Oregon Audiophiles...

The 3-bedroom tract house my parents bought in Cupertino California (now home to Apple and ebay) in 1959 for $12,000 has risen in value to.....a lot. The house across the street sold last year for $1.4 million. Too bad my dad sold ours in '66!

Gaston here.

bdp24 ...

Has the prices of home really gone up ... or has the value of money gone down?

To the Oregonians posting here: I lived in the Salem area for a year, then retreated back to California. Question: How do you keep your audio gear from rusting? 

I discovered why the state capital of Oregon is Salem. Its because people in Oregon don't drive their cars ... they salem.  

Salem being Oregon's capitol is like Sacramento being California's.

Thought I commented on here before, guess not or I can’t seem to find it.

I don’t really know any other Audiophiles at all. Not a single stereo store or activity what so ever out here. I’m in the Columbia Gorge, a little over an hour from Portland going East.

I get a little skeptical about meeting other audiophiles though. When I’d hang out in the stores in Portland I came across some the weirdest, oddest people around. Like borderline autistic or something. Maybe that’s just Portland though ha. However the shop owners were audiophiles and always pretty dang cool.

Cindy and Gary from the Audio Gallery in Lake Oswego is where I was first introduced to Hi end Stereo. A shame about Gary and the store closing. And would regularly stop into Echo Audio. Sometimes Freds sound of Music. Seen a few Audiophile stores come and go in the Portland Area.