So, what should I do now?

[Iason Ouabache]

I'd say 2 with 3 as a backup if I were you.

IAWTC. Seattle sounds more promising but the islands sound like more fun.

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5.  Punish them.

IAWTC


And then I think you should stay.

We need more people like you and less of the asswads you've been having to deal with.

Drive THEM away to another city!

[East Coast Hustle]

stay in portland!

if anything, because WE SHOULD ALL MOVE TO PORTLAND.


if the rats start jumping off early, it makes boarding questionable.

I concur!

Been debating that myself as I have family and friends up there, and I'm almost done with school.

I hate to rain on you guys' parades, but moving here without having a job waiting for me was probably the dumbest thing I've ever done, or at least the only thing I've ever done that I really and truly regret doing. DO NOT MOVE TO PORTLAND IF YOU DON'T ALREADY HAVE A JOB HERE.

ALSO, THIS TOWN, WHILE NICE ENOUGH, IS NOWHERE NEAR BEING CLOSE TO BEING EVEN ONE-TENTH AS COOL AS IT THINKS IT IS.

[Mesozoic Mister Nigel]

stay in portland!

if anything, because WE SHOULD ALL MOVE TO PORTLAND.


if the rats start jumping off early, it makes boarding questionable.

I concur!

Been debating that myself as I have family and friends up there, and I'm almost done with school.

I hate to rain on you guys' parades, but moving here without having a job waiting for me was probably the dumbest thing I've ever done, or at least the only thing I've ever done that I really and truly regret doing. DO NOT MOVE TO PORTLAND IF YOU DON'T ALREADY HAVE A JOB HERE.

ALSO, THIS TOWN, WHILE NICE ENOUGH, IS NOWHERE NEAR BEING CLOSE TO BEING EVEN ONE-TENTH AS COOL AS IT THINKS IT IS.

It's actually a thousand times cooler than it thinks it is, but it doesn't know. It's cooler in a much darker way than it knows. This town is life and death. I know; I was born here, and I intend to die here.

[Jasper]

You could always start a doomsday cult.

[East Coast Hustle]

This town was that kind of cool, and open about it, back in the early 90's.

it wasn't ashamed to be sleazier than Seattle (in all the good ways) and secretly as tough as Oakland.

Now, for the most part, the only people here that are worth a shit (aside from you and the 6 other people who are actually FROM here) are the immigrants. I like the outer SE neighborhoods that are just east of where I am, the dynamic potential of 82nd Ave on a friday night, the desperate upward mobility of Parkrose, the vital hedonism of Foster-Powell. Everything else is a facade of sterility, gentrification, and unthinking lockstep ecofascism. And that's not a slam against people who love the environment, it's a slam against the kinds of idiots who think that they're saving the world by going vegetarian because meat has too heavy an environmental impact, as they sit there and eat their tofu stir-fry that came from the take-out joint in a container made from corn products. I see very little sincerity in the high-minded idealism that coats this town like a miasma of smugness. Most of it is just back-slapping and another form of following the crowd.

And that's the thing. People from Portland used to be cool, in the classical sense of the word. And they still are, it's just that with very few exceptions everyone I've met or known who is FROM Portland lives in Oregon City, or Gresham, or Vantucky.

Seattle, for all of it's faults, NEVER let itself get completely over-run by the Cali-tards and the midwest hipster-refugees to the degree that Portland has.

That said, I'm paid up here until the first of February and RCHGF has a good job, so I'm not gonna make a hasty move when I have a month and a half in which to fuck with the objects of my displeasure.

[Jasper]

...does freelance math tutor count toward a job?

[Mesozoic Mister Nigel]

This town was that kind of cool, and open about it, back in the early 90's.

it wasn't ashamed to be sleazier than Seattle (in all the good ways) and secretly as tough as Oakland.

Now, for the most part, the only people here that are worth a shit (aside from you and the 6 other people who are actually FROM here) are the immigrants. I like the outer SE neighborhoods that are just east of where I am, the dynamic potential of 82nd Ave on a friday night, the desperate upward mobility of Parkrose, the vital hedonism of Foster-Powell. Everything else is a facade of sterility, gentrification, and unthinking lockstep ecofascism. And that's not a slam against people who love the environment, it's a slam against the kinds of idiots who think that they're saving the world by going vegetarian because meat has too heavy an environmental impact, as they sit there and eat their tofu stir-fry that came from the take-out joint in a container made from corn products. I see very little sincerity in the high-minded idealism that coats this town like a miasma of smugness. Most of it is just back-slapping and another form of following the crowd.

And that's the thing. People from Portland used to be cool, in the classical sense of the word. And they still are, it's just that with very few exceptions everyone I've met or known who is FROM Portland lives in Oregon City, or Gresham, or Vantucky.

Seattle, for all of it's faults, NEVER let itself get completely over-run by the Cali-tards and the midwest hipster-refugees to the degree that Portland has.

That said, I'm paid up here until the first of February and RCHGF has a good job, so I'm not gonna make a hasty move when I have a month and a half in which to fuck with the objects of my displeasure.

The people here are still cool, they're just depressed and lying low.

