Hey, I'm considering moving to Portland for work.?
I'm a liberal minded, atheistic red stater trying to escape the crap ball of a state in which I currently live. I interviewed with a company in Portland and will have a job offer soon but I've heard that it is an unfriendly, hostile city. Clearly, I'll be visiting before accepting the offer. Would you say it's a friendly city? Where should I visit when I visit in terms of restaurants, hotels, etc? I love Mexican (Tex-Mex or authentic, don't really care) and pizza. Thanks!
Portland - 6 Answers
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Answer 1 :
If you are talking about Portland OR then i can tell you that it is not hostile at all. Everyone here is very chill, and the best part, like 95% of us are liberal. Move here, it's awesome. Downtown is very awesome, there are a lot of good hotels in the pearl district and then you can go to the waterfront to hang. There are a ton of really good restaurants downtown also, just pick one.
Answer 2 :
Stay away. Portland is poison to all who come here. No work. No night life. Nothing to do that doesnt cost an arm and a leg. The snootiest, most pretentious people outside of Hollywood. The worst gangs outside of compton. Your chances of getting laid are close to zero and your chances of getting shot are about 100% Evil cops, crooked judges and unions that run everything. And the rest of oregon is just one big forest fire waiting to happen. Eugene corvallis area is full of twits and strights dont have a chance. You are much better off just staying where you are. You'll have a better, more profitable and more fulfilling life. Dont come to Portland. Or Oregon. Stay home. Unless you are a rich tourist with tons of money and a return ticket.
Answer 3 :
for mexican food for sure juan colorado its a chain of restaurants all over portland. As for your hostil city thing well, iv been living here for about 10 year and there is alot to do here and no poeple problems yet.
Answer 4 :
95% of the people on Portland YA are teens from middle class and upper class homes. Their view of Portland is limited to their neighborhood and school. Portland has a population of 672,000 people, but it is contigious with several other cities, and all cities combined have a population of over 1,500,000 people. Over 1/3 of Oregon's population (3,600,000) lives in the Greater Portland Area. Oregon has the second highest unemployment rate in the U.S. If you find a job, hang on to it, you won't find another. Oregon also proudly lays claim to the title of having the most homeless people in the U.S. Portland has two classes of people, the upper elite who call themselves liberal, but demonstrate conservative values by ignoring the homeless and poor. Most of the upper class won't even admit the homeless and poor exist in Portland, so nothing is ever done about the problem. The upper class elites also beieve they are the only people qualified to know what is best for the rest of the country, and socially stick together, ignoring the poor and have nots. Portland has a large number of have nots, who sleep on the side walks, in make shift tents and camps under the bridges and in clumps of trees and vegetation around the outskirts of town. Current estimates by social service agencies reveal 18% of Portlands population is underfed. Portland had a serious gang problem in the North East area, but it has died down now that most gang bangers have grown up and have families to support. Some of the upper elite have torn down the affordable housing neighborhoods in the N.E. and built nice new homes there, so the N.E. is a mix of older affordable homes and newer upper class homes which also reduces the gang activity. Mixed with the upper elite and the have nots, is the nut cases that stand in the middle of the street and yell obscenities at people driving by for "using all the gas in the world" or some other nut case cause.
Answer 5 :
Portland is one of the most ambitious culinary cities in the nation, due to the inexpensive cost of opening restaurants here, according to the NY Times. So finding tex mex or authentic mexican shouldn't be too hard. As for the people being hostile? Occasionally I get the rude driver on the highway, but for the most part people do the "courtesy wave" when you let them cut in. People are nice. Most of us aren't from Portland, but transplants. It's liberal here, but only in Portland proper. The outlying areas tend to be more conservative. Yes we have a high homeless population. But everyone I know, including myself, has given money to the guy on the street at one time or other. The unemployment right now is high, so definitely if you move here, plan on staying in your job. Real estate right now is very affordable, like every where else, so you would get a good deal on a house or condo. I've walked a mile from the bus stop home at 11 at night, and never once felt like I wasn't safe. There is a night life here, but not very big. Most people are into their coffee, so the day life is more active. Powell's bookstore down town. You have to see that when you get here, the place is HUGE!
Answer 6 :
Oregon has the second highest unemployment rate in the U.S.Oregon also proudly lays claim to the title of having the most homeless people in the U.S. Tons of "Choose to be homeless" do to drug habbit and gutter punks all over the street. It is not that they are homeless they don't want to spend any money but on H Drug. It the sq is portand's living room than all the fountains must be Portland's bathtub for the TONS of people living on the street. I thought that the joblessness thing was a bunch of hog wash... boy was I wrong and I work in healthcare! No jobs here.
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