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First time I saw "PNW" It probably means Pacific Northwest.
by lars_francke 2y ago
First time I saw "PNW"
It probably means Pacific Northwest.
- Aachen 2y agoWhat even is to the north west of the pacific ocean, do they mean Korea/Japan?
- elpocko 2y agoWestern North America, bounded by the Pacific Ocean.
- chasd00 2y agoBut doesn’t include California.
- Der_Einzige 2y agoYes it fking does. The Bay Area and coastal Northern California is practically identical to Portland climate wise. Check a map of the PNW, nor cal is usually included.
- chasd00 2y agoNo it fucking does not. No one refers to California as the PNW they refer to California as California.
- Der_Einzige 2y ago[flagged]
- brudgers 2y agoCrescent City is the only town in California that I would consider part of the Pacific Northwest with a Walmart. [1] Which is to say the technical definition doesn’t conform with most people’s experience because relatively few people know of Crescent City. [1] Eurika is in Humboldt County and Humboldt County is not the PNW, it is Humboldt County.
- thijson 2y agoI never understood why people say SF is NorCal. It's only halfway up the coast. I know of Crescent City because I drove up 101 once, and we stopped there. We were amazed at the size of the redwoods around there. Each time we drove around a switchback our headlights illuminated another one which we would collectively gasp at. Later on we got a traffic ticket on our way to Grants Pass. It was worth it though, as Crater Lake was similarly impressive.
- ajmurmann 2y agoIt's because there is no major city north of the larger SF area. It's weird though
- Der_Einzige 2y agoAlso because the micro-climate of the penninsula, SF proper, and a decent bit around the bay is almost identical to the rest of the PNW. The culture is also nearly identical.
- thijson 2y agoI went to a bar in SF that had some graffiti all over it. One of the graffiti said "Itching to get out of Portland". I asked inside about it, and they said it's because at the time Portland had a bedbug infestation.
- throawayonthe 2y agoit's an informal area of North America, roughly the states of Oregon and Washington + Canadian province of British Columbia on the pacific coast, and north relative to... the earlier european settlements, i guess?
- tdeck 2y agoIt also includes southern Alaska apparently.
- hnarn 2y ago> to the north west of the pacific ocean that's simply not what the phrase "pacific northwest" means. it's "the northwest" (of the U.S. in this case), modified by the word "pacific".
- chasd00 2y agoAs far as HN goes, it really just means near Seattle or Portland WA.
- ajmurmann 2y agoIt goes even into Idahoe and into Vancouver, BC.
- pavlov 2y agoCuriously there’s someone else in this same comment thread also using PNW without explaining the abbreviation. It’s giving me Baader-Meinhof phenomenon vibes. Anyway, for the benefit of non-Americans, the “PNW” is basically Seattle and Portland, and it’s mostly like California but with winters.
- Der_Einzige 2y agoIt’s the SF Bay Area to British Columbia, and every once in awhile, the PNW gets reminded about what its other names would be: I.e cascadia or ecotopia.
- specproc 2y agoSF?