Mon Feb 19, 2007, 09:09am
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Location: Northern VA
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Originally Posted by Mark Padgett
Probably before most of you were born, I moved from the Chicago area here to the Portland area. Around here, the natives refer to any place in the US east of the Cascade mountains as "back east". When I lived in Chicago, we never considered ourselves in the "east", but the "midwest". I still think it's weird every time I hear that reference.
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You moved from Chicago to Portland in 1942?  I was born in 1943. 
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