24 Things You Should Know Before Moving To Portland Oregon

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  • Опубліковано 22 гру 2024

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  • @LivinginOregonandWashington
    @LivinginOregonandWashington  Місяць тому +2

    🏡 Sign up for my unique *headhunters list* by completing a form here: rb.gy/ptsfsm

  • @ItsMeChickpea
    @ItsMeChickpea 11 днів тому

    I love this video, thank you! Well done. I'd recommend to check your audio quality, it's clipping quite a bit (easy fix on your camera settings!) Good luck Tim!

    • @LivinginOregonandWashington
      @LivinginOregonandWashington  11 днів тому +2

      @@ItsMeChickpea thanks for watching! I need to hire a video editor soon, it’s fun and i’m getting better but want it to be pro level!

  • @IdeologyPill
    @IdeologyPill 21 день тому +1

    We left Portland and moved to Happy Valley - We love it 😍

    • @LivinginOregonandWashington
      @LivinginOregonandWashington  21 день тому

      @@IdeologyPill Happy Valley is great!

    • @IdeologyPill
      @IdeologyPill 21 день тому

      @ extremely low to no crime- no homeless- no graffiti- no trash - noise - no pollution- almost no problems

    • @LivinginOregonandWashington
      @LivinginOregonandWashington  21 день тому

      @@IdeologyPill I agree! All the charm of Portland with close to none of the problems.

    • @JonLewis-f6o
      @JonLewis-f6o 17 днів тому

      What charm is in happy valley like Portland? Most of the food is boring and most businesses I’ve seen are new builds.

    • @LivinginOregonandWashington
      @LivinginOregonandWashington  14 днів тому

      @@JonLewis-f6o they’ve got good carts, you’ve gotta go deeper into 162nd and 172nd, there’s some great restaurants and hang out spots.
      Or, check out De Fuego at the Monarch. Hands down one of the best restaurants in all of Portland area, not just Happy Valley.
      Not the same as Portland, but then you can always just drive into Portland if you want to.

  • @AuthenticallyDayton
    @AuthenticallyDayton 18 днів тому

    Very informative! I will be there in the next few months to check it out! Would love to have a chat with you while I am there.

  • @condor5150
    @condor5150 Місяць тому +1

    I'm 52 and having an dilemma on whether I should buy in Portland or Seattle? Or just forget about buying and becoming an expat abroad in SE Asia? I'll contact you if I do decide to settle in Portland and buy. Thanks

    • @LivinginOregonandWashington
      @LivinginOregonandWashington  Місяць тому

      @@condor5150 Thanks for watching. I know some who have a pad in the NW, and go to SE Asia for vacation. Totally down to your goals. Cheers 🤙🏼

    • @condor5150
      @condor5150 Місяць тому

      @@LivinginOregonandWashingtonThanks for the response. Your the broker that I would like to work with if I decide to buy in Portland. I have attempted to move to there back in the 90's but regretfully chose Utah/Colorado instead. I agree with you that the PNW cities will rise again with a massive worldwide migration. And if I do buy in Portland or Seattle. There would be no turning back, so maybe I'll just visit? Thanks again.

    • @AtlanRau
      @AtlanRau Місяць тому

      As a former resident of the area, if you move to the area, if youre looking to live in the city proper, Seattle. If youre OK with being 20~ minutes outside of the city, then Vancouver, WA which is across the bridge from Portland (no state income tax).

    • @erictran4001
      @erictran4001 Місяць тому

      Check out Da Nang Vietnam.

    • @LivinginOregonandWashington
      @LivinginOregonandWashington  Місяць тому

      @@AtlanRau Agree for people on fixed income thats a good plan. Just got a retired gentleman a ranch in Vancouver, good neighborhood for $430,000.

  • @jameshaxby5434
    @jameshaxby5434 Місяць тому +1

    Downtown was more walkable than the eastside until the homeless started pitching their tents on the sidewalk.

  • @paiddj3397
    @paiddj3397 12 днів тому +1

    PORTLAND IS NOT VANCOUVER.
    I wish people would stop saying we are the same. We are NOT. Vancouver residents flock to Portland to work and shop so they can beat the tax. It's Washingtonians that jam up our freeways. Check out I5 or I205 any weekday and check out how many license plates are Washington vs Oregon.
    We are not the same at all. I've lived in Oregon for 40 years and have stepped into Washington twice and regretted it.

    • @LivinginOregonandWashington
      @LivinginOregonandWashington  12 днів тому

      @@paiddj3397 I’ve lived on both sides of the river, friendly and mean folks on both sides but mostly friendly on both.

    • @paiddj3397
      @paiddj3397 12 днів тому

      ​@@LivinginOregonandWashington oh

  • @Brutuscomedy
    @Brutuscomedy Місяць тому +1

    A lot of people openly say the f slur in public (including employees of businesses). Just something to keep in mind should one think this place so "liberal"

    • @cat_luver16
      @cat_luver16 3 дні тому

      79% of mulnotmah county voted blue in 2024, it’s definitely liberal, but being liberal doesn’t make you a woke person automatically

  • @Mk-qb2ny
    @Mk-qb2ny Місяць тому

    Seems like you forgot to mention one particular think Portland has been known of lately...

