no i think there just giving advice, which is mostly about the cost of living. but she's also a figure head, you need to get information from somebody that's local or somebody that's lived there awhile.
I think this video is actually to discourage people from moving to Portland. I heard a lot of the residents do not want new people moving in. She seems to be amongst them. Lol
Today, January 4, 2018, that $1,200 apartment she spoke about is $1,400. Also, you have to pay for downtown parking, which runs $200+ per month. Lack of affordable housing is being blamed for part of the city's huge homelessness problem. Rose City should now be called Sidewalk Camping City.
Can someone who lives (or has lived) in Portland please tell me...are the winters 7 months long like they are in Denver, Colorado or are they just 3 months out of the year? I'm thinking about moving to Portland but don't want to deal with 7 month winters again.
Don't move to Portland. It won't be what you expect. It's expensive. Her take on renting is way too low. Apartments and rental housing is expensive. $1200 a month for a nice apartment? Where? An awful lot of people who live here now would love to find one. Buying a home is expensive. Portland has an urban growth boundary and so we're getting squashed together. Older small houses are being torn down to make way for huge and very expensive homes. In the last 2 years, 3 homes were torn down and new ones filling to the lots went up. The cheapest of these was over $800,000. We have 2 seasons here. Wet and dry. Wet is about 8 to 9 months a year. Like sunshine? Come for the summer, then run like hell. We get a good snowfall every few years for a week or so, and the city shuts down. We don't salt the roads and getting them cleared takes quite a while. And people here don't know how to drive on snow and ice, so you take a big risk driving in that kind of weather. When the economy takes a downswing, we lose jobs before anyone else in the country. When it starts to improve, we improve slower than other parts of the country. Right now Portland has a road crisis. We can't pay to maintain them. There are potholes everywhere. Our tax structure is heavy on income tax, but we have no sales tax. You'd do better to live in Washington state and drive down to do your shopping. And the more people who move to Portland make it worse. We don't have the economy or the infrastructure to handle too many new people each year. Portland is a VERY liberal city, but with a past of some of the worst discrimination in the country. The result of over a century of racism will take quite a while to correct. We're trying though. We have protests that close the downtown a few times a year. If you hear a protest being organized, avoid the downtown at all costs. You could get stuck for hours. We have great beer and wine, but you'll pay for it at the bar. And if you're coming just to booze it up, there are much better places. The old run down funky neighborhoods have all been gentrified. Those cheap apartments and thrift stores are all gone. That said.... I love my city. I'm not a sunshine person, so the everlasting gloom works for me. I have a great deal on the house I rent, but I doubt anyone else will find one like it. I get it through friends I've known for 40 years. I don't drive much. I take our mass transit system. It's clean and will get me where I want to go... eventually. I'm retired and live with a roommate to make ends meet. I could never afford to live here otherwise. If I lose the deal on the house, I'll have to move from the city. The same sized house one street over has a rent of 3 times what I pay. I've lived here for 40 years, and I've seen a lot of changes. This is my home. I live in fear that soon I won't be able to afford living here. So don't come to Portland based on some TV show or idea of living in a quirky city. Make sure you've got a good job in a reputable company before you come. Consider living in Gresham or Vancouver Washington or one of the surrounding towns rather than in the city itself. Be prepared for long, gloomy wet seasons and your car hitting potholes.
I moved here a year in a half ago and I have been struggling. Moving out of here this May. I pay 1500 for a crap hole in the suburbs. I am leaving Portland in May. I actually liked the city.
I understand. You used to be able to get a nice apartment in NW Portland for about $600. 2 bedrooms in an old apartment building, big rooms... but a small kitchen. That same apartment goes for $2000 now. It's not been redone, just the prices have gone up so much. There are cheap places in some neighborhoods though. You just have to know where to look. Rent is cheaper in Wilsonville or Oregon City, but you're still pretty close to Portland. I have a deal on my house, from an old family friend. If I lost this place, I'd have to move 40 or 50 miles out to get a place I could afford.
