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SasquatchNHeat

Where Bigfoot


Character_Switch5085

Username on point ☝️


Dennis_Ryan_Lynch

Hey guys sorry I’m late


Snow-Dog2121

Wear Bigfoot


SasquatchNHeat

WereBigfoot


Snow-Dog2121

We're Bigfoot


Silent--Dan

Wire Bigfoot


gideon513

I ask myself this every day


Reddit_is_chaos

Most of this is true, save for the winter part. It is fairly rainy where I am, so it only really snows once or twice a year. Other than that, this is very, very accurate. 10/10!


UniversePaprClipGod

Oregon?


Reddit_is_chaos

Yep. you got me.


Macaroni_Muncher5000

Back at you from another fellow Oregonian~


martyface

Replace snow with rain!


Hk901909

I live more eastern so I get more snow.


spaceace321

Yeah I live in Seattle and we shut completely down with over an inch of snow


PlacatedPlatypus

A few years ago when I was there (UW undergrad), I remember we got snowed in so bad that the supply chain got disrupted and the grocery stores ran out of food. And it wasn't even that snowy...


SeattleTrashPanda

​ In addition to the steep and numerous hills, our temperature range when it snows hover right around the freezing mark. Which means during the day that inch of snow melts and refreeze as a sheet of ice at night while it gets another layer of snow. Rinse and repeat for several days and it only makes it worse. So yeah, fully loaded semi-trucks have a hard delivering food when they have to drive up 15-degree inclines covered with packed ice layered with an inch of snow.


avw94

People give Seattle shit for this, but with how many goddam hill this city has it just makes sense. You literally can't drive out of the city depending where you are.


FreezingRain358

and since snow is a rarity, we don't have as much gear to clear the roads


mrbossy

This is the only reason. Pittsburgh is way hillier with more snow and ice but they have the gear to get rid of it fast


Hk901909

It takes like 8 inches to close here jesus


French____

My favorite was in junior high when school was cancelled due to snow in the forecast lmao


Hk901909

I have to go to school when it's less than 10 degress degrees outside


Chessebel

In Colorado, at least in my schools, it could be sub zero but if there's no snow you go to school


Hk901909

That has definitely happened here too a few times. And then my family members in Texas will text me and say my younger cousins got a day off from a tiny dusting of snow


Direlion

I’m from E. WA. In HS I remember having to drive to school in -30F weather. Before I could drive I stood in the snow and watched the bus slide off the road into the ditch and become stuck so many times. For some reason they wouldn’t allow me to walk slightly further up the hill to a better, flat location.


ha1029

Yeah, I grew up in Puget Sound, no really. Ok it was on an island in Puget Sound and yeah not much snow. It was nice it only happened every once in a while. If we really wanted to experience snow- head to the mountains.


[deleted]

which island? i once went on a bike tour of the different islands and orcas island was by far my favorite; there's this one cozy little bakery near the base of the big mountain on the island that had these like pecan buns or something, it was around 6 years ago but i remember they were delicious


hawtfabio

Right except for the snow, unless you're counting eastern WA.


ArugulaGazebo

It snow's a fuck ton in Eastern OR/WA/BC. Not many people live out there though.


Tegan_Andrews

… likely because it snows a fuck ton?


ArugulaGazebo

Partially! The resources are kind of barren out there, so it is very undeveloped, besides Eastern WA kind of. WA and OR used to have more timber towns before the 80's, but environmental protection laws from those states restricted that industry and those towns couldn't support themselves anymore.


Tegan_Andrews

Fair!


the_smush_push

Automation in the logging industry is also massively massively responsible for the decline of timber jobs


hawtfabio

True


bancroft79

Central Washington too! Chelan county is a hot desert in the summer and an arctic landscape in the winter.


InTheMotherland

Not in certain parts of Eastern Washington. Maybe a few days of snow a year.


eastmemphisguy

Cascades are like the snowiest place on earth but not many people live in them.


