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…damn, when the wind changed and you got a lungful of the mushroom plant, that was SOMETHING.

“Why do you talk so much shit about Salem as an Oregonian?” I don’t, I just accurately describe it. Eugene I talk shit about-

Portland isn't like Oregon. Oregon is a flat, dry, inhospitable region marked "Here be Nazis and Dragons" on all the maps. Portland is very wet and lacks Dragonsm

Mushroom ... plant?

Also, when people say shit like, "Well, it's Oregon", I like to point out that Oregon was literally founded as a "White's only state" via its constitution and a ton of black exclusion laws. It's "bastion of progressiveness" label is recent and still needs work outside the cities, much like WA.

The brutalist library, though!!

Yeah, this is WILD to see as an Oregonian (my entire adult life so far, and I'm past the half-century mark). The red/blue divide is often drawn between "rural" and "urban" Oregon and that's *not untrue*, but then there's Salem which is some weird third thing entirely ("dumpster fire" arguably).

Ive been in pnw awhile and rarely think of salem and more rarely visit, When i do I wonder "why is this place" cuz its so large and it never seems like anyone goes there or comes from there. now i know.

Friend is a volunteer with the Humane Society there. He's done a lot of running animals up to Portland for test that they hope to be doing locally soon.

Yeah I’ve had to point out that Salem is not exactly a liberal bastion, which gives me a ton of hope (also everybody saw what happened to The Dalles)

I missed the mushroom plant when I lived there doing Legislative internships. But then the big thing was sunchokes.

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Best roads in the state, though, courtesy of being the capitol. I swear they re-pave every other year, leaving the pot holes in the rest of the state to swallow ever more cows and mid-size sedans...

It’s actually gotten marginally less upsetting to spend time in in the last decade or so but it is still definitely not Portland.

As did I!

We moved a LOT but Salem got the majority of my time.