Yup, totally agree with all of that. Thankfully we bought a starter home in NE 10+ yrs ago. There are obvious pros and cons to owning, but more pros long term. The influx of newcomers was too many and too fast. Without enough available housing, rent and market value prices shoot up real fast. Salaries aren't even that high here because of such an influx - even in the tech industries. I'm lucky to work remotely for a silicon valley startup with their salaries. Also, public transportation kinda sucks and I think the city expects everyone to ditch their cars and only use buses and bikes, which isn't realistic unless you live close in. Homelessness and property crime seems to have skyrocketed in the past few years, but I'm sure hard drugs and the cost of living all play into that. We thought our rough hood would gentrify, but instead, we've added alarms, cameras, and generally more security measures. Good beer and legal weed helps, but I still haven't gotten used to the 9 months of wet gloomy weather. Overall I still like this town, but it's just not an easy place to move to now unless you're cashing out of a nice CA home or have lots of funds.
I'll stay in Manhattan NY at least NY is expensive and makes up for with shopping plaza like fifth avenue and Oculus center and transportation ,various restaurant, best bars, rooftop bar and so much more
I'll stay in Manhattan NY at least NY is expensive and makes up for with shopping plaza like fifth avenue and Oculus center and transportation ,various restaurant, best bars, rooftop bar and so much more lol 😂😂
Marshall Steeves I grew up in a city with 7000 ppl. 1 elementary school, 1 middle school, 1 jr high and 1 high school. now that's small and literally everyone knows everybody. and when a new family moved to town everyone know who they are and where they came from by dinner time.
I've lived here for 30 years and I'm going to move. This city has gone to shit with all the trust funder yuppie 30 somethings moving here. Real estate prices ridiculously inflated, very high property taxes, getting too overcrowded/overdeveloped, OUT OF CONTROL homeless population, street crime on the rise (regardless of what the statistic say), people getting randomly stabbed to death on the streets. The city was so cool in the 1980's and 90's but it ain't the same city anymore. Good bye.
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The sterile presentation (white background with that black hair and that stiff outfit??) combined with the android-like precision and reptilian lack of warmth made this video very awkward. Not sure what the true purpose of this video is, at it discourages the viewer rather than imparting useful information. Thumbs down from me.
The video should continue and say Portland is the whitest city in America however it retains the look and feel of a third world country with homeless people camping on the sidewalks and throwing garbage everywhere. Also it snows sometimes, and the city cannot cope. Three inches of snow can close the city for a week. No joke.
There are blacks and whites and mexicans and asians living on my street in outer SE Portland, and we all get along just fine. homogeneity is overrated...
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So its the east coast on the west side.
Yes
If I could move out of Portland today I could
Drew Cowlthorp literally nothing is stopping you just don’t want to move asshole
$1200 is what I pay here in California and I live in the cheaper area of the state...
Video seems discouraging in the beginning. Awkward
Did you watch the whole video?
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no i think there just giving advice, which is mostly about the cost of living. but she's also a figure head, you need to get information from somebody that's local or somebody that's lived there awhile.
I think this video is actually to discourage people from moving to Portland. I heard a lot of the residents do not want new people moving in. She seems to be amongst them. Lol
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Don’t worry about why people want to move to Portland
there are starbucks' on EVERY block in DT portland. Whatchu talkin bout "starbucks will not be as prevelent??
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So where are the moving tips?
Did you get a chance to visit the site? There are links to tips and other pages explaining how to move. Hope everything went well on your move.
Today, January 4, 2018, that $1,200 apartment she spoke about is $1,400. Also, you have to pay for downtown parking, which runs $200+ per month. Lack of affordable housing is being blamed for part of the city's huge homelessness problem. Rose City should now be called Sidewalk Camping City.
These things are happening everywhere, it seems.
BEST beer and food I've ever had in my entire life. This, combined with the lazy-weather would make me extremely FAT within 6 months.
Can someone who lives (or has lived) in Portland please tell me...are the winters 7 months long like they are in Denver, Colorado or are they just 3 months out of the year? I'm thinking about moving to Portland but don't want to deal with 7 month winters again.
I will first finish career then move there or Miami idk
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Don't move to Portland. It won't be what you expect.
It's expensive. Her take on renting is way too low. Apartments and rental housing is expensive. $1200 a month for a nice apartment? Where? An awful lot of people who live here now would love to find one.
