Don't forget to mention the extensive transit system with something like 80 miles of light rail lines and bus service to almost every area nearby portland, including Vancouver, WA. I can get on a bus in SE portland and be at work in West Hillsboro in about 1 hour and 40 minutes. It's around a 32 mile trip.
Great video! I've been visiting Portland for well over 10 years and the city has had my heart. I've dreamed of moving there from my home in Los Angeles (I know, I know. Me and everyone else), but I genuinely want to be here as I feel more aligned with the city. Alberta has always been special to me and I was happy to see you mention it in the video! With remote work becoming more and more of a permanent thing, I might have to consider making the move soon.
I watch you exclusively now after a year of watching a plethora of creators for my upcoming move to Portland. You're amazingly detailed, informative and engaging
I'm surprised at the lack of mention of Lents. The improvement of that neighborhood over the last just 5 years is astounding and it's easily the most diverse section of Portland.
Everyone in Lents is just salty my NEET ass got lucky and had a parent who could afford Fopo in 2012. And my parent is salty the family didn't move in 2008 so they could have gotten a house in Hawthorne in the divorce. Those fuckers are salty about Ladd's Addition. BUT 122ND OH MY GOD NO YOU WANNA 187 DIE?!
Great presentation. Looking for something with sense of community, walkability, pride in ownership, hiking nearby, retail, restaurants, coffee shops and close to Max. We are considering a move to P.L. Would consider a one level home 3/2 baths, with a yard built no earlier than the 70's. What areas do you recommend?
Well,. we’ve been here for 5 months. Loving it. We’re renting right now but hope to buy next year. Surprisingly, we’re honing in on the NW Pearl. We want a little liveliness. SWF is nice but very quiet. If you have OH NO NOT THERE!…comments, do tell. This is this last time I want to move. PS…no car so looking at area with transit.
Portland seems amazing (besides the downtown situation right now). My question is, for all you long-time Portlanders, how do you deal with the weather? I love the sun, but I hate the vibe and aesthetic of most sunny places. Portland seems perfect other than like 7 months of clouds.
So grateful I found your channel! Planning a move to Portland and this is exactly the content I was looking for. (I'm an artsy weirdo 30 something with no kids if you have any advice!)
I would start looking around Alberta St, then Division/Clinton, and then near St John's Bridge (depending on your need for proximity to downtown and price range).
The only thing about Portland/Vancouver metro area that makes me want to move is everthing is so old school. It's like 10 years behind the rest of country.
It's so true! It's a bit of a culture shock even though I've lived here before. I was born and raised here and stayed until I was 26 but I still can't figure out why that can't change!
Hi everyone👋🏾!! My family and I are moving there in July and we’re so excited. My husband will be working off North Basin Ave, what are you’re recommendations?
Love your guys vids! Keep it up! Every time you say “brewskis” I have a 🍺!.. love PDX and have run the marathon city so amazing!, People are friendly down to earth for a big city!
I live in rose city park and it’s awesome. One issue with the eastside are the schools. The schools themselves are fine but the boundaries for those schools are very strange. I live less than mile from a high school but the high school my address is assigned to is at a different high school like 2.5 miles away however right now due to renovations it’s more than 5 miles away
Thank you for shedding such a positive light on Portland! I've lived here most of my life and after as much traveling as I have been able to do, I wouldn't want to live anywhere else.
I am going to portland state and my friends and I are moving but don’t know where to move to, what is a good place not too deep into the city but kind of near the university?
Do you work with renters? Looking to move up there within 2 years. Los Angeles native here (mother was a realtor for 30 years) and I believe the safest plan is to rent first before buying when relocating.
Realtor.com has a crime overlay on their map that’s pretty accurate. I used that to check out the area when I wanted to rent. I moved from San Diego to Beaverton 4 years ago. Best of luck to you!
