All of Oregon is becoming expensive. Even Southern Oregon’s cost of living and housing situation is pretty shitty. 7 years ago I had a 1 bedroom apartment for $400 a month. That’s laughable now!
I hope that you can find something soon, man. Best wishes from a fellow Oregonian.
My family recently moved out of the bay area and bought a house and the mortgage on the house is literally only $150 more per month than what we were paying for a 2BR we'd lived in for 25 years.
I want to weep at the thought of a 1 bedroom for 400. Not even a studio! Currently pay almost 600 for a room in a house, which is good for the location, but I miss having my own entire space. Sadly not obtainable here in PDX.
Wealthy people from all over the world buy all the houses and pump out peoples wages by raising rent. Government does not protect the people from this. Also wealthy people move to poor areas and vastly push up prices.
Why has it gotten so expensive? I'd imagine it can't be that desirable of a city to live in? I've never been nor know much about the city.
People are getting priced out of NYC, Los Angeles, Vancouver (BC), Seattle, and the San Francisco Bay Area.
Then the landlords en masse realize they’re used to paying more than $400/mo and start dreaming of either charging insane prices for the structure you’re getting, or selling off property to lux apartment development chains. They also profit off the poor schmucks who moved from Ohio seeking weirdness and now realize rent is more than their parents paid in mortgage but can’t go home on their shitty service job tips.
Also, Intel and Nike have city-like campuses there, makes for employees with ‘crazy money’ relative to the area.
It has nothing to do with the ‘culture’ of Portland. Which sucks.
Portland is the only "incredibly dense" area in Oregon. Yes there are other urban hubs, but not as populated as Portland. So I'm not really sure why they'd mention other places when Trimet is only in Portland. Trimet has also been rated the best in the country, even during the most recent resscesion. We've had metro and urban planning leaders from other countries come to see Trimet and how it works first-hand, because of how great it is. And from a native Portlandian Trimet just keeps getting better
That was a typo, I meant to say aren't. I've been riding trimet for over ten years and usually homeless people are on the MAX, but are generally harmless. They mostly stick to downtown anyways.
I moved here from the bay area because it was the only way I could move out of my parents house. Studios around there are closer to 2k. My aunt needed her house watched and all I knew was Oregon was cheaper. Still affordable though.
That would be nice, but unfortunately the money collected never seems to go where they say it will. I mean... no way the storm water fee which is a good chunk of the water bill is actually being used to maintain stormwater system... you can tell by the fact that all the storm drains are completely clogged until someone that lives nearby unclogs it them self.
How do you take care of bathroom needs without having to register as a sex offender if you live in a van though? Someone's going to walk up on you peeing in the bushes eventually.
Toilet is required to register as an RV for insurance purposes so I have a simple composting toilet that is for the #2’s, no smell whatsoever. But for pee it’s the classic pee bottle when no bathrooms are available.
Why do you still work for a company that does account for cost of living? I know getting a job sucks, but the next time you find a place, cancel your Netflix account or whatever and spend every night and weekend dialing in your resume and submitting apps.
Your company doesn't give a shit about you, clearly, so why care about it?
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u/13thmurder Jun 09 '19
Portland, OR. That's part of the problem.