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I couldn't live west of the west hills. Downtown is awesome. I would love a house in NW Portland that has a view of Downtown and Mt. Hood. Portland is an awesome city.

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SabasRevenge!

I've watched the cookie cutter houses spring up on the Wa.Co. side of Bethany since I was a kid and it was all farmland - I finished a documentary about it last year. There is really no comparison between the restaurants, coffee shops, art galleries, etc. in Bethany and Portland (I'm not talking about our Starbucks-laden downtown) and to me it feels like a planned community. Drive North on Grand and once it swings into MLK you won't see a scorched-bean Starbucks until you get to Vancouver.




I've spent time in NYC and London. London's downtown was filled with tourists and people who are willing to pay $20/day to drive "downtown." I was bummed out until I started taking the tubes to different parts of the city and got out of the overpriced downtown financial area. That's when the city really came to life. It's almost the exact same story with NYC. Manhattan is something to see, but it's not New York.

It's the same thing with Portland. "Downtown" seems to be where the financial district happens to be and where the tourists spend their time. Any city, be it New York, Portland, Oakland, or Vienna, is about more than the district that has the most hotels. I won't say one of those cities is better or worse than Portland, it's just about finding the right part of town.

By the way, are you from Andalusia? I've been researching Andalusian goat cheese and I think I'm going to try to make some. Seems like an amazing part of Spain.

barfo

I'll sell you mine. It will only cost you (puts pinkie to corner of mouth) One Million Dollars!

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Xericx

Pearl District for sure. Something with a view that you can take the drunk hottie you picked up from Solo for a nightcap on a Saturday night, then give her a Max ticket the next morning.

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Yes! Although, the type of women that go to Solo and Barracuda are almost so verbally unberable I can barely handle them when I am completley tanked, then I look at them and plug my ears to realize why I am there.

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That would be a steal for a house with that view haha.

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bayarea_blazer

Xericx - That's a funny comment about Solo. i went there once and was amazed. It was like a circus. Me and another buddy (who also moved from the SF bay area) went there and were astonished by the LA/paris hilton wannabe girls. It was laughable.

Back to the comments comparing Portland with big cities. Portland is not a big city, I've been to my share, but it has its own charm. And yes, suburb businesses and franchises do not compare to the various eclectic districts of Portland like Sellwood, Inner SE, Mississippi Ave, NW, etc.

SabasRevenge!

+1 - the reason they look like LA/paris hilton wannabe girls is that many of them probably ARE Cali transplants! The rest are over the hill sorority girls who look something like this: ... I'll stick to my neighborhood bars, house parties, and clubs thankyouverymuch.

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Originally Posted by bayarea_blazer Back to the comments comparing Portland with big cities. Portland is not a big city, I've been to my share, but it has its own charm. And yes, suburb businesses and franchises do not compare to the various eclectic districts of Portland like Sellwood, Inner SE, Mississippi Ave, NW, etc.

I agree with 100%. Portland is much more about the neighborhoods than the center of the city.

Sonny-Canzano

Channing has a penthouse in the Meriwether tower. If you have $3,000,000 so can you!

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