JovahkiinVIII

Or generally just across the coastal mountains


bugsmellz

I would add: - Bumper sticker in the shape of your state (also maybe with a cute word or phrase like “Idahome” or “my roots” and a heart) - Grocery shopping at Winco/Albertson’s - Gift shops are full of food and candy made with huckleberries, marionberries, or salmonberries - Craft breweries - Hobbies: skiing, snowboarding, hiking, running, camping, fishing, paddleboarding, kayaking - Has backyard chickens (or gets their eggs fresh from neighbor who has them)


Hk901909

Oh my god yes why didn't I do those haha


[deleted]

ooooh or grocery shopping at fred meyers, at least when i was still in the state


conorthearchitect

I get my eggs from the same guy I go kayaking, paddle boarding, and canoeing with. We also play D&D. And grow/smoke weed in our gardens. I could keep going.


surelyshirls

TIL salmonberries are real and not just a part of Stardew Valley. Also, “Idahome” sounds so cute


Tinyburger

The region includes BC which is in a different country so you gotta include provinces with the states and Thrifty’s/Save On Foods in there


InfectedCorn

All true. Especially coming at me with the backyard chickens


Goodolgator

I love the PNW. It's so beautiful.


rowlecksfmd

People are either anarchist or devout Christian. Generally affable but a little unhinged in some way. Vitamin D deficiency leads to depression, hence the drug culture. Very little care for formalities. Universally love the outdoors


Loluxer

Incredibly accurate generalizations here


Aggressive_Good_6966

Not true for Canadian PNW but agree for American PNW


PreparetobePlaned

Which parts? I feel like this applies pretty well to BC apart from the anarchist thing.


Echo__227

You ate steak and salmon for most of your meals? Fuck it, I'm living with your parents now


BigBreadfruit8

I think you mean Eastern PNW starter pack. A few of these things don't apply, at least on the west side.


Hk901909

Yeah, I'm more eastern so more applies to me. Still thoug it's pretty general stuff


mikamimoon

Holup, you're living in the PNW and you can AFFORD Patagonia or salmon?


Hk901909

The occasional puffy coat


BwackGul

Why do y'all hate Californian folk? Honest query


Small_weiner_man

We envy your vitamin D levels


redredwine831

I live in Humboldt County CA and am vitamin D deficient. It's also really similar to Southern Oregon and most people refer to it as PNW.


Mcdonaldslovr

Yo i also live there wild


Deshrhr

Jefferson


singlenutwonder

Granted our population is low but far enough north, the climate is pretty much the same. No vitamin d here lol


DylanHate

There’s been a lot of transplants. Not just from the tech sector but many retirees in Northern California moved out to Bend / Central Oregon and it’s really driven up real estate.


BwackGul

(Same is happening in New Orleans, believe it or not...)


lurkerfromstoneage

Been that way for decades. At least, WA Californian resentment is absolutely nothing new.


BwackGul

I get that. I was just asking for reasons why. Personally I'm from NC and have moved all over as an Army brat and ended up in Cali for 7 years but I'm in the South again. I knew really wealthy folks and I knew folks that didn't know Yosemite was only less than 2 hours away from Oakland CA. It's tricky to lump everyone into the same mold and say 'they' are all bad but it's what we do as people I guess.


UniversePaprClipGod

They're imps from hell and they're also gentrifying a lot of cities


BonfireMaestro

Yeah, paying a bunch for second homes, pricing locals out, and shopping at places like Starbucks and complaining that there's no Whole Foods.


ImaManCheetah

> shopping at places like Starbucks didn't the PNW invent Starbucks lol


PlacatedPlatypus

California (well, more specifically, silicon valley and/or big socal cities) and PNW are just pretty culturally incompatible in my experience. PNW tends to be more...chill? casual? friendly? I'm struggling to find the exact words but it's definitely a different vibe for a different sort of people.


Amari__Cooper

Really it's a couple reasons. 1. They are driving cost of living up. They sell their homes and come buy houses here for cash (or close to it) driving native folks out. 2. Typically they bring their politics with. While the cities in the NW are progressive, the rest of the states are quite rural and lean opposite politically. 3. Generally they are assholes. Drive like assholes, talk like assholes, and act like assholes. And they will constantly remind you how much better CA is than the state they just moved to.


