But I went to high school in a Portland suburb and went to college here.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
I just wanted to move out of Portland to do something.
I went through high school, but I didn't graduate.
My dad never graduated high school. He was a printing salesman. We lived in a two-bedroom, one-bath house in St. Louis Park, Minnesota. We weren't rich - but we felt secure.
When I was still in high school I knew I wanted to live in California.
I wanted to go to Portland because it's a really good book town.
I went to high school in Stockton, CA.
I lived in Portland for almost 20 years, and that's where my eldest daughter went to college. I missed the sunshine. I grew up in L.A.
We came to Portland because there was a good alternative public school. Friends who lived there told me about it, and my son loved it. I left his dad and went to work slinging hash in a breakfast diner and working nights tending bar in a biker tavern.
I went to college in Vermont, and then stayed in the East Coast.
I didn't want to go to college. I wanted to move to Los Angeles right out of high school.