r/oregon • u/Andromeda321 • 6d ago

Discussion/Opinion What is your controversial Oregon opinion?

Here’s mine: people in this state have an irrational hatred of umbrellas. There’s plenty of rains where they’re appropriate and useful to use (like Tuesday walking home for example, I stayed much more dry than I would have), but people lose their minds and get strangely upset if you use one because “no real Oregonian uses an umbrella!” They’re also not as hard to use or flimsy as people insist to me- I have my €5 umbrella I bought living in the Netherlands a decade ago, and it works fine.

Seriously, for a state that loves to do its own thing, using an umbrella is the ultimate counter-culture move. People get upset about others using them and it’s so weird.

Anyway, what’s yours?

554 Upvotes

87% Upvoted

808 comments sorted by

View all comments

38

u/MightBeDownstairs 6d ago

Red counties are a drain

-3

u/NC_Ion 6d ago

It's hard to tell when everything goes to Portland.........

10

u/MightBeDownstairs 6d ago edited 5d ago

Imagine that. A city where most tax revenue comes from for the state.

Edit: user said — hard to tell when most of it goes to Portland.

6

u/Hindu_Wardrobe 5d ago

nah, they just blocked you. I can see the comment and account just fine.

1

u/FishermansPorch 5d ago

I don't know what this means exactly that "everything goes to Portland." Can you elaborate? About half of the state lives in the Portland metro, and it's really the state’s only city, so it does make sense to a degree. I don't know if we spend less per capita in other areas though.

-3

u/machismo_eels 6d ago

False. https://osupress.oregonstate.edu/book/toward-one-oregon

6

u/YoungSalt 6d ago

Sorry, I’m not going to buy your professor’s book to try to understand your point. If you can’t make your own case then your opinion is not of value.

2

u/Fallingdamage 6d ago

Someone else here said that they think Oregonians are rude.

10

u/YoungSalt 6d ago

Yet another person made what I thought was a really insightful point: Oregonians are soft and cannot process even the slightest directness towards their shortcomings.