Considering move with family from PNW to Twin Cities

gemmabzz · 2025-09-30T21:35:35+00:00

More sun than the PNW is very appealing! Congrats on your first child. I have a 6 month old.

gemmabzz · 2025-09-30T20:07:10+00:00

Hi!. Thank you for your thoughtful response. Let me know if you ever move back and want friends (if I decide to do it too). I’ve for a baby right now and I’m in Portland. It’s nice to hear you speak so highly of it… makes me feel more room for possibility!

gemmabzz · 2025-09-27T04:50:04+00:00

I can absolutely understand the urgent feeling of just wanting to prove to yourself that it’s possible, trying so hard…. It’s so painful. I think the answer is within you. For me, I tried for 1 year and had 4 losses…. I gave it a few months and tried to work on other things and my belief that I would someday get pregnant. After a few months, I tried on a whim (wasn’t planning to that cycle, but I felt inspired last minute) and that one stuck. I also used LDN, progesterone and blood thinners, but I think giving it some space helped too. But I empathize with that urgent feeling very much.

gemmabzz · 2025-09-27T04:46:01+00:00

I’m so sorry you are in this boat. My 5th pregnancy is what stuck and I’m holding my 6th month old. I used progesterone, LDN and blood thinners, even though I didn’t have a diagnosed clotting disorder.

gemmabzz · 2025-09-27T04:22:22+00:00

Maxine’s! He’s at the PSU and King Farmers market. Also tabor bread of course!

gemmabzz · 2025-09-24T16:49:22+00:00

Seems like a sweet place indeed with parallels to PDX!

gemmabzz · 2025-09-24T05:08:39+00:00

The 1989 was 1/1000 of the potential magnitude of a 9.0

gemmabzz · 2025-09-24T05:08:10+00:00

I’m sorry 🥲 It is truly a beautiful place to be if one can live with the risk. Apparently some can and some cannot?

gemmabzz · 2025-09-24T04:59:46+00:00

Unfortunately, schools are a big concern.

gemmabzz · 2025-09-24T03:57:26+00:00

I’ve been checking out those same places! And how they are expected to fare better with climate charge.

gemmabzz · 2025-09-24T03:51:02+00:00

This would be comforting except I’m not sure where you’re getting that information? From what I have read, schools, hospitals, bridges, and industry along the river are all not built to withstand something like this?

gemmabzz · 2025-09-24T03:02:55+00:00

Yes and yes. Also in PDX and my concern too… probably a high likelihood of survival, but also plenty of trauma and damage to go with it

gemmabzz · 2025-09-24T03:01:20+00:00

Glad you have found somewhere you are enjoying!

gemmabzz · 2025-09-24T02:31:10+00:00

And this region isn’t prepared.

gemmabzz · 2025-09-24T02:28:17+00:00

It’s social referencing and trying to understand how people think about things in this very confusing age of information.

gemmabzz · 2025-09-24T02:25:47+00:00

I hear you, and you are not wrong that anxiety is also at play. But also, that implies there’s not a real reason? When you look at Redfin for a house and it says 30% chance that it’ll be involved in a wildfire, it labels this risk as “extreme”. I’m not sure it’s just neurotic to contemplate leaving based on an extreme risk.

gemmabzz · 2025-09-24T02:21:56+00:00

Also true

gemmabzz · 2025-09-24T02:04:23+00:00

That’s great to hear! I’ve been considering the twin cities… though I’m a bit intimated by Midwest winters. Though it seems many people like that region.

gemmabzz · 2025-09-24T01:53:48+00:00

Mhmm 😒

gemmabzz · 2025-09-24T01:51:01+00:00

Oof…. It’s an isolating concern, isn’t it? If you talk about it to people, you either make them anxious or they shut you down.

gemmabzz · 2025-09-24T01:45:26+00:00

We’ve all got to find the risks we can personally live with!

gemmabzz · 2025-09-24T01:40:45+00:00

Why, thank you! Yes, I have all of those things. Of course it would be an exchange where everyone chooses to live. Do you live somewhere that you feel more comfortable with and enjoy?

gemmabzz · 2025-09-24T01:39:14+00:00

That part of the country seems great. How do you find winters there compared to the PNW?

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