overhyped
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8/15/2006
I moved to Portland five years ago and I have dreaded the decision since. The weather is dreary, with nine months of rain, making everyone depressed. Californians are moving here in droves, bringing their "ugly attitudes", including crime, gangs, poor driving and great sense of entitlement. Housing prices have shot through the roof, because the Californians are selling their million dollar homes and paying way too much for homes here, thus driving up the prices. Wages here are 25% lower than national averages, thus it is impossible to buy a home. When you try to get out into nature, you have to deal with 45 foot motor homes towing their cars from every state imaginable. They bring everything they own, clogging every piece of nature, thus destroying any opportunity to utilize the three months when the weather is nice. Central Oregon used to be nice, but the neo-rich Californians have bought up all the land, demanding Wal-Mart and other chain restaurants to build there, thus recreating the same blight that they complained about in California! I'm moving to Montana!
Ervin | Portland, OR