Just an observation

[ljtourist]

Things that Portland seems to have more of than Seattle:

• Food trucks
• Light Rail
• TRON-styled video game arcades
• flatness
• aggressive people on the street

Comments

[kimuchi]

* Strippers (I only know the girl-stripper situation so not useful to you)
* Houses for cheap

Unfortunately not so much on the:
* Jobs

[ljtourist]

I'm told that the boy stripper situation is also very good. I've been curious to see for myself, but I'm not sure if I would enjoy it. That one in Phoenix was kinda fun, but that may have been the fact that a bunch of people took me, and it was a new experience. IDK.

Are houses there cheap? I know property taxes are crazy high. Maybe needs some investigation.

Yeah, unemployment is bad, but I hear that things are starting to look up in the greater Portland area.

[altf4ljdrama]

If one is moving to the suburbs or renting a run down house in a nice neighborhood, housing is cheap.

Also, I'm able to afford a one bedroom in modern construction downtown with my own washer and dryer here. In Seattle I had to have a housemate and split a 2 br/1 bath.

[ljtourist]

Hm. I did some peeking on Redfin, and wasn't blown away by prices downtown. Things which would be listed for around $450k in Seattle were around $375k in Portland, and property taxes were about 30% higher there. Rentals in the Pearl District seem to only be about 10-15% lower than here also. I'm not blown away by the difference. *shrug* Maybe things are different outside the core.

[ctseawa]

Flavor Spot again?

[ljtourist]

No, actually. They were closed at the time, this was a competing waffle place, except not really. More details later.

[ljtourist]

Ha! I did not know that, but Stan and I weren't very close. I did meet him and Ali once a few years ago, but have not been in touch.