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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Vargo" data-source="post: 2988669" data-attributes="member: 4436">Dunno about Oregon or Idaho, but in Washington state that statement would read "People from California are disliked by the people from California who already are here."Back in the late '70s, Seattle (which was, and remains the population center of Washington) went through a major downturn as Boeing had a falloff in orders.  People left like crazy, seeking work elsewhere.  The population dropped like a stone, and there was a billboard in Seattle reading "Would the last person out please turn off the lights?"Well, the upshot of that is that the people who stuck it out were generally nice, well-mannered, decent people, AND we had a great local environment.  Sometime in the mid-eighties, somebody labeled Seattle "The Most Liveable City".About the same time, Los Angeles sucked.  It still does, but it was even worse then.  Middle class people, tired of hour commute times and horrendously expensive housing looked at Seattle, saw that It Was Good, and emigrated en masse.Thus began The Great Californication.Back in '82, I remember driving south on I-5 with my mom, and having a red sportscar with California license plates pass us using an exit lane, swerving in and out of traffic.  I remember not one, but TWO letters to the editor in the paper about that specific driver.These days, that kind of driving is par for the course.Basically, LA shed a small portion of their population, which completely overran the local populace, and blasted our "nice small town" culture to kingdom come.  What survivors there were fled for Olympia and Bellingham, and Seattle continues to devolve as developers try to remake it in LA's image.I'm still stuck in it for the time being, but my escape plans are starting to hatch...</blockquote>

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