Re: Anybody from Oregon (Portland)
The problem is everything is becoming over populated now, even Oregon City is growing so fast that it cant support its own growth right now. Tualatin has taken a huge step from where it was years ago but its not that bad yet. Lake Oswego is a nice area but its also where the housing market takes a huge swing up in price, West Linn is the same thing but they are more cookie cutter houses that you see, ie, Arbor Homes etc. Beaverton isnt bad either but its biggest drawback is the traffic, the highways out there are brutal and they bottleneck from abour 4 PM until 8 PM everyday and for some reason they dont seem to be doing anything about it either.
In terms of schools, I base most of what Ive heard on the scores and whatnot coming back on national testing that is then reported and compared to the national average. I tried to find the info but was unsuccessful, but like I said, if memory serves me the schools didnt rank anywhere near the top at all and were mostly along the bottom.
Yeah, as much as I hate certain areas of Oregon I really dont want to live anywhere else in Oregon other then Portland. Ive been in Eugene, Corvallis, Bend and Redmond before they started to grow a little, Seaside/Astoria/Tillamook/Newport on the coast and I cant get away from the city life, I have to have the city right there or else Im bored all the time.
The job market is disgusting here and thats putting it lightly. I literally had to get a job with a company outside of the state just so I could avoid the hefty requirements places like Pizza Hut have on Assistant Manager positions. I used to be looking for nothing but retail management positions, assistant or otherwise, and they were requesting college degrees for those positions which I thought was completely insane. Who in their right mind begs, borrows and steals to get an education just so they can run and manage a Pizza Hut?
Im going to try and not make this into a sob story because its not meant to be one. My folks had a construction company and if you arent familiar with the way clients pay its normally they pay a certain percentage up front and then the remaining blance once the job is done. We constantly ran into folks who would pay the up front and then refuse to pay once the job was done, we did nothing wrong and had paperwork showing what was supposed to be done with pictures to prove it but Oregon always sided with the home owner, no matter the evidence. We owned rental property at one point and we lost that because of the incompetance of our lawyer and guess what the state did about that? Notta damn thing, they told us it was basically our fault, we lost the property completely thanks to the lawyer screwing us and this is just my own few personal stories but there are far more I could mention if I really felt like wasting hours typing on here, needless to say I have no faith in Oregon when it comes to small business'.
Like I said, its not all negative, there are positives to living here but there are certain things that drive me nuts, ie. small business protection and laws etc. I will never forget our Mayor years ago, Vera Katz, who wanted to build a apartment complex on the top of a tunnel on the highway, it was the nuttiest thing Ive ever heard and it seems like we always have people who are so hell bent on thinking outside the box that they basically go loony.
The problem is everything is becoming over populated now, even Oregon City is growing so fast that it cant support its own growth right now. Tualatin has taken a huge step from where it was years ago but its not that bad yet. Lake Oswego is a nice area but its also where the housing market takes a huge swing up in price, West Linn is the same thing but they are more cookie cutter houses that you see, ie, Arbor Homes etc. Beaverton isnt bad either but its biggest drawback is the traffic, the highways out there are brutal and they bottleneck from abour 4 PM until 8 PM everyday and for some reason they dont seem to be doing anything about it either.
In terms of schools, I base most of what Ive heard on the scores and whatnot coming back on national testing that is then reported and compared to the national average. I tried to find the info but was unsuccessful, but like I said, if memory serves me the schools didnt rank anywhere near the top at all and were mostly along the bottom.
Yeah, as much as I hate certain areas of Oregon I really dont want to live anywhere else in Oregon other then Portland. Ive been in Eugene, Corvallis, Bend and Redmond before they started to grow a little, Seaside/Astoria/Tillamook/Newport on the coast and I cant get away from the city life, I have to have the city right there or else Im bored all the time.
The job market is disgusting here and thats putting it lightly. I literally had to get a job with a company outside of the state just so I could avoid the hefty requirements places like Pizza Hut have on Assistant Manager positions. I used to be looking for nothing but retail management positions, assistant or otherwise, and they were requesting college degrees for those positions which I thought was completely insane. Who in their right mind begs, borrows and steals to get an education just so they can run and manage a Pizza Hut?
Im going to try and not make this into a sob story because its not meant to be one. My folks had a construction company and if you arent familiar with the way clients pay its normally they pay a certain percentage up front and then the remaining blance once the job is done. We constantly ran into folks who would pay the up front and then refuse to pay once the job was done, we did nothing wrong and had paperwork showing what was supposed to be done with pictures to prove it but Oregon always sided with the home owner, no matter the evidence. We owned rental property at one point and we lost that because of the incompetance of our lawyer and guess what the state did about that? Notta damn thing, they told us it was basically our fault, we lost the property completely thanks to the lawyer screwing us and this is just my own few personal stories but there are far more I could mention if I really felt like wasting hours typing on here, needless to say I have no faith in Oregon when it comes to small business'.
Like I said, its not all negative, there are positives to living here but there are certain things that drive me nuts, ie. small business protection and laws etc. I will never forget our Mayor years ago, Vera Katz, who wanted to build a apartment complex on the top of a tunnel on the highway, it was the nuttiest thing Ive ever heard and it seems like we always have people who are so hell bent on thinking outside the box that they basically go loony.
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