Good Times Coming for Portland (2015, college, live)

[Larry Caldwell]

Judging by the number of educated people moving to Portland, it will have one of the top economies going over the next 25 years.

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/10/20/up...abt=0002&abg=0

[skiffrace]

Do we have enough Starbucks to provide jobs for all those 'young, educated people'?

Originally Posted by skiffrace

Do we have enough Starbucks to provide jobs for all those 'young, educated people'?

While amusing, the reality is that Portland is attracting decent jobs for educated people.

Urban Airship, Airbnb, Elemental, New Relic, Puppet Labs, and all the old stalwarts that are still here - Intel, Xerox, FEI, FLIR, Planar (seems to have found a market after years of obscurity).

No doubt some are moving here for the "where young people go to retire" vision of Portland. But there are also good jobs for people with the right skills - traditionally that's been hardware but increasingly there's a strong software/services presence here.

[VTHokieFan]

Good times for people making over $100,000 for sure. This article shows that the supply of labor isn't an issue for Portland, how is the demand side doing?

[AndyAMG]

another NYT article about Portland.....

Do we have enough Starbucks to provide jobs for all those 'young, educated people'?

ha ha, now come on.... There's Dutch Brothers, Black Rock, that other one... you know, plenty of jobs for liberal arts majors from NYC.

[someportlandian]

More gentrification for everyone!

[bler144]

I finally took the time to actually read the article and wasn't that impressed. It's the NYT filling space, essentially.

At best it's an extrapolation/guess-work based on trends from 2000-2012 that everyone already knew about, and Portlandia already parodied - the place where college educated 20-34 year-olds come to retire.

[Squidlo]

Do you have enough one way tickets for the under-educated locals that need to leave to make room for all the new cool people? The fact that this creates a buzz at all disturbs me. People need to come from elsewhere to "improve" Portland. If Portland is so broken it cant develop its own talent, what will happen when the migration slows or stops? Good luck riding that wave.

Wait, people are actually complaining that Portland is attractive to young, educated people? What kind of person gets miffed when a new company sets up shop and employees educated people in good jobs that pay well?

That's the sort of thinking I'd expect from the rabidly anti-growth towns in the state who do everything they can to ensure they keep people away and don't have thriving economies.

[urbanlife78]

Originally Posted by JasonF

Wait, people are actually complaining that Portland is attractive to young, educated people? What kind of person gets miffed when a new company sets up shop and employees educated people in good jobs that pay well?

That's the sort of thinking I'd expect from the rabidly anti-growth towns in the state who do everything they can to ensure they keep people away and don't have thriving economies.

I know, it makes no sense. I have no problem with educated people wanting to migrate to Portland for the lifestyle it has to offer. If they get a high paying job from it in the process, more power to them.