I am putting my money where my mouth is (Portland: 2014, apartment)

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Originally Posted by pdwpdx

I'll probably do the same in a few years. I don't like the direction I see this city going in. Even though I have a reasonably good job right now, I don't look forward to an uphill battle against rising rents, more and more wealth, overpopulation, etc. I will likely go somewhere in the Midwest.

Another thing is they are always cutting transit and my favorite hangout places keep disappearing, or will disappear. Like the Belmont Bodega is history, and soon Chopsticks will be too. This isn't the city I moved to anymore. Places like the Trio Club represent the "new Portland", the new sterile California-wannabe Portland.

[pdwpdx]

Originally Posted by valsteele

Portland is a much nicer city if you can afford to live close-in in a nice area and shop at all the hippie boutiques all the time. It's not a very nice city if you live on or east of 82nd Avenue and are freezing because you can't afford to heat your room, and you never go in your living room because it's always frigid.

Even if you can afford to live close in, you are increasingly surrounded by snobby yuppie-types. It's not the kind of vibe/environment I'm looking for.

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Originally Posted by pdwpdx

Even if you can afford to live close in, you are increasingly surrounded by snobby yuppie-types. It's not the kind of vibe/environment I'm looking for.

All of the people I work with are so snotty aside from my bosses and a couple others. It's not my scene at all.

[SyraBrian]

I don't know where you could live with only 1500 in your pocket. Syracuse is dying and that little won't even get you far here.

And how does Portland have no opportunity? Oregon's unemployment rate dipped below the national average for the first time in 19 years, and Portland's been leading the way.

As far as the crime goes, have you checked the murder rates east of the Mississippi? Syracuse, at less than a quarter of the population, will probably have more murders than Portland.

[urbanlife78]

Good luck with where you end up moving to next. Quiting your job and giving yourself 30 days to decide is a risky move for anyone to do, so I hope it all works out for you.

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Originally Posted by SyraBrian

I don't know where you could live with only 1500 in your pocket. Syracuse is dying and that little won't even get you far here.

And how does Portland have no opportunity? Oregon's unemployment rate dipped below the national average for the first time in 19 years, and Portland's been leading the way.

As far as the crime goes, have you checked the murder rates east of the Mississippi? Syracuse, at less than a quarter of the population, will probably have more murders than Portland.

Well I do get $750 a month as well from the government for disability, so I'm not totally screwed if I run out of money. I'm not really concerned so much about murder as about crime rates in general. I'm more worried about break ins, rapes, stuff like that.

[SyraBrian]

Originally Posted by valsteele

Well I do get $750 a month as well from the government for disability, so I'm not totally screwed if I run out of money. I'm not really concerned so much about murder as about crime rates in general. I'm more worried about break ins, rapes, stuff like that.

So you're just looking for a cheaper but safer place to live. That's a conundrum.

Also, according to a March 11th, 2015 press release, Trimet has announced that they're expanding, not reducing, service.

If you're on disability, you should probably look at metros with the highest rates of people on disability, because they're probably there for the reasons you want to be.

[Leisesturm]

Originally Posted by valsteele

Well I do get $750 a month as well from the government for disability, so I'm not totally screwed if I run out of money. I'm not really concerned so much about murder as about crime rates in general. I'm more worried about break ins, rapes, stuff like that.

Where in Portland are break-in's (home invasions, not automobile), rapes (NOT date or domestic), or other violent crimes (stuff like that) a problem?? Kid, it doesn't get better than Portland, believe it. Another poster said "Canada" and s/he would be right. If you aren't going to Canada (and they wouldn't have you anyway) you can find cheaper places in the U.S. than Portland, places with nicer weather than Portland, but not better places than Portland...you think you are freezing now? When the grid goes down the entire rest of the country will be trying to get to Oregon and/or Washington. You had the inside track. Oh well.

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Originally Posted by Leisesturm

Where in Portland are break-in's (home invasions, not automobile), rapes (NOT date or domestic), or other violent crimes (stuff like that) a problem?? Kid, it doesn't get better than Portland, believe it. Another poster said "Canada" and s/he would be right. If you aren't going to Canada (and they wouldn't have you anyway) you can find cheaper places in the U.S. than Portland, places with nicer weather than Portland, but not better places than Portland...you think you are freezing now? When the grid goes down the entire rest of the country will be trying to get to Oregon and/or Washington. You had the inside track. Oh well.

Portland is not for everyone.

[Pyroninja42]

Originally Posted by raggedjim

Why not Canada?

https://youtu.be/OOL3QEe8aXs?t=21s