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Too many people
Star Rating - 11/4/2017
I've lived here 20 years. The influx of the last years has destroyed my neighborhood. Traffic is horrible and crime is up. Most of my neighbors have moved away, selling their homes to out of town owners, who rent them to people making $12 an hour and living 4 adults to a house. My street is packed with parked cars because there are more drivers than driveways. I had hoped to retire here, but I can't stand it, so I am looking elsewhere.
Heath | Bend, OR
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Try being a fourth generation local and being faced with the idea of relocating from what's been your hometown for decades. To not be able to enjoy retiring in a town you've lived and worked in your entire life? The problems you describe are real and happening all over our once beautiful town. There seems to be no end to the invasion of Californians. We hate them all and flip off ever car with a CA license plate! We had a Californian attempt to buy a house on our street of just six homes to use as a vacation rental. I overheard him talking to the HOA president, so I told him I lived on that street and would not tolerate a vacation rental. I said if you want real problems and the cops called every night go for it. Thankfully we never heard from him again and the house sold to an elderly couple from Washington.
Kimberly | Bend, OR | Report Abuse
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