[Mesozoic Mister Nigel]

...does freelance math tutor count toward a job?

I have a friend who has been doing just that for years.

[Jasper]

We could start a doomsday MATH cult. Not only do we enlighten with dread prophecy, we teach precalculus as well!

[East Coast Hustle]

This town was that kind of cool, and open about it, back in the early 90's.

it wasn't ashamed to be sleazier than Seattle (in all the good ways) and secretly as tough as Oakland.

Now, for the most part, the only people here that are worth a shit (aside from you and the 6 other people who are actually FROM here) are the immigrants. I like the outer SE neighborhoods that are just east of where I am, the dynamic potential of 82nd Ave on a friday night, the desperate upward mobility of Parkrose, the vital hedonism of Foster-Powell. Everything else is a facade of sterility, gentrification, and unthinking lockstep ecofascism. And that's not a slam against people who love the environment, it's a slam against the kinds of idiots who think that they're saving the world by going vegetarian because meat has too heavy an environmental impact, as they sit there and eat their tofu stir-fry that came from the take-out joint in a container made from corn products. I see very little sincerity in the high-minded idealism that coats this town like a miasma of smugness. Most of it is just back-slapping and another form of following the crowd.

And that's the thing. People from Portland used to be cool, in the classical sense of the word. And they still are, it's just that with very few exceptions everyone I've met or known who is FROM Portland lives in Oregon City, or Gresham, or Vantucky.

Seattle, for all of it's faults, NEVER let itself get completely over-run by the Cali-tards and the midwest hipster-refugees to the degree that Portland has.

That said, I'm paid up here until the first of February and RCHGF has a good job, so I'm not gonna make a hasty move when I have a month and a half in which to fuck with the objects of my displeasure.

The people here are still cool, they're just depressed and lying low.

Steve McQueen would never get depressed and/or lay low, and Steve McQueen is exactly what I meant by "the classical sense of cool".

[The Good Reverend Roger]

This town was that kind of cool, and open about it, back in the early 90's.

it wasn't ashamed to be sleazier than Seattle (in all the good ways) and secretly as tough as Oakland.

Now, for the most part, the only people here that are worth a shit (aside from you and the 6 other people who are actually FROM here) are the immigrants. I like the outer SE neighborhoods that are just east of where I am, the dynamic potential of 82nd Ave on a friday night, the desperate upward mobility of Parkrose, the vital hedonism of Foster-Powell. Everything else is a facade of sterility, gentrification, and unthinking lockstep ecofascism. And that's not a slam against people who love the environment, it's a slam against the kinds of idiots who think that they're saving the world by going vegetarian because meat has too heavy an environmental impact, as they sit there and eat their tofu stir-fry that came from the take-out joint in a container made from corn products. I see very little sincerity in the high-minded idealism that coats this town like a miasma of smugness. Most of it is just back-slapping and another form of following the crowd.

And that's the thing. People from Portland used to be cool, in the classical sense of the word. And they still are, it's just that with very few exceptions everyone I've met or known who is FROM Portland lives in Oregon City, or Gresham, or Vantucky.

Seattle, for all of it's faults, NEVER let itself get completely over-run by the Cali-tards and the midwest hipster-refugees to the degree that Portland has.

That said, I'm paid up here until the first of February and RCHGF has a good job, so I'm not gonna make a hasty move when I have a month and a half in which to fuck with the objects of my displeasure.

The people here are still cool, they're just depressed and lying low.

Steve McQueen would never get depressed and/or lay low, and Steve McQueen is exactly what I meant by "the classical sense of cool".

In a bright red Porsche on Sunset I saw Steve McQueen
I guess he's just about the coolest guy I've ever seen
And for you and me that speeding car is how it's going to be
I see no brakes just open road and lots of gasoline

Oh we heard Richard Nixon say, welcome to the USA
The common sense I sometimes lack
Has opened up a seismic crack
We've fallen in and I can't pull back

Pale kids come to play
And we heard Richard Nixon say, I've gotta go but you can stay

[Elder Iptuous]

how is it that the advice puppy has not made an appearance in this thread?
in fact, why was this question not posed to advise puppy in the first place?

[Triple Zero]

[rygD]

I say 2 or 4.  I would not sell your stuff off unless you have absolutely no other way to survive.  I also think 1 is an option.  My personal feeling, though, is that you might be on the wrong coast.  

If I were to go with option 3, I'd be selling my stuff not for the money, but because shipping all of my stuff to St. Thomas would be a waste of time and money and I wouldn't need most of it there anyway.

Also, West Coast > East Coast, even if parts of the West Coast have turned out to suck balls. I mean, I'd rather stay here and rot in Portland than live somewhere like New Jersey or Virginia.

As long as you are selling stuff you don't need and won't miss then keep that as an option (so basically I have done nothing to narrow it down).  I have lost much in my many moves, some of which cannot be replaced, and I have a friend who recently sold off many of her possessions, and she seems upset over the decision, but she needed the money.

Perhaps I should give the West Coast another shot then.  I actually enjoyed most aspects of Virginia Beach when I lived there, but that was years ago.  What part of VA were you in?