@@mylessilton7507 - the biggest adjustment is the weather. It took me a few years to get accustomed to the winter rain. But the payoff is the beautiful outdoors. The city has taken a beating with the current political climate. But normally it’s pretty laid back here. Hopefully it’ll get back to the beautiful city it once was. Vancouver is nice too, and more affordable. No state income tax in Washington currently. You’re better off financially living there if possible.
Hello, my wife and I are considering moving within the next year. We love the Lake Oswego area, though I doubt we could afford it. Any similar neighborhood alternatives that you know of?
Im just visiting right now this is like my 5th day here and one thing I can tell you is, you really don't need a car here. EVERYONE walks/bikes/uses public transit. Even the people who own cars.
Gentrification has some negativity associated with it, not sure that’s the best way to promote specific areas. But the truth is the truth just interesting way to describe the place as a realtor.
Gentrification is great. Taking crappy neighborhoods and making them nicer, raising the native residences’ home values, raising the quality of life, decreasing crime, and a higher standard of living is all a positive. This is how you fix and clean up third world conditions. Otherwise, crime and lack of opportunity would persist and the area would just rot.
@@AssNuggett So displacing the working class, seniors on fixed incomes and PoC good for who? You want a class war? Btw, crime is way up in "gentrified" neighborhoods in Portland, chew on that a bit.
no, I would recommend staying in Beaverton because it's much of the same vibe as Happy Valley without having to commute across town/through downtown. Check out Cedar Mills.
I love your video. As a Portland native and long time CA resident who has recently moved back, can I give you one piece of advice? When you say "Portland Metro" it's much more native to say "Portland Metro Area" instead :)
Hillsboro has a much more small town vibe than any of the portland metro spots. It has good shopping and it's easy to reach downtown on the lightrail (free park and rides at most stops) I work in Hillsboro near the Washington County Sheriff's Office Public Safety Training Center packaging cannabis oils.
Great video! We are family of 4 with 2 girls 1 and 4. We followed bunch of your videos. We like lake oswego, west lynn, bethany, cedar mills, and happy valley. It's all over the map so I guess it really depends on where my wife finds her job. She works in healthcare. She doesn't like long commute... We'll watch more videos to try to understand portland metro better. Keep up the good work!
First and foremost, if you are coming from California keep heading on up to Seattle. And If you do insist on stopping here maybe don’t bring the same short sighted ideals that got you to the point of needing California. Edit: And just to show how bad things up here are, one of your realtors in the add sold meth to people in high school. Tell them about what happened to Ryan, Adam? And where brad Bolton is now? We had the same circle of people I can back this up with photos
@@tombskater3000 it was class of 03 smart ass. I’ve got proof from 2017 tho. Dude cooked in a house and killed the dog plus gave his nephew gray hair from fumes and the kid is 15.
I'm old now, been disabled all my life. I lived 'n had a small yet successful professional firm in Portland, Oregon until 2005. In 2005, anyone with a 10th grade education could see: Portland was heading for an irreversible & terrible decline and the "Good ole boy" corrupt government was the cause ....I moved a long way away. Portland was thee most beautiful & wonderful city I've visited or stayed in my world travels ...In the past 15 years, it's become an unsafe & dangerous city for disabled and elderly while government authorizes & agencies are too lazy to do their jobs. Government throughout most of Oregon, blames society while they sit 'n scratch their butts doing nothing. Local & state DA's shuffle papers, hide and/or loose over 8,000 criminal cases of elder crimes while the elderly are being abused & exploited. Far wonder the place is a mess. Rome burns while Oregon's & Portland's government crumbles. PLUS ...anyone who speaks the truth is destroyed. If your from California, you'll fit right in with Portland, Oregon's society.
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You nailed Lake Oswego. It’s just that nice. People love to hate it because it is affluent. But it’s really safe, the Lake is fantastic.