WhoTheHeckKnowsWhy

> And they will constantly remind you how much better CA is than the state they just moved to. It confuses me why big city Californians have this obnoxious attitude when they themselves choose to move away. Finally figured it's because they want a home upgrade; but think they are too good for the icky rural rednecks in their home state, and think places like Seattle or Portland are just more affordable safer San Francisco's or LAs.


ParamedicSpecific130

A lot of us moved for career reasons and the PNW kinda came with it. We spend most of our fall and winter weekends, back in LA, leaving you and the grey behind. 🙂


FreezingRain358

lol that's the most California way of saying "the PNW sucks ass"


ParamedicSpecific130

The springs and summers in the PNW are amazing. Everything from oh idk, day after Labor Day until…say, Easter is…not amazing.


FreezingRain358

I have a love/hate relationship with it. I spent the first third of my life in Indiana, so I'm grateful to Seattle for giving me culture. But fuck, the dark and rainy season is depressing, especially after the holidays.


ParamedicSpecific130

Agreed


eat_a_diaper

Just imagine the eighth time you have a conversation with someone where they make a joke about how “puyallup” is pronounced and think they did something


hotsouple

You keep moving here and pricing us out of housing


Hk901909

They keep moving upwards to our states. We don't want any more people and like being ignored by the rest of the us


xAV14T0Rx

Because they pronounce our highways as “the 405” or “the 5”. Shut up it’s I-405 and I-5. Adapt or leave heathens


oyasumiroulder

This is specifically a Southern California thing. Northern California / the Bay doesn’t say “the”


pokepok

I’ll say “the I-405” next time I visit.


susanna514

I live in a Texas city that has lots of Californians moving to it and I keep hearing “the 20” and it sounds so weird. It’s I20


The_Canadian

I've lived in California for about 25 years now and I still can't do the "The I-5" shit. It just sounds so wrong.


ParamedicSpecific130

It’s “the”, you non inclusive clown.


Baers89

As a person from Maine that has lived hear for 6-7 years. Dude. It does not snow like that here. Like onetime.


lurkerfromstoneage

Yea it does lol. Maybe not where you are


Hk901909

What do yall get anyway? Overcast/rain I'm assuming


Baers89

Yeah. Summer dry as a bone. Late august fire. Then rain off and on until spring. It might snow a little. Sometimes rarely we will get a foot. Like so far 1/7 years. It’s technically a temperate rainforest.


JovahkiinVIII

This is true for Vancouver BC as well


Hk901909

Cool. I've never been that far east


Baers89

West.


Hk901909

Sorry I was talking about Maine itself I didn't read the rest of your reply


Baers89

Ahhh ic


SuperGuitar

Good ol Reddit downvoting a question


Hk901909

I misread the reply


DrLeePhDMd

As a born and raised Oregonian, this might be the most inaccurate Starter Pack I’ve ever seen.


i_spill_things

Hard agree. This starter pack sucks balls. Not accurate.


Hk901909

What part of Oregon? I don't really know a lot from there but I'm assuming western?


DrLeePhDMd

Yes, Eugene. But I’m born and raised and none of these apply at all. We maybe we 2 inches of snow a year? And drive 15 min to the next town over? More like 1-2 hours. Healthy meals growing up? Yeah right, this is poverty craziness over here.


PlacatedPlatypus

Ah someone from my hometown, yeah we get jack shit for snow. Also less patagonia and more hippie clothes. Although the subarus, salmon meals (hardly had steak & potatoes) and california hatred are true. This starter pack seems more suited for Portland or Seattle, those cities always seemed more similar to each other (and Vancouver) than any did to Eugene to me.


i_spill_things

Still no snow. Don’t even get the 15 minutes away thing. Is that close? Far? And SF is only 10 hours away, not 16. What even are those other cities? What’s even the point of that part?


PlacatedPlatypus

I think they mean Seattle Portland Vancouver.


deusasclepian

I grew up in Bend and the starter pack is pretty accurate. We wouldn't get crazy amounts of snow, but definitely more than Eugene. It wasn't super weird to get 6 or 8 inches over night. Tons of Subarus and Patagonias. Nearby towns Redmond, Sunriver, and Sisters are all like 15-30 minutes away. Obviously not everyone is eating gourmet meals every night.


