Dang, I’ve been screwing up links lately.
Here is the map. You have a scroll down a bit to see it.
Jodi thanks so much for that post, its really good info and will help me out a whole lot.
Will do!
Hey cool, I’m moving to Seattle as well in September to start grad school.
Wishing you luck and joy in your new home.
[movie villain]Ha ha ha ha ha[/movie villain] November ‘the worst’?
We wanted to be there for the start of the bad weather…you sayin we’re getting there early or late?
The weather is not going to be bad, not the way that you’re expecting it or used to it.
Many other places get hard snows or hard rains or cold snaps or intense dramatic bad weather. There really is none of that. It may snow once, maybe twice. It may rain for a few days. It’ll probably mist a lot. Most likely, nothing big will happen.
We’re farther north than Buffalo is - as short as their days get in the winter, ours are even shorter. (Summer makes up for it…) It’s very possible for you to have leave home in the dark and come back home in the dark.
And even during the day, it isn’t really light because the sun goes away in November. It comes back every year and other places in the country report seeing it, so it’s probably ok during those 6 or so months - but it doesn’t seem to have any interest in breaking through the cloud cover. So even during the times when it’s technically “day,” it isn’t bright. It isn’t a crisp, clear, cold day (like I’ve seen in upstate NY or New England). It’s gray and it’s dark.
And that’s a lot of dark. And the first day of dark isn’t bad - nor is the first week of dark - but the fourth month of dark tends to drive some transplants insane, especially when they find out there’s another three months to go.
I think there is food in Portland. What there isn’t, for the most part, is employment steady enough to keep you eating it.
So you’re saying that the sunlamp is more than just a suggestion…its a necessity. Good to know. I haven’t been up there durring the winter months so it is a hard concept to wrap my head around. I have been to Alaska in late September, and I assume it is a similar idea, but I was only there for a week. I’ll get to work on findng a sunlamp for us.
Beware of Doug
Yeah, we really liked Portland a lot, but while a nice place to visit…we didn’t want to live there. Plus I am a theater person by trade, and there are just many fewer theater opportunities in Portland than in Seattle, that was the real clincher for me.
Yesssss. And what also kills are those cold, rainy days in June when it occurs to you the eveybody else has been having summer for a couple of months already…
We’ll be neighbors. I live just north of the U district.
Having worked 12 hour nights forever, I can tell you that Dark is long.
In December, it gets dark at about 4:30pm then light at 7:00am. Except for sunrise, I would go for weeks never seeing daylight, since I slept during the day.