fairview village area? (Troutdale, Wood Village: apartments, crime, townhouses)

[karelise]

Does anyone know anything about the Fairview Village area? Not sure where it is or what it's like - just trying to check out a house there.

thanks!

[fejman]

Fairview Village is a community that was designed to be like an inner-city neighborhood. While many of the goals were met (single family houses alongside apartments and townhouses) for the most part the experiment failed. The little shopping district (Village Street) had some cute shops until the fire department shut them down for code violations (they weren't built to the commercial fire code). So what you wind up with is a cute little sub-division with a Kohls, Fred Meyer, Lowes, Carls Jr., Starbucks, etc across the street in the Oregon version of a strip mall.

It's a pretty little neighborhood with a huge park, a large 'nature path' and little pocket parks. No two houses are the same, there are very few 'snoot houses', all the houses have 9' ceilings on the first floor, there's a meandering creek that runs thru many back yards, lots of trees, etc. I love my home but the neighborhood isn't nearly as friendly as someplace closer in.

[tytus]

Fairview sucks. Schools suck. Public transportation sucks. Crime is high, as is nearby Wood Village. I grew up in and went to school in Troutdale, which is very close. And many of my friends lived in Fairview. IMO it is a trashy area. You could do much better.