^ says the snob. LO is full of snobs. Most of the parents I encounter in West Linn are no better, though. I have a couple of neighbors who are complete ass holes.
I caddied at the LO Country Club for a summer when I was about 14 and that was interesting to see the haves and have nots. I also lived on the lake for a summer and it was really nice. ABM is from LO.
Ditto. Although now it's not the friendly, sleeping little town of 7,000 it used to be. The 4-decades-long influx of unimaginative, self-absorbed and short-sighted Californians has obliterated most of the community's former Mayberry-like identity, and the push by developers to stack people like cordwood in the downtown core has accelerated the mutation.
???? Where does this come from?? When I live in the Metro area (many years ago) I live in LO a year then West Linn for about 14 years. Why this hate?
I live in West Linn. I grew up with this crowd. There's no hate in this heart (except for Peyton Manning, Dodgers and their fans, Lakers and their fans, and perhaps a few others, but I digress). I'd say my many years of experience living with and amongst them gives me a pretty good barometer. It's not East Coast snobby, not by any means. But LO and West Linn residents have a greater general sense of snobby-ness than many of the other areas around the Metro Area. I can't say this about everyone in those cities, but there are many. I mean, I get the same kind of feelings from my cousins that live in Laurelhurst and some of the more expensive pockets around the Metro area, but those areas are far smaller than LO and West Linn.
Are there any well-maintained, high property value areas with low crime that you feel are not snobby?
I can't help but agree here. I'd rather live in LO with its "snobs" then back in god damned St Johns, or Beaverton for that matter. But of course, I like nice things and clean places, and I definitely don't like people that don't respect what others have and the work it took to get it.
There wasn't much reason to go to Lake Oswego for people that don't live in the area. Never really hit up that area other than play tennis at Mountaingate on occasion. there was also some fish market we used to go back in the day out there.
I pooped once in LO. I think it was a Wendy's, I'm not sure. The light was out on the drive-thru menu sign I was leaning against...
A friend of mine used to live in an apartment complex in West Linn that had it's own indoor basketball court. I played there once and they told me not to come back because I played too physical. I guess my time growing up on the mean streets of SE Portland was too much for them. Fuckin' pussies.
It wasn't a knock. It was an observation. Obviously, the snobby-ness was far less of a concern to me than other things, as I chose to live in West Linn. I was simply surprised that someone felt LO wasn't snobby.
I think the "new money" types (who lived in the mcmansion neighborhoods) there brought the snobby vibe. The old rich money (i.e. lived near the lake, etc) seemed more chill.
Most of the "old money" is gone and given way to their offspring, which grew up with a heavy load of entitlement.
