Luke Skywanker
2024-06-01T04:22:50.000Z
So today I visited both the RR diner from Twin Peaks and The Brick pub from Northern Exposure and I think that's deserves some kind of achievement award.
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Luke Skywanker
2024-06-01T04:24:39.000Z
I've been to North Bend many times, as well as the RR, and that was just a coffee stop, unplanned
Luke Skywanker
2024-06-01T04:25:08.000Z
The real trip was further east, to Roslyn, where unlike Twin Peaks they actually filmed Northern Exposure
Luke Skywanker
2024-06-01T04:25:25.000Z
bizarrely it looks pretty much exactly like it did in the show
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Luke Skywanker
2024-06-01T04:25:36.000Z
and was super charming in its own right
Mυrder Mυғғιɴ
2024-06-01T05:27:52.000Z
Aaahhh i watched Northern Exposure so hardcore in the day. Happy to see you at the radio station. Chris in the Morning was my fav.
Luke Skywanker
2024-06-01T05:30:44.000Z
magicom: so I've been hearing about it my whole life but never had access until recently
Luke Skywanker
2024-06-01T05:30:57.000Z
and it's definitely hit maybe top 5?
Luke Skywanker
2024-06-01T05:31:12.000Z
it's so good, and so progressive, and so wholesome but adult
Luke Skywanker
2024-06-01T05:31:39.000Z
and I live 1 1/2 hours away from where it was filmed!! so it was really fun to visit
Luke Skywanker
2024-06-01T05:32:31.000Z
Also I... kinda wanna to move here
Luke Skywanker
2024-06-01T05:33:01.000Z
but I think that might be my general ennui talking
Mυrder Mυғғιɴ
2024-06-01T05:33:06.000Z
Omg you get to watch it for the first time?? I haven’t seen it in ages i’m glad it holds up. I remember it being all those things.
Luke Skywanker
2024-06-01T05:33:31.000Z
Oh my god dude
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2024-06-01T05:33:38.000Z
oh heeyyyy welcome to my side of the mountains!
Mυrder Mυғғιɴ
2024-06-01T05:33:44.000Z
Who doesn’t want to live in a quaint village where you can be quirky!
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2024-06-01T05:34:02.000Z
Roslyn SPECIFICALLY keeps stuff looking like the show
Luke Skywanker
2024-06-01T05:34:06.000Z
Oh my god, okay
Luke Skywanker
2024-06-01T05:34:19.000Z
magicom: I have always wanted to watch it
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2024-06-01T05:34:29.000Z
however let me tell you that the people in Roslyn 100% do not want anyone to move there and they will tell you that TO YOUR FACE
Luke Skywanker
2024-06-01T05:35:00.000Z
But I've never been able to until amazon, and it's even better than I expected it to be. It's woker. It's more adult (while being fucked up and silly). It's everything to me.
Luke Skywanker
2024-06-01T05:35:08.000Z
mistakesweremade: Ok I have been wondering this
Luke Skywanker
2024-06-01T05:35:18.000Z
And I tried to feel some folks out today but with little success
Mυrder Mυғғιɴ
2024-06-01T05:35:37.000Z
Luke Skywanker
2024-06-01T05:35:44.000Z
Because I was in several shops and the historical museum
Luke Skywanker
2024-06-01T05:36:08.000Z
and I was like "ok you keep telling me this cool stuff to come to. Would it be ok for me to come to it?
Luke Skywanker
2024-06-01T05:36:17.000Z
and they're like blank stare obvioulsy
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2024-06-01T05:36:43.000Z
there are a lot of transplants there already and they'll give you one story! But the amount of bitterness and resentment to "206ers" from people who've lived here more than one generation is a constant undercurrent to the community outreach work that I do
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2024-06-01T05:37:08.000Z
check out the FB page "What's Up Roslyn" for a better sense of the vibe
Luke Skywanker
2024-06-01T05:37:18.000Z
mistakesweremade: To be fair. One lady I spoke to mentioned Seattle transplants making a stink of the "but we should have a Trader Joe's" variety
Luke Skywanker
2024-06-01T05:37:44.000Z
Totally fair
Luke Skywanker
2024-06-01T05:37:56.000Z
HOnestly I've gotten that vibe from North Bend
Luke Skywanker
2024-06-01T05:38:04.000Z
Which is way closer to Seattle
Luke Skywanker
2024-06-01T05:39:20.000Z
But the thing is... I want to move to Roslyn, Or North Bend, Or w/e, precisely because it's not wherever I came from. And it's a pity we can't figure these things out. Don't move to a place you want to be the place you came from?
Luke Skywanker
2024-06-01T05:39:23.000Z
How is that hard.
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2024-06-01T05:40:40.000Z
Roslyn does have legitimate concerns and ongoing beef about the lack of a grocery store (the nearest is in Cle Elum, and it's THE MOST EXPENSIVE SAFEWAY IN THE STATE because of its position in the I-90 rec corridor) but they for sure do not want a Trader Joes
Luke Skywanker
2024-06-01T05:41:36.000Z
mistakesweremade: The other... okay this is like, galaxy brain mode so I don't think there's an answer from anyone, let alone you. But. Where do I belong when I come from a long line of transplants and disaffected hippies?
