What is your occupation ?
And don't tell me Internet running guru / journalist .
What is your occupation ?
And don't tell me Internet running guru / journalist .
only 50% appreciation? Mine has almost tripled in value in only 5 years! Real estate is crazy here right now.
OP, I've been hearing Pittsburg is the next Portland (granted I've been hearing that for 5 years). Cheap housing, some art scene, etc.
Boring, OR
Portland is so hip it's already the next Portland.
SEDave wrote:
only 50% appreciation? Mine has almost tripled in value in only 5 years! Real estate is crazy here right now.
OP, I've been hearing Pittsburg is the next Portland (granted I've been hearing that for 5 years). Cheap housing, some art scene, etc.
I was in PGH for the marathon earlier this year. The city was not that impressive but there were some hawt chix...especially a bunch with tats (chix without tats aren't hawt). For that reason alone I have a favorable impression of PGH but the next PDX it is not.
Location location wrote:
What is your occupation ?
And don't tell me Internet running guru / journalist .
No that's just on on the side, but did lead to my current position as a technical designer for Nike. Why do you ask?
It looks promising but this:"Bellingham was reported to have the lowest average sunshine amount of any city in the US." — not the best result.
Flagpole wrote:
found it WA wrote:Bellingham, WA. No joke.
^This
Shhhhh - Dont tell people!
Sorry folks - you don't want to move here...nothing to see or do.
There isn't 30 breweries that actually have top chefs...there isn't 3 national Forrest in your back yard, there isn't the blue ridge parkway, Arboretum, nor the Mountains to Sea trail...
There isn't hippies, street performers, world class chefs, and mom & pop shops...
There isn't sub cultures, counter cultures, nor life music everywhere, every night...
Just stay away...
Ufck that. Wet, dank, rainy, cold... Portland OR sucks.
The rising popularity of "trendy" cities is an interesting psycho-social phenomenon. I think about it all the time.
jamin wrote:
The rising popularity of "trendy" cities is an interesting psycho-social phenomenon. I think about it all the time.
Don't you live in Seattle? You may be too young to realize but Seattle was the hot city of the early 90s. The grunge scene known as the Seattle Sound drew a crowd just as Portland did 15 years later.
Cities will always change and it is inevitable that there is another city coming of age right now. Whoever finds it first makes bank.
Des Moines, Iowa.
Everyone is moving to Colorado. It's hot dry and crowded.
AsheVILLAIN wrote:
Shhhhh - Dont tell people!
Sorry folks - you don't want to move here...nothing to see or do.
There isn't 30 breweries that actually have top chefs...there isn't 3 national Forrest in your back yard, there isn't the blue ridge parkway, Arboretum, nor the Mountains to Sea trail...
There isn't hippies, street performers, world class chefs, and mom & pop shops...
There isn't sub cultures, counter cultures, nor life music everywhere, every night...
Just stay away...
I've been to NC and to Ashville, you have nothing to worry about. It's disgusting there in the summer and the majority of people in that state are evil bigots. No one with a brain wants to live there. Sure you may get morons migrating there but the majority of people are smart enough to steer clear.
No one likes evil bigots wrote:
AsheVILLAIN wrote:Shhhhh - Dont tell people!
Sorry folks - you don't want to move here...nothing to see or do.
There isn't 30 breweries that actually have top chefs...there isn't 3 national Forrest in your back yard, there isn't the blue ridge parkway, Arboretum, nor the Mountains to Sea trail...
There isn't hippies, street performers, world class chefs, and mom & pop shops...
There isn't sub cultures, counter cultures, nor life music everywhere, every night...
Just stay away...
I've been to NC and to Ashville, you have nothing to worry about. It's disgusting there in the summer and the majority of people in that state are evil bigots. No one with a brain wants to live there. Sure you may get morons migrating there but the majority of people are smart enough to steer clear.
You must have mistaken Asheville for Charlotte or Raleigh...that's where the conservatives live...remember even our own Governor called Asheville "the cesspool of sin." And we are DAMN proud of being a little weird.
Disgusting in the summer? Oh you mean high of 85 and low of 60 every day...and the higher you go the cooler it gets, GROSS!!!
None of those cities listed have public transportation that can come close to rivalling PDX and its light rail. (I don't count SF because it's not the next anything)
Well, the question was not whether PDX (where I live)is any good, it's where the next hipster-magnet will be. SF - done. Seattle - done. PDX - on a roll but in 10-15 yrs - done. All these three will be fine for residents, but too expensive/clogged to move to the decent bits. For runners, no other area of the country matches the NW (Real Runners are NOT sun bunnies). Every town claims a 'growing tech hub and thriving Jazz scene' Yeeeah. Frankly, I do not see anything remotely resembling SF/Seattle/PDX for 'hipness', but the media needs a darling, and hipsters need cheaper digs, so I'll plump for Nashville.