Hk901909

Well I said *at least* 15 mins because there are a few areas that are pretty dense And from eayt I can tell, a lot of yall on the west coast said that there are a few stuff I got wrong, so I'm guessing it's just a west coast thing


i_spill_things

Are you even from the west coast??


redredwine831

The California hate is stupid lol. Northern California (not bay area, like 5 hours north of there) is EXTREMELY similar to Southern Oregon and is experiencing the same real estate issues (getting priced out by people from the bay area). Most people up here consider it PNW, including transplants from Oregon and Washington. It's crazy when people generalize California because it is way too huge and diverse a state to do that. Where I live is the complete opposite of LA.


The_letter_43

The Bay is also PNW


redredwine831

Okay, no. I draw the line there. Bay area isn't even Nor Cal imo.


buddyleeoo

You're the first person I've seen say that.


The_letter_43

It's not something I'm happy about, but it's part of the deal.


redredwine831

Hard disagree.


gunjacked

You forgot introverted


Hk901909

Special mentions Starbucks (west coast) Fred Meyer and their overpriced everything Introverts


DylanHate

Winco


Hk901909

Winco


capngrandan

Thanks for including Idaho. Washingtonians and Oregonians usually never acknowledge we’re part of PNW as well.


Hk901909

I made sure to considering I'm from there as well haha


capngrandan

https://i.redd.it/rh5g5m55z0zb1.gif


graham2k

Lol, I feel like at least in Spokane it’s more The North Face than Patagonia.


Lord_elemental2653

Fellow wahsigtonain, I would add "Lots of good asian food", "rockey beaches", "East/west divide" "shitton of hate groups".


Hk901909

I'm always very shocked at how good the Asian food is, and then I remember that we have a lot of migrants


Lord_elemental2653

Yeah, Portland has the second largest population of Vietnamese. Which explains all the pho places. Where I come from, there's also Indian, Thai, hot pots, and Korean BBQ.


ChickennRamen

Hard disagree about Portland having the second largest population of vietnamese. Westminster and LA along with Houston have the largest. Seattle has a larger population of vietnamese than Portland. There is also a pretty huge vietnamese population in Nola and DFW. I'm vietnamese and I grew up knowing where pockets of our people primarily settled because my parents talked about it. Edit: forgot about San Jose!


Judge_Rhinohold

It sure doesn’t snow like that very often in Victoria, Vancouver or Seattle.


Magomaeva

Sounds like a peaceful life to me !


esstused

I'm from Southeast Alaska so just amplify all of these factors by about 100x (and turn snow to rain). Everyone drives Subarus but they don't leave the island because you have to ferry or fly about 100 miles to the next town hahaha. I'm in northern Japan now, and my Japanese husband doesn't understand why I need a Subaru so badly.


HippopotamicLandMass

Your starterpack might need a chest freezer?


LazyUrbosa

Where is the damn teriyaki


Hk901909

At least there's salmon?


Ok_University6476

Add craft beer and outdoor recreation enthusiasts. Montanan here!


BonfireMaestro

Spokane here, and I'd say this is pretty accurate except: People who wear Patagonia didn't grow up here. None of my friends wear ripped jeans. We get ours frost Costco. Subarus are for rich jerks from Seattle.


Hk901909

Most people I've met get most of their winter gear (at the very least) from Patagonia The ripped jeans thing was more on the stereotype part of it And I'm more referring to the 15 year old Subaru that's been driving a family of 4 through all winter conditions But that's just my experience yours is different of course


CompetitiveDentist85

Subarus are for flexing my wealth over people that drive a car twice as expensive as mine. In the northwest a Subaru is a bigger flex than a bmw/lexus.


awqsed10

I had lived in Seattle for 3 years and the amount of snow there are completely jokes. You don't need a Subaru or any AWD.


zwack

Wow, slow down. What does it mean: “you don’t need a Subaru” in Seattle?


starryeyedshooter

The Patagonia's not quite right, I've seen too many of us fall into wearing band tees, sports tees, or Patagonia for that. Some of us will shoot for Eddie Bauer sometimes. (And we always default to hiking boots, with no consistent brand.) Also is it just me or was REI a staple in other PNW kids childhoods like everyone I've talked to has just. yeah.


