Corbett Neighborhood Very Unfriendly/Mean-Sprited.
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9/5/2006
After living in Oregon from 1963 until 1997, I moved to Miami Beach due to a job opportunity for my husband. We loved getting away from the rain and cloudiness that hangs over the Northwest for so much of the year. When it didn't work out for us in Florida after a year, we couldn't go back to the depressing weather of Portland, so we moved instead to Los Angeles and purchased a small postwar home in need of fixing up... not far from LAX. Our neighbors there were very welcoming to us. They were so happy that we rescued the home from the disrepair it had fallen into from years of ownership by a vindictive woman raising her daughter with hatred of her father. When we decided to sell the home three years later right after 9/11, it sold in a less than an hour. We moved back to Portland to be close to family members (in a spirit of sentimentality from the 9/11 shock). Having recently attended a few family events where the weather was beautiful there... we forgot temporarily the reason we were happy to leave five years earlier. Being back in Portland, the weather bothered us some... but more than the foul weather, was the foul attitude of our neighbors when we purchased a fixer upper close to downtown Portland in the Corbett/Lairhill Park neighborhood. We had the front yard landscaped beautifully, repainted the inside, got attractive new windowcoverings, installed stainless appliances, put up a very attractive fence on the only side of the property that provided us with outdoor sitting space. The neighbors were horrible to us....turning us into the city for anything they thought was in violation of codes. Wouldn't speak to us except to criticize. We were later told by the people whose home we purchased that they got divorced because of the mean- spiritness of one particular neighbor who made their life so unbearably miserable.
We sold the newly improved home after 8 months and moved back to sunny California. I love my family members in Portland, but am happier now just visiting a few times a year.
Sandy | Santa Monica, CA