OT Something nice I read about Portland

[Blazer4ever]

There was an article in a newspaper here in Israel, by a reporter that was visiting in San Francisco. He said it's still beautiful but has gotten way more expansive and that it's not the same place for young people, that it became a city for rich people and doesn't have the same colture and appeal it had in the 60s.
He then said that to find vibrant colture and that buzz of SF in the 60s you'd have to look elsewhere and the city he mentioned: Portland, Oregon.

 

[GriLtCheeZ]

There was an article in a newspaper here in Israel, by a reporter that was visiting in San Francisco. He said it's still beautiful but has gotten way more expansive and that it's not the same place for young people, that it became a city for rich people and doesn't have the same colture and appeal it had in the 60s.
He then said that to find vibrant colture and that buzz of SF in the 60s you'd have to look elsewhere and the city he mentioned: Portland, Oregon.

I'd say Portland is more like present day San Francisco than 60's SF. Portland isn't as expensive as SF, but the young people here are being priced out of the city fast, by people who can't afford to live in SF anymore. Any unique culture that Portland has left is fading away fast.

 

[Minstrel]

Time to move to Austin, Texas if you want to keep it weird.

 

[MarAzul]

There was an article in a newspaper here in Israel, by a reporter that was visiting in San Francisco. He said it's still beautiful but has gotten way more expansive and that it's not the same place for young people, that it became a city for rich people and doesn't have the same colture and appeal it had in the 60s.
He then said that to find vibrant colture and that buzz of SF in the 60s you'd have to look elsewhere and the city he mentioned: Portland, Oregon.

umm, Staying at the St Francis or drinks at the Top of the Mark were out of reach in the 60s too. I plan to anchor MarAzul in the Aquatic park though, and enjoy soon.

 

[MickZagger]

I'd say Portland is more like present day San Francisco than 60's SF. Portland isn't as expensive as SF, but the young people here are being priced out of the city fast, by people who can't afford to live in SF anymore. Any unique culture that Portland has left is fading away fast.

This.

The house in North Portland that my parents bought as their first house in 1984 for a whopping $82,000, sold last year for $400+ k. How does this happen? The house was in shitty shape, but one block away from the bluff.

I want to live in the city, but buying in the burbs is the only reasonable option. I don't want a fixer upper.

 

[MickZagger]

Time to move to Austin, Texas if you want to keep it weird.

Where do you live?

 

[EL PRESIDENTE]

This.

The house in North Portland that my parents bought as their first house in 1984 for a whopping $82,000, sold last year for $400+ k. How does this happen? The house was in shitty shape, but one block away from the bluff.

I want to live in the city, but buying in the burbs is the only reasonable option. I don't want a fixer upper.

Live in a small apartment/condo in a cool area. Living in the burbs is a death sentence for the single male. Seriously, do you want to be going to hang out at Best Buy when your bored because that's the only thing to do?

 

[EL PRESIDENTE]

http://www.realtor.com/realestatean...day-St-Apt-305_Portland_OR_97232_M12193-09557

Here ya go. Right in the middle of it all. And you don't have little annoying kids and dorky parents everywhere you turn.

 

[MickZagger]

http://www.realtor.com/realestatean...day-St-Apt-305_Portland_OR_97232_M12193-09557

Here ya go. Right in the middle of it all. And you don't have little annoying kids and dorky parents everywhere you turn.

700 sq ft? Yikes.

 

[Minstrel]

Where do you live?

Austin, Texas. Why?

 

[Blazer4ever]

Time to move to Austin, Texas if you want to keep it weird.

I remember seeing a Simpsons episode when people from Portland came to live in Springfield. At first it was just one dude and later they flooded Springfield, they made Springfield 'weird' and even changed the weather, made it cloudy and rainy. But as they made Springfield hip and the press started talking about it as the new place-to-be they decided it's not cool anymore and left...

 

[MickZagger]

Austin, Texas. Why?

Reasonably priced? I remember on your BBF days you said you lived in Palo Alto or something.

 

[MickZagger]

 

[Minstrel]

Reasonably priced? I remember on your BBF days you said you lived in Palo Alto or something.

Oh yeah, I was joking. I still live in the Bay Area, though I also travel a lot to Seattle and San Diego so I spend a lot of time in those places. I just have a friend who's from Texas and said that Austin prides itself on being "weird."

 

[EL PRESIDENTE]

700 sq ft? Yikes.

Why do you need so much room bro?

http://www.theminimalists.com/minimalism/

Less things = happiness.
Throw away what you don't need.

 

[The Professional Fan]

I'd say Portland is more like present day San Francisco than 60's SF. Portland isn't as expensive as SF, but the young people here are being priced out of the city fast, by people who can't afford to live in SF anymore. Any unique culture that Portland has left is fading away fast.

All of this.

 

[BlazerWookee]

I heard that Portland hipsters all burned their mouths because they drank Stumptown Coffee before it was cool.

 

[EL PRESIDENTE]

sorry bros, Portland is boring as fuck. Its a place where a fucking Bruno Mars concert is a major cultural must-see event.

Cool nature, some kooky stores, but they have those everywhere now. Its a good place to raise kids, its pretty safe everywhere, the air is clean. But cool and edgy and interesting? Not.

SF has way more shit to do, more culture, Portland is a cracka azz city.

 

[crandc]

Hey Minstrel, I am trying to decide between four SF restaurants - all great Yelp reviews, all Top 100. Do you know Bay restaurant scene perchance?
Pabu, Akiko, Boulevard, Kokkari

 

[EL PRESIDENTE]

LA is the new FRISCO.

 

[THE HCP]

I'm not leaving inner city Portland. We could sell our place, and for what things are going for in my hood, we could move to the burbs and get a McMansion. Rather live in a 97 year old fixer upper though. Right now we couldn't afford a house in our own neighborhood, so we just refinanced and are going to do a ton of projects. We'll get our money back, but it just blows me away how much cribs are going for. This is my neighborhood below......

 

[EL PRESIDENTE]

bougie causin panic

 

[ripcityboy]

This reminded me most of my experience of living in SF:

 

[EL PRESIDENTE]

This reminded me most of my experience of living in SF:

So Portland.

 

[ripcityboy]

So Portland.

Yeah. Weird. I moved home and California just slowly followed. Like an evil force in a John Carpenter film. I still love this town though. I grew up here and I'll die here. The real estate boom will bust some time.

 

[EL PRESIDENTE]

Yeah. Weird. I moved home and California just slowly followed. Like an evil force in a John Carpenter film. I still love this town though. I grew up here and I'll die here. The real estate boom will bust some time.

I just remember high school at Jesuit being all farts and gleeking

 

[EL PRESIDENTE]

Portland doesn't have The Marina..the best fucking hood in Frisco bro.

 

[ripcityboy]

I just remember high school at Jesuit being all farts and gleeking

Gleeking? That was middle school for me. High school was more wedgies and arm burns.

 

[EL PRESIDENTE]

Gleeking? That was middle school for me. High school was more wedgies and arm burns.

Portland was so much cooler when the jack shacks were all over town

 

[ripcityboy]

Portland was so much cooler when the jack shacks were all over town

The Aladdin Theater was home to the longest running showing of Deep Throat in the US. Which when you think of how long some if those mob-connected jack shacks in the East ran that film, is quite impressive. Perverts were actually considered perverts back then. Now they got all sort of sex clubs and being "weird" really isn't that weird at all.