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HAY GUYS.
I think I have finally talked my wife into moving to Portland, OR this coming summer. We'll be visiting probably in late may and hopefully moving not long after.
So I need some help from ALLL the PDX people here:
whats the best part of town to live in?
I don't need any huge frills, just safe, cheap, and good access to the mass transit system.
We need a 2BR house or townhome, preferrably $1100/mo or under.
Mostly, I just value your advice one what neighborhoods to avoid, etc.
Also, anybody got any good advice on moving cross country without going insane and broke? That'd be nice. This will be a 2400mi. journey. | |
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09/07/07
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deltasleep
Maybe I just met some real jerks, lol.
I'd imagine nobody's race relations are quite so strange as they are in the south.
Bear in mind I have never been west of the Mississippi river in the US, so i feel like an exchange student again.
My wife told me last night that the thought of moving somewhere that had so few problems that ecology seems like the top of the list sounds pretty nice.
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deltasleep
So yeah, I know people are gonna gawk at the way she talks, esp as a speech therapist. She worries about snobbery about her accent. She grew up in college park, GA.
And if you know where that is, you know how amazing she is.
09/07/07
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mulletballet
BTW, the 'avoid Foster' -- I live just north of Foster, and the neighborhood (Lents) is improved dramatically over what it was just a few years ago, and constantly getting better -- when you're out here to visit, we should have an em411 meet and show you around town a bit so you get a feel for the different areas...
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deltasleep
yes, you need to play em411 realtor agency and drive us around in a mini van!
It's so hard to try and learn about a city w/o being there, but i'm enjoying the advice so far! this is NOT the kind of crap you get can get a feel for any other way!
09/07/07
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ignatius
i live in north portland. just over the nopo/NE line. i love it. max line is a few blocks from my house and downtown is just down the hill and to the right. i have a ton of friends who live pretty close and there's lot's of good places to eat/drink etc around here. plus it feels a bit outside of town so it's a little quieter and less gentrified but things change fast. they are developing little pockets of older hoods in north and NE portland but sometimes in a pretty conscious way. $1100 a month will find you a nice place pretty much anywhere except downtown... well.. it'll be nice but it'll be real small. my friends lived a few blocks off alberta street in a two bedroom house w/garage and big yard for a garden (they grew lot's of veggies) and they paid less than $1100. that was 6 months ago.
all the other advice in the thread covers anything else i'd have to say. don't go to far east or two far north and stay the fuck away from beaverton.
i wouldn't worry about the accent. my GF is from oregon and every time she and her sister hear a southern twang they talk about how charming and cool it is. my niece is from north carolina and she came to visit and they never tired of hearing her drawl.
i just got back from burning man (pics soon john) and half the people in our camp were talking about moving to portland w/in the next year.
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jdg
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mlbot
Deltasleep said: "Plus, I told my wife I was famous in portland, so you guys gotta help me out"
Tell us specifically when and where your trip is, we'll show up with big signs.
Portland  Dillyslap!
09/07/07
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mlbot
PS, yes, you will have to sell your truck, unless you want to be mistaken for a lesbian.
You can puchase either 1. a Subaru outback or 2. a carbon-fibre frame fixed-gear bicycle. A Mini Cooper might also suffice, but only if you put a "keep portland weird" bumper sticker next to the "all who wander are not lost" one. They all cost about the same.
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Jim
The value of homes here in Portland continues to climb according to link, which is a site I check to see how much my house is worth. Houses in Multnomah county increased by 5% during the last year, but since I bought my house, prices in my zipcode increased by 10-12%. I think people will continue to move to Portland and prices will continue to rise. If there is yearly growth on the 10%+ level, there probably won't be many sub-200k homes left in nopo. Of course, I'm not an expert and have no idea how the mortgage stuff going on right now is going to affect this. Just something to think about delta if you're planning on buying that right now homes are not increasing in value as much as they were a year ago.
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jdg
i just lol'd myself into a fit of shits from sir mlpoops post
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deltasleep
I'm pretty confident a home in the area would be a good buy. Especially given the large-scale exodus of californians looking for things just like portland. A well organized city can always generate increases. Portland and the area has SO much room to grow, the entire population of the state is 1/3 of TN and its living on 3x the land mass. A $200,000 home on the west coast seems like a really good investment. There are NOT a lot of places left like that.
Which is amazing, because i live near developments full of $130,000 homes.
09/07/07
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deltasleep
wow nothing gets attention and comments like PORTLAND.
I post a blog offering to write music for your crappy song poems and ONE person send somehting. I say "portland" and I have 30 comments!
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deltasleep
whats the best coffee shop in portland?
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mlbot
we dont drink cofffee
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