>Eastern Oregon is basically a different state When I was regularly doing business in PDX, one of the things that struck me was how few people had any idea tha

>Eastern Oregon is basically a different state When I was regularly doing business in PDX, one of the things that struck me was how few people had any idea that there was any part of the state east of Bend. You'd be having this conversation and it turned into some kind of parody or comedy sketch where people really seemed to believe that the earth just sort of ended at The Dalles. I mean that's really far east!!!!. I recall talking to one guy who was a tech exec that had lived in PDX for decades and I tried to describe where I lived, IE: just get on I-84 and keep going east... you would have thought I was an alien, as he clearly had no idea there was anything on I-84 east of Troutdale. And that's the gap here... two culturally, economically, completely different peoples. She flies with her own wings...