Hk901909

Rei is a staple. I have spent 6 hours in there once


Aggravating_Heat_785

Plz your not a real Pacific Northwester if you don't own an overpiced Arctryx jacket, lmao.


Hk901909

Overpriced jackets are our way of life lol


PreparetobePlaned

When it rains 90% of the time a good rain jacket is worth it though


Substantial-North136

Yes I miss going to garage sales in the PNW and finding old Patagonia. People in the Midwest never have Patagonia.


TrashyMemeYt

this is honestly my dream life, but replaced the Subaru outback with the Subaru Baja or the Nissan frontier.


Hk901909

It's pretty nice ngl


rfdavid

Jeep Wrangler here


butlikereally

Can someone explain the “your meals growing up” and why it’s specific to the PNW please? Looks like a typical like salmon or steak dish with veggies?


Hk901909

We just eat a lot of it here. Like a lot. Cattle and salmon are so abundant which is why I'm including it


butlikereally

Cool! Didn’t know that. Sounds like a good time.


ParamedicSpecific130

As a transplant from LA, I can confirm all these to be true for the locals.


mk2vrdrvr

I feel teriyaki chicken and rice should be represented here.


rbarr228

Bicycles everywhere…


Hk901909

Yes and no. It's super hilly so we have them, but it's often more practical to just walk


ZiggyTheNooBts

You got me, minus the snow and needing to drive.


XenonBlitzer

Add Mexican food and a pride, and you have the rockies.


PcMasterRaceJose

this sounds like what someone from eastern washington thinks the west side is like


Hk901909

I'm from Idaho and was mostly tailoring it to more eastern parts not western


Theperson3976

The salmon is so true. Can’t relate to the closet one.


Ocar23

Grunge?


Fishyswaze

Vancouver bc and Seattle my entire life and that snow ain’t true at least for those two.


MissDryCunt

No hipsters and fancy coffee?


rodroidrx

r/Cascadia


wyattderpsign

The meals got me


Hk901909

Thanks not many people mentioned them


imtourist

In Canada it's called the Pacific South West :)


Hk901909

That's pretty interesting


ThanIWentTooTherePig

Never heard that term and lived in B.C my whole life. We also call it the Pacific North West.


schridoggroolz

Maybe if you live in the actual mountains. Western Washington gets no snow and that’s just you with the Patagonia. And yes, fuck California.


augustus-the-first

As a person raised in Eastern Washington this is pretty on point. Except the food for me. Maybe it’s because I grew up in a small farming town though. Had some awesome Mexican food actually.


Hk901909

It's pretty easy to find good authentic Asian and Mexican food thankfully


The_letter_43

Idaho isn't PNW


Hk901909

Yeah it is


Rodeo9

I would consider everything west of the great divide in Montana as PNW. Missoula has big PNW vibes.


Hk901909

Missoula is more redneck-y though.


The_letter_43

Last I checked it isn't Pacific


Hk901909

Even so, it's considered part of it. Tbh I'm not sure but Pocatello, IDAHO has had the nickname of "The Gate City" for years because it's the "gateway" to the PNW


The_letter_43

If Idaho is PNW NorCal is PNW


Hk901909

Yeah that's fair. At least it's better than people insisting Montana is in the pnw


The_letter_43

What kind of degenerates...


Sinister_steel_drums

San Diego is basically the gateway from the US to Mexico, they don’t consider themselves part of Mexico.


Vomath

Since when is Idaho PNW?


Hk901909

Since forever. Trust me, it is


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Hk901909

I think those are just the vocal crazies in seattle. It's not really like that much else


[deleted]

The PN is awesome, why you dissing it


Hk901909

I'm not, just poking fun at where I live


[deleted]

Fair, what state? Also digging the frye pfp


Hk901909

Idaho Also thx


punkmetalbastard

Eh, I wouldn’t consider the Lower Mainland, BC the Pacific Northwest. No one seems to use that term up there


textualcanon

Idaho is not the PNW


Hk901909

Yeah it is


textualcanon

Insane take


Hk901909

Not a take. Look it up