Buying a home is expensive. Portland has an urban growth boundary and so we're getting squashed together. Older small houses are being torn down to make way for huge and very expensive homes. In the last 2 years, 3 homes were torn down and new ones filling to the lots went up. The cheapest of these was over $800,000.
We have 2 seasons here. Wet and dry. Wet is about 8 to 9 months a year. Like sunshine? Come for the summer, then run like hell. We get a good snowfall every few years for a week or so, and the city shuts down. We don't salt the roads and getting them cleared takes quite a while. And people here don't know how to drive on snow and ice, so you take a big risk driving in that kind of weather.
When the economy takes a downswing, we lose jobs before anyone else in the country. When it starts to improve, we improve slower than other parts of the country.
Right now Portland has a road crisis. We can't pay to maintain them. There are potholes everywhere. Our tax structure is heavy on income tax, but we have no sales tax. You'd do better to live in Washington state and drive down to do your shopping.
And the more people who move to Portland make it worse. We don't have the economy or the infrastructure to handle too many new people each year.
Portland is a VERY liberal city, but with a past of some of the worst discrimination in the country. The result of over a century of racism will take quite a while to correct. We're trying though.
We have protests that close the downtown a few times a year. If you hear a protest being organized, avoid the downtown at all costs. You could get stuck for hours.
We have great beer and wine, but you'll pay for it at the bar. And if you're coming just to booze it up, there are much better places.
The old run down funky neighborhoods have all been gentrified. Those cheap apartments and thrift stores are all gone.
That said....
I love my city. I'm not a sunshine person, so the everlasting gloom works for me. I have a great deal on the house I rent, but I doubt anyone else will find one like it. I get it through friends I've known for 40 years. I don't drive much. I take our mass transit system. It's clean and will get me where I want to go... eventually. I'm retired and live with a roommate to make ends meet. I could never afford to live here otherwise. If I lose the deal on the house, I'll have to move from the city. The same sized house one street over has a rent of 3 times what I pay.
I've lived here for 40 years, and I've seen a lot of changes. This is my home. I live in fear that soon I won't be able to afford living here.
So don't come to Portland based on some TV show or idea of living in a quirky city. Make sure you've got a good job in a reputable company before you come. Consider living in Gresham or Vancouver Washington or one of the surrounding towns rather than in the city itself. Be prepared for long, gloomy wet seasons and your car hitting potholes.
I moved here a year in a half ago and I have been struggling. Moving out of here this May. I pay 1500 for a crap hole in the suburbs. I am leaving Portland in May. I actually liked the city.
I understand.
You used to be able to get a nice apartment in NW Portland for about $600. 2 bedrooms in an old apartment building, big rooms... but a small kitchen.
That same apartment goes for $2000 now. It's not been redone, just the prices have gone up so much.
There are cheap places in some neighborhoods though. You just have to know where to look. Rent is cheaper in Wilsonville or Oregon City, but you're still pretty close to Portland.
I have a deal on my house, from an old family friend. If I lost this place, I'd have to move 40 or 50 miles out to get a place I could afford.
Yup, totally agree with all of that. Thankfully we bought a starter home in NE 10+ yrs ago. There are obvious pros and cons to owning, but more pros long term. The influx of newcomers was too many and too fast. Without enough available housing, rent and market value prices shoot up real fast. Salaries aren't even that high here because of such an influx - even in the tech industries. I'm lucky to work remotely for a silicon valley startup with their salaries. Also, public transportation kinda sucks and I think the city expects everyone to ditch their cars and only use buses and bikes, which isn't realistic unless you live close in. Homelessness and property crime seems to have skyrocketed in the past few years, but I'm sure hard drugs and the cost of living all play into that. We thought our rough hood would gentrify, but instead, we've added alarms, cameras, and generally more security measures. Good beer and legal weed helps, but I still haven't gotten used to the 9 months of wet gloomy weather. Overall I still like this town, but it's just not an easy place to move to now unless you're cashing out of a nice CA home or have lots of funds.
