RikidyBones
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every mid sized metro area is going thru the same things. i've been in Charlotte for 20 years, and when i moved here, it was exactly how you described Portland. clean down town area, traffic wasn't bad etc....
and as more and more people move out of the huge metro areas and more and more companies move headquarters or larger facilities in to those areas for lower costs/tax advantages, populations rises, infrastructure must change, and you go thru those growing pains.
good news, property values are soaring right now, so i'm happy about that.![]()
If anybody can skate on this, it's Urban Meyer. And if any school is willing to let him, it's OSU. Water finds its own level.
I'm looking to get back to Jacksonville. the city size fits us as does the climate.My wife and I are feeling a yearning to move back to the East Coast, and are heading that way soon to check out some places (and to play some golf in Pawley's Island). We both grew up in Atlanta and have family there, but I won't move back there. We are checking out some places in NC (Asheville, Raleigh, Greenville, etc..) as we haven't been to those places in 20 years. I lived in Raleigh for a couple of years in the late 90's and traffic was bad then. but I like Raleigh a lot and they have great jobs there in my field. Asheville has the size, climate and the cool vibe we are looking for but housing prices are pretty high. But Asheville is within driving distance to Neyland for games. Not so sure about Greenville, it wasn't considered a great place when I lived in Atlanta back in the 90's.
I wonder how big of an impact this will have on the title IX investigation at the end of the day. If you're under a microscope for it and still sweep these issues under a rug, you deserve to be bankrupt.
My daughter and her family live in Portland. They live in a really nice area and have a weekend home at Cannon Beach which they use and really get their monies worth.We have a lot of people moving up here from California, but other places also (Texas, Nevada, Montana). Most be the legal Pot. But housing and overall cost of living is becoming insane. Portland's city government is a mess, downtown is a nasty and they keep building apartment and condo's everywhere. They are basically driving out families (on purpose) and turning Portland into a smaller version of San Francisco. It's sad really, I loved Portland when I move here. It was clean, people were very nice, almost no traffic and it had a easy going vibe. It's none of those things anymore.
Greenville is pretty cool. some friends of ours had a wedding down there a couple years ago, and we did the pre wedding stuff downtown. i thought it was nice. nicer than i originally thought it was. but it's growing a lot, and seems like I85 is under construction from Norcross to Charlotte these days.My wife and I are feeling a yearning to move back to the East Coast, and are heading that way soon to check out some places (and to play some golf in Pawley's Island). We both grew up in Atlanta and have family there, but I won't move back there. We are checking out some places in NC (Asheville, Raleigh, Greenville, etc..) as we haven't been to those places in 20 years. I lived in Raleigh for a couple of years in the late 90's and traffic was bad then. but I like Raleigh a lot and they have great jobs there in my field. Asheville has the size, climate and the cool vibe we are looking for but housing prices are pretty high. But Asheville is within driving distance to Neyland for games. Not so sure about Greenville, it wasn't considered a great place when I lived in Atlanta back in the 90's.
Saban and Meyer are the only two coaches that could survive this IMO. If OSU does end up firing him, I think he'll be hired again in short order by someone. All he does is win.If anybody can skate on this, it's Urban Meyer. And if any school is willing to let him, it's OSU. Water finds its own level.
Cannon Beach is utopia.My daughter and her family live in Portland. They live in a really nice area and have a weekend home at Cannon Beach which they use and really get their monies worth.
Your traffic is indeed a challenge and the fact that across the river you find yourself in Washington state, they tell me the separate governments aren't even remotely close to addressing the traffic issues. Parts of downtown are pretty nice but other parts are, as you say, dirty. More homeless than we're accustomed to, but we've seen that problem pretty much everywhere we've traveled on the West Coast. It baffles me how that problem appears to be completely ignored...we've witnessed it in San Francisco, Portland, Seattle and even when we were in Victoria, British Columbia, last year.
From what we've seen, the liberalism has completely run amok...but I'm flirting too closely with politics.
My daughter and her family live in Portland. They live in a really nice area and have a weekend home at Cannon Beach which they use and really get their monies worth.
Your traffic is indeed a challenge and the fact that across the river you find yourself in Washington state, they tell me the separate governments aren't even remotely close to addressing the traffic issues. Parts of downtown are pretty nice but other parts are, as you say, dirty. More homeless than we're accustomed to, but we've seen that problem pretty much everywhere we've traveled on the West Coast. It baffles me how that problem appears to be completely ignored...we've witnessed it in San Francisco, Portland, Seattle and even when we were in Victoria, British Columbia, last year.
From what we've seen, the liberalism has completely run amok...but I'm flirting too closely with politics.
The fact that he reported it, if true, makes it worse. So he reported but didn't discipline Smith or fire him until mcmurphy broke the story 3 years later means that he was still negligent in this. If it was enough to fire Smith now, then he should have been fired in 2015. So urb claiming he reported it then per policy means his report and the schools policy was basically a farce and both should be punished.It's probably going to come down to legal hair-splitting. Did he report as required under OSU's policy and was he-- or his wife--legally required to do anything more? I'm sure they have a team of legal experts scrutinizing every word, action and innuendo, while looking for plausible ways to keep him-- assuming he wants to be kept, instead of being paid a hefty sum to "retire."
havent been there since 2010. Lot of cool little pocket beach towns between there and florence.We used to go the Cannon Beach a lot, but traffic getting there is insane now and it's pretty run over. There are some pretty cool, smaller beaches that haven't been run over yet. Manzanita is one of my favorites, but it's starting to get run over too.
