to be honest, that's kind of the seattle experience in a nutshell - when Scarly and I have strayed from seattle and tacoma, we've ran into some scary situations. >_>
@Zelli@allegras1stmate@Chel Same for Oregon, really. There are a few islands of sanity in Oregon, Portland, Eugene, Salem to some degree, Ashland, stuff like that. The rest is uber angry red, and though they aren't in any danger of breaking through, they froth at the gates periodically, and got that moronic anti same sex marriage law passed a while back (which has thankfully been repealed thanks to the US supreme court).
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