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Hello. I joined this forum specifically for advice regarding moving to Portland.

I am a soon to be 34 year old single male. I live in Los Angeles currently. Lived here for 16 years and want to switch it up. I visited Portland last June and loved it. Very beautiful city, clean, great food, cool people. Am thinking about making the move.

I own a house down here, and would probably rent it out and rent an apartment up there. Can you guys recommend some neighborhoods? My rent max would probably be $1,450 a month. I would like an area that has good nightlife and beautiful women haha. Not the most important...basically just a nice, safe area that has restaurants, bars, stores, etc. within walking distance and/or short driving distance.

I take it Portland is all about the outdoors, I would buy a bike when I got up there. I heard everyone has a bike haha. I love hiking and did some trails around Multnomah Falls. Very cool. And I personally love rain so rain doesn't bother me in the slightest.

Thanks for your help.
 
Congrats on moving, even though everyone else will tell you to keep your Cali-ass down south. Portland (PDX) is a great place to be, I have lived there on and off for over 30 years, although now I live in Eastern Washington.

Love food and nightlife, the neighborhood for you is - every fucking neighborhood. This city is built on food and gluttony, beer, wine, pot and booze. I love the close in SE area, it's in your price range, beautiful, tons of bars and restaurants, and a real community in your age bracket.
 
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Congrats on moving, even though everyone else will tell you to keep your Cali-ass down south. Portland (PDX) is a great place to be, I have lived there on and off for over 30 years, although now I live in Eastern Washington.

Love food and nightlife, the neighborhood for you is - every fucking neighborhood. This city is built on food and gluttony, beer, wine, pot and booze. I love the close in SE area, it's in your price range, beautiful, tons of bars and restaurants, and a real community in your age bracket.
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Dude. You should have had him disown the L*kers, BEFORE giving out any secrets....
 
Look into Mississippi Ave in NE Portland dude. Not the safest area but bomb restaurants.
 
It's not just the AIDS water you have to watch out for, it also causes a spontaneous growth about men's faces that I can only assume is a fungal infection that looks a lot like the Spanish Moss you see hanging from fir trees.
 
On a serious note, if you like the sun this might not be the place for you. Come visit in November for a week and then extrapolate that weather out to 8 months out of the year. If you still dig it, then consider that your baptism/initiation.
 
Ledge Caliber said:
Hello. I joined this forum specifically for advice regarding moving to Portland.

I am a soon to be 34 year old single male. I live in Los Angeles currently. Lived here for 16 years and want to switch it up. I visited Portland last June and loved it. Very beautiful city, clean, great food, cool people. Am thinking about making the move.

I own a house down here, and would probably rent it out and rent an apartment up there. Can you guys recommend some neighborhoods? My rent max would probably be $1,450 a month. I would like an area that has good nightlife and beautiful women haha. Not the most important...basically just a nice, safe area that has restaurants, bars, stores, etc. within walking distance and/or short driving distance.

I take it Portland is all about the outdoors, I would buy a bike when I got up there. I heard everyone has a bike haha. I love hiking and did some trails around Multnomah Falls. Very cool. And I personally love rain so rain doesn't bother me in the slightest.

Thanks for your help.
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nightlife will probably be in private homes...same with beautiful women so skip the apartment and rent a room with a couple female roommates...save time and the women will party with your roommates...problem solved!
 
Haha thanks everyone. I can sense some sarcasm. When I was there last year, a few people talked about preserving the small city feel to Portland. I could tell they didn't want it to blow up in population. I don't blame them. The thing is, with global warming and droughts, people like me are going to get wise and start moving north where the air is clean and the water is plentiful!

