i hear ya.  i have figured out I don't belong in eugene  - tough as still have a couple kids in school... we are looking to move.  we have been researching and researching for likely places to live.  eugene has no charm left.  it's as simple as that.  the whit party is like a well done nod to what eugene was 30 years ago  the rest?  nothing you can't find elsewhere and few places have a road system so screwed up and it's not the  maintenance of the roads , but the design and plan.  ----- dang