Don't forget to mention the extensive transit system with something like 80 miles of light rail lines and bus service to almost every area nearby portland, including Vancouver, WA. I can get on a bus in SE portland and be at work in West Hillsboro in about 1 hour and 40 minutes. It's around a 32 mile trip.
Great video! I've been visiting Portland for well over 10 years and the city has had my heart. I've dreamed of moving there from my home in Los Angeles (I know, I know. Me and everyone else), but I genuinely want to be here as I feel more aligned with the city. Alberta has always been special to me and I was happy to see you mention it in the video! With remote work becoming more and more of a permanent thing, I might have to consider making the move soon.
Looking to move to Oregon in the next 6 months. This video helped understand more. I’m going to visit in a couple weeks to check it all out!
Sweet that is exciting! Reach out with any questions you have as well we would be more than happy to help!
Move to rural Oregon. Much nicer than Portland.
Clackamas county. Try places like Oregon city Milwaukee and Gladstone. More affordable and way less heroin addiction and tire fires.
I watch you exclusively now after a year of watching a plethora of creators for my upcoming move to Portland. You're amazingly detailed, informative and engaging
I'm surprised at the lack of mention of Lents. The improvement of that neighborhood over the last just 5 years is astounding and it's easily the most diverse section of Portland.
Everyone in Lents is just salty my NEET ass got lucky and had a parent who could afford Fopo in 2012. And my parent is salty the family didn't move in 2008 so they could have gotten a house in Hawthorne in the divorce. Those fuckers are salty about Ladd's Addition. BUT 122ND OH MY GOD NO YOU WANNA 187 DIE?!
Great presentation. Looking for something with sense of community, walkability, pride in ownership, hiking nearby, retail, restaurants, coffee shops and close to Max. We are considering a move to P.L. Would consider a one level home 3/2 baths, with a yard built no earlier than the 70's. What areas do you recommend?
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Thanks!
Love all your videos. We are listing our home next week. Our favorite area is the South Waterfront. Can hardly wait to get there!
Well,. we’ve been here for 5 months. Loving it. We’re renting right now but hope to buy next year. Surprisingly, we’re honing in on the NW Pearl. We want a little liveliness. SWF is nice but very quiet. If you have OH NO NOT THERE!…comments, do tell. This is this last time I want to move. PS…no car so looking at area with transit.
I would love to hear about Sherwood. Thanks for the great information on what the neighborhoods are like!
Portland seems amazing (besides the downtown situation right now). My question is, for all you long-time Portlanders, how do you deal with the weather? I love the sun, but I hate the vibe and aesthetic of most sunny places. Portland seems perfect other than like 7 months of clouds.
The weather isnt as bad as outsiders claim. It rarely downpours. Winter has a lot of gray days, but April to October is perfect.
You get used to the non stop rain but some people do suffer from weather related depression ... it gets old...
Can’t believe you didn’t even mention Sellwood ! Such a nice area and family friendly. And beautiful East and West Moreland, beautiful homes.
I forgot a ton of great places after i shot it haha version 2 soon!
So grateful I found your channel! Planning a move to Portland and this is exactly the content I was looking for. (I'm an artsy weirdo 30 something with no kids if you have any advice!)
I would start looking around Alberta St, then Division/Clinton, and then near St John's Bridge (depending on your need for proximity to downtown and price range).
@@emilychandler6411 Thank you!
@@emilychandler6411 which are the safest areas with independent shops and beautiful trees?
Hope to moving to Portland in April or May for 3 years. Need to be near Legacy Hospital. 2br apt or condo.
@glenclark any Legacy location or the one in NW?
Thanks for this video!
Thanks Jackson I keep coming back to your channel despite the razzle music. You guys are working for my business.
The only thing about Portland/Vancouver metro area that makes me want to move is everthing is so old school. It's like 10 years behind the rest of country.
In what way? Like the construction?
It's so true! It's a bit of a culture shock even though I've lived here before. I was born and raised here and stayed until I was 26 but I still can't figure out why that can't change!
