I am putting my money where my mouth is (Portland: high crime, landlord)

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I've decided to leave Portland for greener pastures. I will have about $1500 so it's a big gamble but I just need to get the hell out of here. I don't know where I'm going to go yet, but I am going to plan meticulously the next couple of weeks.

I quit my job and gave a 30 day notice to my landlord so I can't go back on it. I'm tired of freezing in my room, can't afford my heating anymore and it's still very cold, dealing with high crime and crackheads because I can't afford to live close-in, not being able to afford my own place, rude unfriendly people, and no opportunity.

Cya Portland! I tried to love it, and couldn't so I'm leaving it.

[VTHokieFan]

Originally Posted by valsteele

I've decided to leave Portland for greener pastures. I will have about $1500 so it's a big gamble but I just need to get the hell out of here. I don't know where I'm going to go yet, but I am going to plan meticulously the next couple of weeks.

I quit my job and gave a 30 day notice to my landlord so I can't go back on it. I'm tired of freezing in my room, can't afford my heating anymore and it's still very cold, dealing with high crime and crackheads because I can't afford to live close-in, not being able to afford my own place, rude unfriendly people, and no opportunity.

Cya Portland! I tried to love it, and couldn't so I'm leaving it.

I don't blame you. Portland is not worth the money it costs to live here. There are much better places to live and I wish you the best of luck in finding your better place.

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Originally Posted by VTHokieFan

I don't blame you. Portland is not worth the money it costs to live here. There are much better places to live and I wish you the best of luck in finding your better place.

Thank you! And I agree! I'd really like to move back east, but I do have some obligations to my family, I feel, to stay in the state of Oregon. Which is unfortunate. I basically am deciding whether to do what makes me happy or what makes my family happy, and choosing between the more practical choice of moving to Eugene or following my heart and leaving the state altogether.

[ramedud]

Originally Posted by valsteele

I've decided to leave Portland for greener pastures. I will have about $1500 so it's a big gamble but I just need to get the hell out of here. I don't know where I'm going to go yet, but I am going to plan meticulously the next couple of weeks.

I quit my job and gave a 30 day notice to my landlord so I can't go back on it. I'm tired of freezing in my room, can't afford my heating anymore and it's still very cold, dealing with high crime and crackheads because I can't afford to live close-in, not being able to afford my own place, rude unfriendly people, and no opportunity.

Cya Portland! I tried to love it, and couldn't so I'm leaving it.

You basically described California. xD

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Originally Posted by ramedud

You basically described California. xD

It's a West Coast thing really.

[wanderbygrace]

I always find it interesting how you can ask two people an opinion of an area and can get two radically different interpretations.

For me, I moved here four years ago from metro Cleveland, and while I don't live in Portland proper (I live in Damascus), I absolutely love the Portland area and Pacific NW in general. I could see myself living in the Seattle metro, but other than that, there's no where on this planet I'd rather be than this area.

Now if I lived in Portland proper, especially some of the rougher areas, perhaps it'd be awful. But then again, every town has it's nightmare areas. Cleveland sure had them.

[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.

[raggedjim]

Why not Canada?

[Ms_Christina]

Well, good luck to you. There is the door. Don't let the door hit ya where the good lord split ya.

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Originally Posted by wanderbygrace

I always find it interesting how you can ask two people an opinion of an area and can get two radically different interpretations.
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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.