[learnfromstory]

Once I rented a car in Seattle one way to Vancouver. Apparently there is some shitburg nobody has ever heard of called Vancouver, WA but I was going to the more famous Canadian city. The flunkie at the counter booked the domestic trip and I drove to the proper Vancouver. When I got there they tried to charge me over $8000 in fees. I think there is no practical upper bound to what they'll try to charge you for such things.

[dang]

Please keep regional slurs off this site. Imagine if you were one of HN's readers in Vancouver WA and read this comment. Not nice, and quite unnecessary for your point. Ditto for "the flunkie at the counter". We don't need comments here that think they're that much better than other people.

[jjeaff]

..."nobody has ever heard of".

You shouldn't project your obliviousness on everyone else.

Vancouver, WA is a suburb of and part of the greater Portland area. Also referred to as the Portland / Vancouver metropolitan area.

It's completely understandable that the "flunkie" at the counter assumed someone leaving from the largest city in Washington would be be referring to the 4th largest city in Washington (Vancouver).

Sounds like the big fee was well deserved.

[Terretta]

So this is why so many shows supposedly set in Portland are filmed in Vancouver!

// Except it's not, they're filmed in the Canadian Vancouver anyway.

[jdeibele]

Not to mention that the one in Washington is the "original", founded 60 years before the one in British Columbia.

I will concede that some people in Portland call it "Vantucky" because it's trended more conservative.

https://www.ahundredmonkeys.com/a-tale-of-two-vancouvers/