Hey portland/PNW guys...

[Matt-B]

Been looking at apts in the pearl district. Thoughts?

not to far from local bmw dealership :)

[StereoInstaller1]

Yep, about 40 days/yr more! And traffic in Seattle is much, much worse. Sure we get rush hour here, from about 7-9am and 4-6pm generally, with longer gridlock hours in places. Weekends are smooth sailing. Vs seattle, which as far as I can tell has nothing but traffic jams 24/7. Sunday around noon? Yup, traffic jam. 4am Tuesday morning? I5 is a parking lot.

Having lived in Portland/Vancouver for 15 years and now living in Seattle (Renton, south end of the east side, right by the airport and Boeing) I do believe i have a front row view of the worst traffic in the PNW.

It has taken me 20 minutes to get 1 exit south, like 1.25 miles...at like 10:30AM.

I drove from the far north east corner of Vancouver (4th plain at 162nd) to Rose City Chevrolet (right by the St Johns Bridge) and was able to make it consistently on 40 minutes in my old Nova.

Seattle is 1000X worse traffic no matter how you slice it, not even kinda close.

[z31maniac]

^And I get super annoyed when my 20 mile commute takes more than 23 minutes, and that's with 4-5 miles of construction on the Interstate.

I'd never make in a town like Seattle/Houston/Dallas that has obscene traffic.

I would literally have a heart attack and a stroke at the same time while ramming people with my car.

[StereoInstaller1]

Snow.

3" here is complete paralysis.

6" and grocery stores, banks and government offices shut down.

Last time we had 5" of snow it got so bad (thousands stuck/stranded, horrible mess) it has been decided that we are going to use salt on the roads.

Rarely is snow even a seek on the ground here.

The terrain make the snow unbelievably bad. Once upon a time I lived live in Flint, Michigan, so I know real snow.