By the way, I was born and raised in Maryland (see avatar). I sort of hate LA, amazed I've been here so long. If I didn't go to Occidental College I never would've come here. Crowded, dirty, expensive, and the worst traffic in the world. Every day driving to and from work a small part of my soul dies. I hate the Lakers and every sports team here. Wizards, Redskins, Orioles, Capitals, Terrapins, and Hoyas for life! :smiley-smiley-049:

I liked downtown Portland a lot, which is where my hotel was. I also went a restaurant called Tin Shed in NE Portland that blew my mind. Some of the best food I've ever had, no lie.

I like the Blazers and their roster. Just remembered you guys drafted Jake Layman. Good pick, he is versatile. Good shot for a big guy, good slasher. Needs to work on his handles a bit, and get stronger. Spend more time in the paint as opposed to beyond the arc. I'd like to see Noah Vonleh get better. He was highly touted in college, he's only 20 years old.

Thanks for the help, feel free to keep the advice coming.
 
Milwaukie area is convenient to get to the city from and I liked it years ago when I lived there...for a single guy it'd be a pretty good choice. The locals don't mind a new neighbor but just be aware that the first rule of Portland is...when in LA nobody talks about Portland!
 
Around NW 23rd and near PGE park or whatever its called now would be good. Youd be priced out of pearl district probably. Hawthorne is cool too.

34 is kind of old for portland if ur not balling it up
 
Haha no I'm not Steve Blake, but he is one of my favorite Terps ever along with Juan Dixon. That 2002 championship was the best sports moment of my life. He did pretty well in Portland from what I remember.

If 34 is too old for Portland, what cities is 34 still considered young? Probably none :-( I'm 33 until 8/14! And I may not be balling it up, but I've done pretty well for myself.

There were actually a decent amount of black people at Occidental when I was there. I am white.

What about Seattle? Probably way more expensive huh? I love how Oregon has no sales tax. Not sure about not pumping your own gas though...

Just noticed you are in LA, El Presidente. I live in Torrance, what about you? I tend to be critical of LA but it is a fun city.
 
Ledge Caliber said:
Hello. I joined this forum specifically for advice regarding moving to Portland.

I am a soon to be 34 year old single male. I live in Los Angeles currently. Lived here for 16 years and want to switch it up. I visited Portland last June and loved it. Very beautiful city, clean, great food, cool people. Am thinking about making the move.

I own a house down here, and would probably rent it out and rent an apartment up there. Can you guys recommend some neighborhoods? My rent max would probably be $1,450 a month. I would like an area that has good nightlife and beautiful women haha. Not the most important...basically just a nice, safe area that has restaurants, bars, stores, etc. within walking distance and/or short driving distance.

I take it Portland is all about the outdoors, I would buy a bike when I got up there. I heard everyone has a bike haha. I love hiking and did some trails around Multnomah Falls. Very cool. And I personally love rain so rain doesn't bother me in the slightest.

Thanks for your help.
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Nightlife? Women? Haven't you been paying attention to the Blazers free agency issues
 
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I think former Governor, Tom McCall, said it best. "Come visit, don't stay."
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It wasn't just a line. It was a group called the Tom McCall society. My grandfather was a high ranking official in Portland and Oregon politics in general. He told me he and other "heavyweight honkies" would go around the country trying to spread the notion that Oregon was a terrible place to live. "Come visit, don't stay" was there motto. It obviously worked for a long time. Not so much now.
 
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PDX is a fun place, a much better city than Seattle, which next to LA has to have some of the worst traffic anywhere. PDX traffic is getting worse, but still, as long as you don't live in Vancouver or do something like that, then traffic isn't too bad. My suggestion is pay attention to the MAX (light rail) lines and find a place to live that's either real easy to commute from either by rail or bike (maybe bus, but ahhh, kind of sucks). I love close in SE and NE cause the food is great, nightlife (If you like NW nightlife) is great and biking is a breeze. I lived around 30th and Belmont for a while, and at one point didn't get in my car for 4 months except to go on vacation, because everything was so accessible. Fuck LA, right in the smoggy ass, and don't put yourself in a position where you have to treat PDX like LA, spending your life in traffic.
 
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