I love the weather there. I’d rather be depressed in the cold forest than to have my skin scorched. I don’t want to deal with fascists though and it seems to be a constant battle between them and antifa in Portland. How’s rent and walkability there?

  • Ezze [hy/hym,they/them]
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    3 years ago

    I don't have the highest hopes for the PNW region being spared some of the nastier effects of climate change. I just left the area a few months ago when the whole place was blanketed with smoke from California and then later British Columbia wildfires. From where I was in northern Idaho, no one cared about minimizing COVID transmission. It caused one of the largest outbreaks globally with not nearly enough hospital capacity to account for it. Last summer, there was a heat dome that killed Over a thousand people across Washington, Idaho, Oregon, and Canada.

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2021_Western_North_America_heat_wave