h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

I visited Portland a couple summers ago and it didn't seem that bad. It had a good downtown and super quiet light rail. There seemed to be some community. I noted the suburbs as being a draw back, but I had hoped the city limit building restriction would stop sprawl and might mean it's as bad as it's going to get now.

So, I was thinking of moving there because it seemed a good place without too much suburban sprawl slave to the car life style. Am I wrong? Should I avoid Portland like the plague?

There were some cool bars like Shanghai Tunnel, Satrycon, The Sandy Hut. And, some cool records shops and a big alternative clothing store. Anyway the place seemed to have potencial.

I've seen a lot of places and most cities have it much worse as far as surburban sprawl and walmartization of the landscape.

Can I get some feedback from someone who knows Portland, OR better.

JefreeRebelStar

I grew up there. I wish I could move back. If the cost of living was the same as it is here in Georgia, then I'd like to move out there. I could definitly make a lot more money.

I have lived in portland for about 2 1/2 years now, and I like it . The cost of housing is a bit high, but there are always some kind of schemes in the worrks to try and fix that. On the upside, there are lots of trees and plants(not as many as I'd like, but I'm weird). There is also an excellent supply of reasonably priced local beers, all of which are better than Bud or the like. Overall I like Portland better than anywhere else I've been, and am trying to change the bits that I don't like.

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manda

No need to apologize. This is the same guy, only I've changed my name slightly, and I had to open a new account because i've forgotten My username and password to the old one. I'll remember them this time, though.

OK glad to have you back again

manda

I think it's a great place to live. It's got great public transportation, pleasant downtown, and the suburbs are fairly easy to avoid. I love the fact that there are lots of trees, and anytime you can get ahold of a car, it's and hour and a half to the beach or 45 minutes to the columbia river gorge (windsurfing capitol of the world), about an hour to mt. hood, and about two hours out to the desert, if nature stuff appeals to you. Definitely has a ton of natural beauty. And the urban growth boundary is still in effect. Doesn't rain as much as in Seattle, and we have really great drinking water.

Hey there, I live in Portland and think it really rocks. I'm female, 31, and run a local BDSM group. I've been to lots of places around the US and overall PDX has best cummulative score yet from my city rating. Feel free to email me. I'll post my junk mail account here so I don't get my real address on any lists. Just put something in the subject about H2G2.

Robyn
TNG Diva

Duh,

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Robyn
TNG Diva

Are you certain that you typed the address correctly? I can't seem t oget it to wrk.

Portland Does not suck.
it will occasionaly spit you out. and leave you packing for wence you came. but.
I lived in portland off and on half my life.
I been serveral other citys and nothing comparires.
we might not have the best of anything or the most notable of everthing. but theres little we lack, it's that bigcity in a small town feel that has made this my home,.

I meet verry few people who have spent anytime here that did not like this town thats saying a lot.

you got to love a town that you dont actuly have to own a car to get around

Portland does not really suck. Check out OMSI (especially if you can take a kid). GO TO POWELLS--they give you a map so you can get around. Near that is the Classical Chineese garden. The zoo is nice, and they have open air concerts in the summer. While you are in that neighborhood, there is the Japaneese garden, and the timber museum. Sometime in the summer Mt. Hood Community College hosts Scottish Games. The museums are cool. The parks are really special. The Albina neighborhood (close-in on the East bank) used to be called Little Russia, and is being re-discovered--it has a really terriffic small-business oriented personality. See how the "other half" lived in the nineteen -teens at the Pittock Mansion. There is a great architectural salvage outfit in the Northeast. And a reproduction fittings place close in on the East bank. A classic movie palace hosts old cult classics and does frequent Rocky Horror showings. Hiking, biking, sightseeing, multitudes of ethnic eateries, and friendly residents make any venture a fun one. A good bet is Sunday Brunch at Shenanigan's, in the Port of Portland area. It's a short trip to year-round snow, and the beach, and Mt. St. Helens (an ACTIVE volcano). In the State of Oregon exist the fourth-purest lake in the world, lava beds where the moon landing astronauts trained, archeological sites where shoes dating back 10,000 years have been found, world-class whitewater, world-class skiing, hot springs, crater lake (inside another extinct volcano), world-class Shakespearean Festival, arts festivals, the oldest established settlement West of the Mississippi in North America, a river that comes from underground springs full-force, gold rush ghost towns, the Painted Hills, Hell's Canyon, the Peterson Rock Gardens, breathtaking ocean cliffs, and, OH YEAH, beer.

Been living in P-town and/or it's "extended area" most of my life. IMNSHO, the worst thing about the place is 1) it's only anarchy oriented sub-culture is of the left-leaning variety, /an ethic dominated by snobby authoritarian pseudo-intellectuals, /2) Hard/non-psychedelic drug culture has an extremely good strong-hold here, particularly meth/opiates, /until recently, /least, crack (crack-heads r the least problematic of the hard-drug sub-culture of the area). I've had to spend half a life-time, coming up w/good counter-moves to the common P-town games. It is not a good place to b a non-Marx influenced counter-cultural figure. We just haven't a right-wing rebellious group of any standing, here. Wish it were different.