State hate crime? Calif. transplants react to graffiti incident

[yuiyoshida]

After experiencing an audacious bout of California hatred in the form of spray painted missives, one couple is determined not to let it ruin their outlook on Portland.

Jessica Faraday and her fiance Preston Page awoke Sunday to find their car and home covered in graffiti, not-so-subtly telling the Southern California couple to leave town.

While it's easy to chalk up this story as a burning (or spray painted) example of Oregon's supposed longstanding dislike of California transplants, Faraday said that up until this incident, she has felt their adopted hometown was welcoming towards them.

"We have such a great community and such great neighbors," Faraday said in an interview with SFGATE. "This was one person who obviously is uneducated as to what is really happening in Portland. I can understand that there is some tension with people surrounding the housing market, the job market, things like that, but if you look at it, we have very large corporations that have multiple employees and they bring in employees from other places ... and that's what happened in our case."

Page, 32, and Faraday, 34, moved to Oregon back in February, when Page's job with Portland-based Adidas forced the couple to relocate. The tagging incident is, in the couple's opinion, more related to a road rage incident from Saturday, with the message fixating on one thing: the California license plates on Faraday's car.

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http://www.sfgate.com/news/article/Portland-Oregon-California-couple-graffiti-11264605.php

[JI7]

1. no, Road Rage