So I'm planning on moving to Portland, OR in the fall

[bearmick]

Portland is kinda weird. Its sorta in the middle of nowhere. But there is lotsa outdoors shit to do withing like a 2 hour drive. It fuckin rains a lot there so be prepared for that.

The oregon coast has one of the best bike tour routes in the whole country. Its fuckin awesome. And you should start planning a trip to the olympic peninsula as soon as you get there.

Yeah, it is. I like that it's a fair sized city that's relatively remote from other built up areas. Everywhere I've been before it's been city/suburb/small towns. There it's you're in Portland and then you're in the mountains or countryside. Beautiful.

 

[bearmick]

You will be very happy there..Loaded with lefty loonies

Indeed. It will be cool to have football, rather than politics, as the outlet for my contrarianism.

 

[botfly10]

Better get one of these. Seriously tho, spend some money on a jacket.

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[Tjodalv]

That's definitely one thing you'll have to get used to; being surrounded by teenage runaways/addicts. They don't have your typical homeless people so much as their own weird underclass of young people squatting.

 

[botfly10]

Also, its hard to find jobs there. Hipsters have been poring in for a long time and there is not much industry or anything.

 

[bearmick]

Better get one of these. Seriously tho, spend some money on a jacket.

http://www.rei.com/product/855420/arcteryx-beta-lt-jacket-mens#descriptionTab

I think Portland's climate is pretty similar to where I grew up (Edinburgh).

 

[bearmick]

That's definitely one thing you'll have to get used to; being surrounded by teenage runaways/addicts. They don't have your typical homeless people so much as their own weird underclass of young people squatting.

Yep, another thing that reminds me of parts of Scotland.

 

[botfly10]

That's definitely one thing you'll have to get used to; being surrounded by teenage runaways/addicts. They don't have your typical homeless people so much as their own weird underclass of young people squatting.

They arent all teenage runaways or junkies. Portland is a central hub for the upper middle class homeless-hipster scene.

 

[bearmick]

Also, its hard to find jobs there. Hipsters have been poring in for a long time and there is not much industry or anything.

Hmm. Friends out there have told me the job market isn't bad.

 

[botfly10]

Well, maybe its getting better now. Theres just a lot of people that move there cause they want to live in Portland, not cause work or anything.

 

[bearmick]

Well, maybe its getting better now. Theres just a lot of people that move there cause they want to live in Portland, not cause work or anything.

Yeah, I wish it was less trendy. My positive side is telling me that since it's been trendy for so long, it's maybe on the downslope of it's trendiness. It just makes sense since I know people there, and I've been wanting to get out of Springpatch for so long now.

 

[Omeletpants]

A lot of those cops shows with junkies are filmed in Portland.

 

[ShiftyDevil]

Portland's nice.

Good food and beer, decent city for stuff to do, ton of out doors-y stuff to do. Winter sports around here are very fun, so if you don't ski/snowboard it's a great chance to learn. Traffic can suck horribly at times, though I've heard they've been working on it, to off set that it's a very bike friendly city (at least I've been told). I live in Seattle and it's been quite a while since I went down to Portland. Oregon coast is fun to visit as, very beautiful.

Not as much stuff to do there as in Western Washington, but the cost of living is a good bit cheaper.

I don't know what the job market down there is like.

As someone originally from the Midwest, I'd never choose over the Northwest. I've been all over the country (well the lower 48), and I think the Pacific Northwest is the nicest part of the nation.

 

[botfly10]

Pacific Northwest is the best place in the country to live if you can acclimate to the climate. A close runner up might be the west side foothills of the Sierra Nevada Mountains

 

[bearmick]

Portland's nice.

Good food and beer, decent city for stuff to do, ton of out doors-y stuff to do. Winter sports around here are very fun, so if you don't ski/snowboard it's a great chance to learn. Traffic can suck horribly at times, though I've heard they've been working on it, to off set that it's a very bike friendly city (at least I've been told). I live in Seattle and it's been quite a while since I went down to Portland. Oregon coast is fun to visit as, very beautiful.

Not as much stuff to do there as in Western Washington, but the cost of living is a good bit cheaper.

I don't know what the job market down there is like.

As someone originally from the Midwest, I'd never choose over the Northwest. I've been all over the country (well the lower 48), and I think the Pacific Northwest is the nicest part of the nation.

From all the things you hear about how trendy Portland is, I'd have expected it to be almost as expensive to live in as SF or Seattle, but from everything I've looked into so far, it's quite a lot cheaper than both.

 

[bearmick]

Pacific Northwest is the best place in the country to live if you can acclimate to the climate.

It's more or less the same climate as the one I grew up in. Summer anywhere from mid 60s to mid 80s, winter in the 40s, lots of rain, lots of greenery, very rare to get the kind of extreme hot or cold the Midwest gets.

 

[HeHateMe]

If my hipster wife didnt marry me, she would have moved to portland. I would have followed. Godspeed, mick!

 

[Unannounced Fart]

My friend went to school in Oregon (University of Oregon), but could only stay there for a year due to the weather. He just couldn't take all the rain and cloudy days. He said that he rarely saw the sun, but he's from southern California, where there's sun 350 days of the year. But it sounds like that won't bother you.

 

[Les Grossman]

From all the things you hear about how trendy Portland is, I'd have expected it to be almost as expensive to live in as SF or Seattle, but from everything I've looked into so far, it's quite a lot cheaper than both.

SF is the most expensive city to live in the entire nation now.

 

[Les Grossman]

Pacific Northwest is the best place in the country to live if you can acclimate to the climate. A close runner up might be the west side foothills of the Sierra Nevada Mountains

Northern Ca offers a similar area without the shitty weather.