Lmao, that sounds like an insult
Hi everyone👋🏾!! My family and I are moving there in July and we’re so excited. My husband will be working off North Basin Ave, what are you’re recommendations?
Love your guys vids! Keep it up! Every time you say “brewskis” I have a 🍺!.. love PDX and have run the marathon city so amazing!, People are friendly down to earth for a big city!
Absolutely and glad you like the videos as much as i love BREWSKIS!!
How much money should I make to live comfortably in Portland alone?
Wow nice pillow idol. Is it from youtube. sending my support from Philippines 🇵🇭
does the max go to Beaverton and Hillsboro?
Yes!
I live in rose city park and it’s awesome. One issue with the eastside are the schools. The schools themselves are fine but the boundaries for those schools are very strange. I live less than mile from a high school but the high school my address is assigned to is at a different high school like 2.5 miles away however right now due to renovations it’s more than 5 miles away
Thank you for shedding such a positive light on Portland! I've lived here most of my life and after as much traveling as I have been able to do, I wouldn't want to live anywhere else.
I am going to portland state and my friends and I are moving but don’t know where to move to, what is a good place not too deep into the city but kind of near the university?
Do you work with renters? Looking to move up there within 2 years. Los Angeles native here (mother was a realtor for 30 years) and I believe the safest plan is to rent first before buying when relocating.
Realtor.com has a crime overlay on their map that’s pretty accurate. I used that to check out the area when I wanted to rent. I moved from San Diego to Beaverton 4 years ago. Best of luck to you!
@@BeeKaye How'd your move go? How's Portland? I'm an Angelino looking to move to Portland or maybe even Vancouver.
@@mylessilton7507 - the biggest adjustment is the weather. It took me a few years to get accustomed to the winter rain. But the payoff is the beautiful outdoors. The city has taken a beating with the current political climate. But normally it’s pretty laid back here. Hopefully it’ll get back to the beautiful city it once was. Vancouver is nice too, and more affordable. No state income tax in Washington currently. You’re better off financially living there if possible.
@@BeeKaye Good thing you weren't here 17 years ago, we had much wetter weather year-round.
Just did the same thing, Laura! Considering buying but currently renting a house in SE Portland. We used Living Room Realty.
Hello, my wife and I are considering moving within the next year. We love the Lake Oswego area, though I doubt we could afford it. Any similar neighborhood alternatives that you know of?
Try Oregon City it’s close to Lake Oswego or Tualatin
West Linn or Happy Valley are beautiful
How about working @ PDX
AND POSSIBLY USING TRAIN FOR COMMUTE ?
THANKS, M
What part of Portland do u recommend for someone that don't have a lot of money? I'm buying a Bike for commuting around the city
Im just visiting right now this is like my 5th day here and one thing I can tell you is, you really don't need a car here. EVERYONE walks/bikes/uses public transit. Even the people who own cars.
Gentrification has some negativity associated with it, not sure that’s the best way to promote specific areas. But the truth is the truth just interesting way to describe the place as a realtor.
He mentions gentrification in many of his older videos too like it's a good thing. I guess it depends on who your audience is.
Gentrification is great. Taking crappy neighborhoods and making them nicer, raising the native residences’ home values, raising the quality of life, decreasing crime, and a higher standard of living is all a positive. This is how you fix and clean up third world conditions.
Otherwise, crime and lack of opportunity would persist and the area would just rot.
@@AssNuggett
So displacing the working class, seniors on fixed incomes and PoC good for who? You want a class war?
Btw, crime is way up in "gentrified" neighborhoods in Portland, chew on that a bit.
@@AssNuggett property taxes go up and then they native residences can't keep their homes due to unaffordability.
@@noeminoemi1350 then they can rent their house out and start generating passive income and start the path towards being financially independent.
If I work in beaverton, is living in happy valley a good idea?