Luke Skywanker
2024-06-01T05:41:58.000Z
mistakesweremade: Honestly I am hundo P on board with this opinion
Luke Skywanker
2024-06-01T05:42:59.000Z
On purpose I visited the local grocer and found it well stocked and extremely cognizant of local priorities.
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2024-06-01T05:43:31.000Z
so like...speaking as a military brat, I've gotten a general pass from the locals because I'm from a service family. So they don't hold my lack of local-ness against me! And also I have an AUDIBLY ITALIAN last name, which aligns nicely with one of the remnant immigrant miner ethnic groups. There's definitely a contingent of old hippies, but--
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2024-06-01T05:44:17.000Z
--it feels like folks are less cool with that group since the explosion of 'van life' types, if that makes sense?
Luke Skywanker
2024-06-01T05:44:44.000Z
mistakesweremade: oh totally
Luke Skywanker
2024-06-01T05:45:57.000Z
I was at the historical society museum today, which was super ethnic and all that. But the volunteer was... someone with Roslyn roots, who was also a van lyfe hippie who settled here maybe 15 years ago
Luke Skywanker
2024-06-01T05:46:01.000Z
So she's probably fine
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2024-06-01T05:46:04.000Z
the community's mid-massive-battle against a huge developer that wants to put in an RV park/monufactured home complex, because they don't want to end up a parking lot for Seattle's giant campers. It's like the one development plan I've ever seen 100% of a community oppose!
Luke Skywanker
2024-06-01T05:46:25.000Z
But she mentioned it becoming a Seattle bedroom community WHICH IS INSANE
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2024-06-01T05:46:29.000Z
yeah exactly, the cutoff for vanlifers was pre-seattle-explosion (so maybe 20 years ago)
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2024-06-01T05:46:32.000Z
YEAH
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2024-06-01T05:46:33.000Z
IT'S WILD
Luke Skywanker
2024-06-01T05:46:39.000Z
because i drove there and back today and i'm fuckhausted
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2024-06-01T05:46:58.000Z
it's gotten a lot more intense since Covid, because telework has become more accessible across industries, but there are people who legit vanpool every damn day
Luke Skywanker
2024-06-01T05:47:02.000Z
AT THE SAME TIME
Luke Skywanker
2024-06-01T05:47:15.000Z
what do i do with my life babe I'm tired and I'm good people
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2024-06-01T05:47:30.000Z
(I also went back and forth to Seattle today because of the Greenway Spring Breakfast and I fully took a nap afterwards)
Luke Skywanker
2024-06-01T05:47:39.000Z
No that's fair
Luke Skywanker
2024-06-01T05:47:52.000Z
also, side note, it's nutso we haven't met up for brekkie or coffie etc
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2024-06-01T05:47:53.000Z
I'd probably suggest starting down in Ellensburg first, because it's a little more accepting of change/turnover/churn, what with the college
StupidSexyV⚠der
2024-06-01T05:47:54.000Z
oooph that's hard
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2024-06-01T05:47:58.000Z
also SLIGHTLY more housing available
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2024-06-01T05:48:13.000Z
I KNOW I pointed at this plurk like "but that's here!!"
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2024-06-01T05:48:57.000Z
also it's a bit cheaper than Roslyn, which often charges Seattle-like rents because they know they can
Luke Skywanker
2024-06-01T05:49:09.000Z
What do you mean?
Luke Skywanker
2024-06-01T05:49:28.000Z
Oh you mean Ellensburg?
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2024-06-01T05:49:32.000Z
yeah!
Luke Skywanker
2024-06-01T05:50:03.000Z
Oh gotcha! Yeah I am slightly flippant because I haven't yet started looking at moving.
Luke Skywanker
2024-06-01T05:50:12.000Z
But I appreciate the tip
Luke Skywanker
2024-06-01T05:50:47.000Z
My rental sitch at the mo is good. But I am ... pondering my future.
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2024-06-01T05:50:53.000Z
if you aim for between college quarters, you can snipe some decent rentals as students come and go. Unfortunately Roslyn rental costs are priced for Seattle paychecks :/
Luke Skywanker
2024-06-01T05:51:00.000Z
And small towns have an attraction
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2024-06-01T05:51:11.000Z
they do, I fucking love it here
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2024-06-01T05:51:29.000Z
and I'm plenty aware that there's no stopping the local population growth
Luke Skywanker
2024-06-01T05:51:37.000Z
But yeah I have no real life budget
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2024-06-01T05:52:00.000Z
stick your head in the sand about it all you want, neighbors, the only limiting factor on growth here is WATER
Luke Skywanker
2024-06-01T05:52:08.000Z
Yeah. It's... the balance between, we can't alter that real life change, but it's happening
Luke Skywanker
2024-06-01T05:52:17.000Z
Yup
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2024-06-01T05:53:40.000Z
this place is really in the throes of those growth pains and it's simultaneously fascinating and upsetting. Nowhere else has solved the problem, so everywhere is making it up as they go!
Luke Skywanker
2024-06-01T05:54:54.000Z
I feel this in my bones
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