Is Skyline a small tight knit community?
One thing that might be of interest to non-locals about Portland is that the Skyline area is not a town in itself. I have seen posts from non-locals that refer to it as a small town and erroneously believe it could be a
'tight community where everyone knows each another'. Even on one of the Levi radio shows they talked about the school as being in a small town where people would likely know one another.
This isn't the case.
As we locals know, the area of the school and where the Horman's live is not a town and it does not have a bunch of local stores, gas stations, etc where community folks get to know each other in that small town kind of way.
Rather, if you want to do any serious shopping, you have to travel. If you are not bussed in and actually live in the SKyline school vicinity (as Kyron once did and his sister, SM, and Dad still do), you have a lot of choices as to what direction to take in order to shop. When I say shopping, I mean places like Fred Meyer, Safeway, Target, hardware stores, bookstores, and the like.
- If you prefer a small town area, you can drive north on Cornelius Pass then HWY 30 to shop in Scappoose. But this is not the closest option.
- If you want a more hip area but also a nice country drive west on Cornelius Pass to get there, you can shop in Rock Creek.
- If you prefer Hillsboro, you can travel south on Cornelius Pass and then dog leg over to 185th/Tanasbourne; likewise, there is a slightly different route to Beaverton (the area the Hormans previously resided)
- You can also choose to just take Skyline/Burnside or HWY 30/Yeon straight into downtown Portland for Whole Foods and Powell's.
- Sauvie Island is just as close as the above options, but it certainly doesn't have shopping choices beyond a convenience store, plant nursery, and fresh fruit markets.
To shop or dine out, you do have to drive in some direction for some distance, and once you decide where, you are most definitely leaving the Skyline area and choosing a different 'community'. Skyline itself is not a small town tight community where everyone shops together and knows one another.
To me, this rules out theories that some have postulated that Kyron could have been seen over and over by a regular (pedophile who works at a local grocery store for example) and then later abducted by such person.
While this is obvious to the locals, it is not necessarily obvious to everyone.