It’ll be 45min to an hour weekdays
no, I would recommend staying in Beaverton because it's much of the same vibe as Happy Valley without having to commute across town/through downtown. Check out Cedar Mills.
Brutal rush hour .... too far :(
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which are the safest areas with independent shops, ability to rent a small house, and beautiful trees?
All inner city neighborhoods, silly.
@@tombskater3000 what
I love your video. As a Portland native and long time CA resident who has recently moved back, can I give you one piece of advice? When you say "Portland Metro" it's much more native to say "Portland Metro Area" instead :)
But he’s not native so the way he says it is just fine, and fitting.
What about hills bora
Hillsboro has a much more small town vibe than any of the portland metro spots. It has good shopping and it's easy to reach downtown on the lightrail (free park and rides at most stops) I work in Hillsboro near the Washington County Sheriff's Office Public Safety Training Center packaging cannabis oils.
I'm debating between Portland and Seattle. San Francisco will be too expensive. I'm trying to live comfortably
Not sure how Seattle is but you do not want to live in Portland. This city is a dump
@@rufus5208 I agree Portland streets are dirty especially downtown I want to move to Eugene in the future. I will weigh my options
@Erik Alexander I will try Europe I have been wanting to live in a foreign land. I'm learning a lot about Southern Europe.
Great video! We are family of 4 with 2 girls 1 and 4. We followed bunch of your videos. We like lake oswego, west lynn, bethany, cedar mills, and happy valley. It's all over the map so I guess it really depends on where my wife finds her job. She works in healthcare. She doesn't like long commute... We'll watch more videos to try to understand portland metro better. Keep up the good work!
We're full, and not taking anymore new residents. Thanks for checking!
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Your scar looks better.
thanks ya i am surprised at how well it healed up!! Thanks for the comment!
The intro is much better!
First and foremost, if you are coming from California keep heading on up to Seattle. And If you do insist on stopping here maybe don’t bring the same short sighted ideals that got you to the point of needing California.
Edit: And just to show how bad things up here are, one of your realtors in the add sold meth to people in high school. Tell them about what happened to Ryan, Adam? And where brad Bolton is now? We had the same circle of people I can back this up with photos
This does sound familiar... YEAH! Grant. Class of '56. But my memory is a little fuzzy these days. I want receipts!
@@tombskater3000 gimme an email.
@@tombskater3000 it was class of 03 smart ass. I’ve got proof from 2017 tho. Dude cooked in a house and killed the dog plus gave his nephew gray hair from fumes and the kid is 15.
Why would anyone want to live or have a business in Portland? The city is in chaos all the time. The city literally burned nightly over the summer.
false. do you live there? I do.
@@Dc-zu1ii uhhh I do too wanna explain the 100+ nights of riots? Portland is a dump!!!
@@MrAphilipe 100 nights of riots? What nonsense.
@@pacmanc8103 you.... saying it didn't happen? You live here? Must be nice to be so clueless.
@@Dc-zu1ii yup I do. Stop watching cnn.
I'm old now, been disabled all my life. I lived 'n had a small yet successful professional firm in Portland, Oregon until 2005. In 2005, anyone with a 10th grade education could see: Portland was heading for an irreversible & terrible decline and the "Good ole boy" corrupt government was the cause ....I moved a long way away. Portland was thee most beautiful & wonderful city I've visited or stayed in my world travels ...In the past 15 years, it's become an unsafe & dangerous city for disabled and elderly while government authorizes & agencies are too lazy to do their jobs. Government throughout most of Oregon, blames society while they sit 'n scratch their butts doing nothing. Local & state DA's shuffle papers, hide and/or loose over 8,000 criminal cases of elder crimes while the elderly are being abused & exploited. Far wonder the place is a mess. Rome burns while Oregon's & Portland's government crumbles. PLUS ...anyone who speaks the truth is destroyed. If your from California, you'll fit right in with Portland, Oregon's society.