I came to visit friends in Portland for a few days. The very first night, I ran into an old ATL roomate that I lost contact with about 4 years ago, which was awesome. Now I have someone else to come visit.
I still think about moving out here, but I suppose it's safest to stick with the movie job in Atlanta.
Plus, I doubt they'd allow me to keep my rather large gun collection, certainly it would be harder and more expensive to expand it any.
I had a couple of bad experiences here a decade ago, but this time the city has shone on me. The people are still very guarded and unaccepting of non-locals, which is so different from the south that it borders on insulting...no, it actually IS insulting.If we're introduced by someone you consider a friend, and they consider me a friend the odds are better that good, that we'll eventually be friends. So just get over yourself and be friendly that's for minimum. If you came to the south to see friends and they didn't have room, you'd probably be offered housing by one of THEIR friends, hell, I keep a 2 bedroom, JUST so I can have friends in from out of town, and have often hosten friends of friends as well.
Conversely there have been 3 people with genuine hospitality. Realy nice evenings of conversation, enough to make me want to come back.
Whatever, I imagine that the winters would destroy me. I used to deal with them fine in Alaska, until I worked on the North Slope for a season. Theere was something to terrifying about the desolate cold there, that I've become very loathsome of cold, gray emptiness. I'm not a Cross Country skier, have only snowboarded a little, don't own a snow-machine(sled) and don't ice-fish, so I can see why so many people drink here in the winter, as a pastime
One more night, then I'm off to Denver. We'll see what happens there. Then back to SpecFX in ATL. can't wait.
I still think about moving out here, but I suppose it's safest to stick with the movie job in Atlanta.
Plus, I doubt they'd allow me to keep my rather large gun collection, certainly it would be harder and more expensive to expand it any.
I had a couple of bad experiences here a decade ago, but this time the city has shone on me. The people are still very guarded and unaccepting of non-locals, which is so different from the south that it borders on insulting...no, it actually IS insulting.If we're introduced by someone you consider a friend, and they consider me a friend the odds are better that good, that we'll eventually be friends. So just get over yourself and be friendly that's for minimum. If you came to the south to see friends and they didn't have room, you'd probably be offered housing by one of THEIR friends, hell, I keep a 2 bedroom, JUST so I can have friends in from out of town, and have often hosten friends of friends as well.
Conversely there have been 3 people with genuine hospitality. Realy nice evenings of conversation, enough to make me want to come back.
Whatever, I imagine that the winters would destroy me. I used to deal with them fine in Alaska, until I worked on the North Slope for a season. Theere was something to terrifying about the desolate cold there, that I've become very loathsome of cold, gray emptiness. I'm not a Cross Country skier, have only snowboarded a little, don't own a snow-machine(sled) and don't ice-fish, so I can see why so many people drink here in the winter, as a pastime
One more night, then I'm off to Denver. We'll see what happens there. Then back to SpecFX in ATL. can't wait.