Anyone thinking of leaving Portland????/ (Klamath Falls: house, neighborhood, movies)

[David Kennedy]

Portland was great but its changing in a hurry...panhandlers on every street corner.
S.E. Portland looks like a war zone with the burnt-out crack houses...and it is very Expensive.
Look outside Portland...If I were to live in Oregon again, I would live in The Dalles or Hood River...or Seaside....sorry.

[nancy thereader]

Portland was great but its changing in a hurry...panhandlers on every street corner.
S.E. Portland looks like a war zone with the burnt-out crack houses...and it is very Expensive.
Look outside Portland...If I were to live in Oregon again, I would live in The Dalles or Hood River...or Seaside....sorry.

Is this true, Portlanders?

[oldtintype]

Of course not!

[tiffela74]

use the google map someone else put up on another thread...see how many panhandlers/burnt out crack houses you see.....
also, im sure YouTube would have some stuff as well.
Portland does have its share of homeless and those on the corners w/their signs asking for $ or work, and a few bad neighborhoods, but its far from the majority.
sigh...the doom and gloomers are back at it. lol besides, i like the rather contracting statement of the burnt out crack houses and how very expensive it all is.....hummmmmmmm
dont fret too much Nancy, some people just thrive on the negative parts.
Tiffany

[Littlexred]

I'm actually moving to Portland because where I live costs too much!!! Try living in Southern California if you think Portland is hard. A one bedroom apartment in my town goes for about a thousand. Maybe a houndred cheaper if you want to live in the slums where even the cops won't go to at night. It's insane. I love the beach, I LOVE the weather, and I love the food, but I can't afford it here anymore and was thinking of moving up towards Portland

[tiffela74]

Have you thought about the Oregon coastline? Its a heck of a lot wetter than your Southern California beaches, but a lot cheaper to live along.
Tiffany

[nancy thereader]

and, no fires.

[luv the outdoors]

Speaking of fires. I can't wait to leave, they have been a couple of miles from me all week. Hard to breathe, looking forward to a place that is green.

[gnab gib]

Originally Posted by Littlexred

I'm actually moving to Portland because where I live costs too much!!! Try living in Southern California if you think Portland is hard. A one bedroom apartment in my town goes for about a thousand. Maybe a houndred cheaper if you want to live in the slums where even the cops won't go to at night. It's insane. I love the beach, I LOVE the weather, and I love the food, but I can't afford it here anymore and was thinking of moving up towards Portland

Yeah, it's all about perspective. I can appreciate the complaints about cost of living and such, but I can guarantee you that it's always worse somewhere else. My wife and I moved to the metro D.C. area a few years ago (I took a job out here), and it's been bleeding us dry. We've fallen farther in debt, and the housing market is insane -- even the smallest, most modest houses out here go for $300-$400K.

We've run the cost-of-living calculator and found that while there are cheaper places out there than Portland, we can still live in the Portland area on about $35,000 less per year. Plus, I'm looking forward to the cool, rainy weather, and my wife is a big environmentalist. So we're certainly excited, and we're on track to move in the spring of '09. We're sure it's not perfect out there, but it's gotta be better than what we have now ... uptight ladder-climbers, horrible traffic pretty much around the clock, and astronomical real estate. No, thanks.

[PNW-type-gal]

I love the city of Portland, but I've been in the process of moving the last 6 months or so (building another house). I raised my family here, went to college and graduate school here, worked in high tech and other industries, spent a lot of time hiking in the nearby mountains and camping all over the state.

But the reasons I'm leaving have less to do with what's wrong with the city and more to do with my changing circumstances. I want to live in a smaller, quieter, less crowded place. I like visiting cities, but I don't really want to live in or really even near one any more. I want a LOT more sun, even if I have to put up with snow and cold to get it (I'd rather the snow in winter than the 100+ temps in summer or humidity). I don't want to see moss on the concrete on the SOUTH and WEST sides of the house anymore. I'm tired of city traffic, and I'm willing to live 30 miles outside a small town to get away from it.

But as cities go, there's nothing wrong with Portland compared to any other city of the same size. It's a lovely city and I plan to come back frequently, and stay downtown and eat at the great restaurants and spend hours wandering around Powell's. I like the feel of the city, I like the people, the downtown, the narrow neighborhood streets and trees and the many parks. I like zipping around on MAX and the Streetcar. I don't mind the downtown panhandlers who might ask for change, as I've never felt physically threatened or unsafe, not even over in Old Town. I like the loopy KEEP PORTLAND WEIRD bumperstickers and the pockets of greenies all over town. I like the Portland Art Museum which certainly isn't huge but it has a great cross-section of history in the art and great traveling exhibits. I love OMSI and our submarine. I love the microbrewpubs and the coffee houses.