Portland = Overrated

Portland is only at the beginning of the gentrification process. Lots of beautiful craftsman style homes that have been greatly neglected. The homeless are everywhere too. Give the yuppies ten years or so to fix the town and it'll be clean and nice again. Maybe we can also get some fed money to fix the bottleneck freeways.

I would've mentioned the homeless - But dang, they were the most well-behaved homeless people I've ever seen. Stayed out of your way too.

Bless that auto-correct.

The worst part about Portland to me are the pedestrians. They walk in front of every car regardless of whether there is a stop sign or cross walk, and then they get all indignant if you don't slam on the brakes and wave them through.

Coming from the east coast it was utterly nerve-racking to try to drive anywhere in town.

Weather is fabulous 12 months out of the year for running but somehow they complain about it.

WhatTheHeck wrote:

-The highlight was visiting nearby city Tiger. Nice neighborhoods & scenery.

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You mean Tigard?

If visiting Tigard was the highlight of your trip than I am sorry.

Cubism Cubed wrote:

WhatTheHeck wrote:

-The highlight was visiting nearby city Tiger. Nice neighborhoods & scenery.

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You mean Tigard?

If visiting Tigard was the highlight of your trip than I am sorry.

Yea- I guess Tigart. I only heard the name- not read it.

I was entering a clean neighborhood by a wide river, with a small mountain & homes on the other side.

I think the food is very good there, and well-priced. People are nice.

Portland has an ugly downtown that they pretentiously tried to make look small-towny by using a bunch of bricks, or pseudo-bricks, I'm not sure which. It all looks fake, non-descript and unsettlingly uniform. It has few important landmarks to give character to any particular area.

Nothing in Portland is in any way special, it is just an agglomeration of people at the mouth of the Willamette river feeding off the transit of goods too and from trans-pacific countries. It has no famed product like the Philadelphia cheesesteak or the New York minute. There isn't a Portland anything and there never will be because the earthquake will sink it before it can develop one.

Portland has the best PEDs in the world.

OP should go to a Timbers game.

His point are confusing. If anything, complain about the high price of housing and rent. Complain about the ridiculous traffic.

Portland is definitely OVERPRICED now for what you get and for the climate. It isn't totally overrated though. But if it gets any more crowded, it will be...

Portland is truly awful. Please don't move here, especially if you are from Cali, it ALWAYS rains here - seriously, no sunshine ever.

PS - please don't move here! It sux!

PDX SUX wrote:

Portland is truly awful. Please don't move here, especially if you are from Cali, it ALWAYS rains here - seriously, no sunshine ever.

PS - please don't move here! It sux!

No need to discourage sarcastically.

It actually does suck compared to California. It is just as crowded, worse infrastructure (more traffic), prices a bit less, but not right next to ocean, not sunny, etc...

If you're saying Portland traffic is worse than cities in Cali, it's a safe bet you've never been to either.

How can anybody on this board complain about Portland or Oregon as places? No other city or state in US supports track and field more.

Look at the events in Oregon this year

IAAF World Indoor

USATF National Cross Championships

Pre Classic

NCAA Champiomships

Olympic Trials

Portland Track Festival

Track Town Pro League Championship

Track Town wrote:

How can anybody on this board complain about......

You must be new here :)

Chewbacca wrote:

If you're saying Portland traffic is worse than cities in Cali, it's a safe bet you've never been to either.

If you cal it Cali you clearly are not from here either.

I like Portland. But like anywhere there's positives & negatives. Drugs, crazy white people and being about 10-20 years behind the current trends are a few negatives.

As for the "roses" comment you know it's December right? In case you didn't know plants die in the winter...

I've lived in inner East Portland for a long time now. I generally can't argue with that. But then the question arises. What does that say about the rest of America that so many people want to live in Portland?

ryan foreman wrote:

What does that say about the rest of America that so many people want to live in Portland?

I assume that's sarcasm. Who wants to live in Portland, apart from the San Francisco hippies who drove up for cheap housing in the 70's and pretentious white people chasing the 'hipster dream'? If I didn't live in Seattle I'd say the big earthquake can't come soon enough.

Congrats on the MLS cup victory by the way.

Yeah, it sucks here, you'd hate it. Please don't move here.

Portland, OR is the home of extreme athlete Dane Rauschenberg.

Mr. Rauschenberg could live anywhere in the country and chooses to live in Portland.

Also, Mr. Raushenberg, in addition to being the author of 3 books (presently working on his 4th, due out in 2016) is the holder of the best known time for the marathon distance aboard a cruise ship in the Pacific Ocean.