigh the sacrifice's its not even a thought. Its so quiet and peaceful here. To me its paradise. I certainly dont ever expect to see the same kind of unrest here that we see/have seen in the urban areas. A lot of us locals have talked about it, If it ever comes here, its going to end here!
Summer time.
 home in the summer  Toms place
"If destruction be our lot we must ourselves be its author and finisher. As a nation of freemen we must live through all time or die by suicide."
— Abraham Lincoln
Waterman
"If destruction be our lot we must ourselves be its author and finisher. As a nation of freemen we must live through all time or die by suicide."
— Abraham Lincoln
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zephyr
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Thu May 12, 2022 5:08 pm |
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| Backpacker Joe wrote: | home in the summer |
Awesome! Love the organization. ~z
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Backpacker Joe
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Joined: 16 Dec 2001
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Thank you. Look, for all you NWHikers, if you want a place to stay while your in the east area hiking, come here. Ive got a nice spare bedroom. You can stay here while you hike.
"If destruction be our lot we must ourselves be its author and finisher. As a nation of freemen we must live through all time or die by suicide."
— Abraham Lincoln
Cyclopath
"If destruction be our lot we must ourselves be its author and finisher. As a nation of freemen we must live through all time or die by suicide."
— Abraham Lincoln
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Pyrites
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Pyrites
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Fri May 13, 2022 1:09 am |
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Seattle’s totally burned down. Nothing left. So bad a squid and it’s buddies moved in to the wreckage and started a hockey team.
Keep Calm and Carry On?
Heck No.
Stay Excited and Get Outside!
 Anne Elk
Keep Calm and Carry On?
Heck No.
Stay Excited and Get Outside!
Anne Elk
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Randito
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Fri May 13, 2022 11:22 pm |
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Chief Joseph
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Go placidly amid the noise and waste, and remember what comfort there may be in owning a piece thereof.
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