James Coffey this was really helpful, thank you
I'll stay in Manhattan NY at least NY is expensive and makes up for with shopping plaza like fifth avenue and Oculus center and transportation ,various restaurant, best bars, rooftop bar and so much more
I'll stay in Manhattan NY at least NY is expensive and makes up for with shopping plaza like fifth avenue and Oculus center and transportation ,various restaurant, best bars, rooftop bar and so much more lol 😂😂
"If you don't have enough money to pay for your new place, it may be somewhat difficult to earn money in Portland." Huh?
wendy darling WENDY, don’t worry about it, they can create more jobs, Wendy, Huh
wendy darling WHITE PEOPLE
Increasing rent plus not-so-good job opportunities = life becoming a struggle
This is pretty much anywhere in the world these days.
In Israel 1500$ for a 4 room apartment is nothing
My dad lives 30 minutes from Tel Aviv in a 3 room apartment and he pats like 1200$ each month
maybe because it's Tel-Aviv.
It's true, Portland just sucks now. I just moved here and I'm already leaving. PEACE.
Conrad Weiser What has made you want to leave?
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She gives me anxiety 😩
Sounds like Vancouver, BC
Portland is cheaper
It's true. I know everyone here now. It's too small. Not quite a large city yet.
Marshall Steeves you mean you know people on your block? I live in this city, and there's hundreds of thousands of people here...
Marshall Steeves I grew up in a city with 7000 ppl. 1 elementary school, 1 middle school, 1 jr high and 1 high school. now that's small and literally everyone knows everybody. and when a new family moved to town everyone know who they are and where they came from by dinner time.
Nah bro you don't know me.
But I do.
lol
I've lived here for 30 years and I'm going to move. This city has gone to shit with all the trust funder yuppie 30 somethings moving here. Real estate prices ridiculously inflated, very high property taxes, getting too overcrowded/overdeveloped, OUT OF CONTROL homeless population, street crime on the rise (regardless of what the statistic say), people getting randomly stabbed to death on the streets. The city was so cool in the 1980's and 90's but it ain't the same city anymore. Good bye.
Mind if I ask where you moved to? I live in Portland but I'm considering moving.
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Here’s a simple answer don’t
Portland... When your realize that your recycling bin is always empty.
Don't it sucks
tip #1: just don't. stop. please, please stop
Why is she wearing a wig?
Frankie B cancer
and to think many years ago Portland Oregon was just a small sleepy little town think again.
Nice fake twins ! Good job
This video is shockingly inaccurate.
It looks pretty DISMAL and discouraging. I'll STAY in CHICAGO !
Lol we have a Chicago video Ill make sure we send it to you.
No thanks! I KNOW how WONDERFUL my city is! REALLY ! So don't waste your time, or MINE!
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Just live in a tent ! very affordable!
Tip 1 dont
Nice wig
Portland is not like that it's better then that
I was ripping farts through the whole video
Don't. Just don't.
And the most discouraging video on UA-cam is...... ??????
this is so cringe worthy
I wonder if she may have re-considered this video, the hair, the nails.....the character she represents living in portland.....NOPE LOL
What is this video. Soo weird.
I hope not everybody that lives there is as robotic and awkward as you are. Your hand motions are making me uncomfortable
The sterile presentation (white background with that black hair and that stiff outfit??) combined with the android-like precision and reptilian lack of warmth made this video very awkward. Not sure what the true purpose of this video is, at it discourages the viewer rather than imparting useful information. Thumbs down from me.
Nice wig lady. And thanks for your non informative information.
The video should continue and say Portland is the whitest city in America however it retains the look and feel of a third world country with homeless people camping on the sidewalks and throwing garbage everywhere. Also it snows sometimes, and the city cannot cope. Three inches of snow can close the city for a week. No joke.
How hilarious... and accurate.
there's also crime in the city, besides homeless people. just because there's more white people doesn't mean crime won't exist.
Nothing wrong with the city being white but I agree with the other points. It's also getting too expensive.
Thanks for real info never moving there
There are blacks and whites and mexicans and asians living on my street in outer SE Portland, and we all get along just fine. homogeneity is overrated...
Oof. This is trash. Also, the hands😳
Vid fake
drone shots are cringey. get a better pilot lol
Dang i wanna move to Portland.
That is a horrible wig
Tip 1: Don't move this freaking depressing and racist place
I hear they are pretty anti-white.
Norwegian Blue Friendly for sure, anti-white? Nope. More like we are all hippies and we give no crap, so anti-anything-and-everything.
dontmovehere#
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