  • @TCBulldog2016
    @TCBulldog2016 Місяць тому +2

    Not to mention the 3 months of rioting and looting, the homeless encampments that have spread to the suburbs you can no longer afford to live in, the open air drug use, the graffiti, the insane taxes and a downtown area full of boarded up buildings and store fronts.

    • @LivinginOregonandWashington
      @LivinginOregonandWashington  Місяць тому

      @@TCBulldog2016 Check out
      my recent video addressing this:
      ua-cam.com/video/-OC8xDVM0bI/v-deo.htmlsi=-UXDKso4MyaPE9oI

    • @Jalapenioman8049
      @Jalapenioman8049 Місяць тому

      😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂 weak ass mofo! Crying over protests that has nothing to do with you! 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂

  • @Alan_in_Portland
    @Alan_in_Portland Місяць тому +1

    25 I live here!

  • @strait08
    @strait08 Місяць тому +3

    No Thankszzzzz

    • @LivinginOregonandWashington
      @LivinginOregonandWashington  Місяць тому +2

      To Portland? More IPAs for the rest of us. Thanks for watching!

    • @gthisiseasy
      @gthisiseasy Місяць тому

      Live a sober life. And be faithful as you wait to meet your maker.

  • @AtlanRau
    @AtlanRau Місяць тому +10

    DO NOT MOVE TO PORTLAND. Full stop. If you want to "move to Portland" move to Vancouver, WA. No state income tax is a HUGE win if you make a good salary. Both WA and OR are following CA with their gun bans and magazine restrictions. Both are legal weed. The power move is to live in Vancouver but drive over into OR and buy there, because there is no sales tax in OR. But Portland itself is sketch. Wayyy too many homeless. Had to step over human excrement myself once by the courthouse plaza area. I moved more north by Olympia and prefer it up here, with the exception that it's slightly MORE rainy/cloudy than even Portland area -- (which I am now missing as winter sets in) - I think the Vancover/Portland area has one of the better mixes of temps compared to where I am now, but 20 acres there was 500k, and what I got was only 340k... so sometimes you go where the deals are. (Now to buy a winter place in Vegas...)

    • @LivinginOregonandWashington
      @LivinginOregonandWashington  Місяць тому +3

      Some good points, my video last week gave 15 huge points about Vancouver and broke the tax savings down to a percentage. It’s actually pretty shocking when you see the numbers:
      ua-cam.com/video/Pv6wHs-V6EM/v-deo.htmlsi=p-kvSfkxrRhXNPHo

    • @kingsleyrobson3607
      @kingsleyrobson3607 Місяць тому +5

      if gun mag capacity regs are your issue.... you've lost your humanity

    • @AtlanRau
      @AtlanRau Місяць тому +4

      @@kingsleyrobson3607 - If your humanity is the sort of "humanity" I had to step over when I was visiting Porland -- you can keep it. I'll keep my Constitutional rights.

    • @avengemybreath3084
      @avengemybreath3084 Місяць тому

      @@kingsleyrobson3607you are assuming the police will come if you need them.

    • @queztocoaxial
      @queztocoaxial 21 день тому

      ​@@avengemybreath3084You're assuming that the police protect the public. They do not. The police only serve the rich.

  • @amberackerson5916
    @amberackerson5916 Місяць тому

    How come you can’t pronounce “esplanade” correctly if you’re a real estate agent here? I’ve been here 35 years. It’s getting much better here. We really suffered and things went way down hill 2016-21, getting noticeably better now.

    • @LivinginOregonandWashington
      @LivinginOregonandWashington  Місяць тому

      British English, I was born in London. There's two different pronunciations to it.

    • @amberackerson5916
      @amberackerson5916 Місяць тому

      @@LivinginOregonandWashingtonI lived in East Sussex for many years. You do not have an English accent.Midwest I could believe. If you lived here you’d pronounce it the way it is pronounced here.

    • @LivinginOregonandWashington
      @LivinginOregonandWashington  Місяць тому +2

      @@amberackerson5916 lost my accent when I moved here. And that's not true, I still pronounce a lot of words the British way since my parents are also British. I don't say aunt like ant, for example. I am an English major and don't find a lot of fun finding ways to tell people how to say things, English is a bastard language.

  • @whatwhome6914
    @whatwhome6914 Місяць тому +2

    Portland is NOT the headquarters of Nike, Intel, and others mentioned. No large company with a brain would have their headquarters in Portland. Also, a reduction in the number of people that think Portland is getting worse means nothing. If a city is already bad, a reduction in people thinking it is getting worse doesn't mean the city is good. Regarding roads, the I-5 highway goes from Canada all the way to Mexico. Portland is the only large city along that route that squeezes I-5 to two through lanes in each direction. Portland is also the only city along that route that will soon require tolls to travel on their inadequate road. On the plus side, Portland has a good airport and a lot of food options. That is about it. We now avoid Portland as much as we can.

    • @LivinginOregonandWashington
      @LivinginOregonandWashington  Місяць тому +2

      @@whatwhome6914 Nike and Intel are both Headquartered in the greater Portland metro.
      Stats also state that those who come here least frequently are more likely to think it’s still as bad as it was, so seems it’s checking out here!