Review of Vancouver, Washington

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The highs and lows of living in the PNW

- 4/22/2019
My family and I first moved here in 1996. We lived here until 2007. We loved Vancouver and called it home for many years. The city was a great size and we had Portland just across the River. We had to move due to my husbands job near Olympia and really never liked it as well there. We were able to move back to Vancouver in 2017 and have been very disappointed in the changes that we have seen. The traffic and construction are much worse. The price of housing has doubled and in some places tripled from when we left, and the homeless population seems to be taking over most areas of Vancouver and Portland at an alarming rate as well as the trash on the side of the highway. Of course the population has drastically increased which makes it feel much larger but the increase in restaurants and movie theaters has been a plus. Also the rain and gloomy dreary days seems to drag on forever which is a major reason we are considering moving, unfortunately there is just no place better as far as weather goes than Vancouver from the months of July through October. I guess everywhere is going to have positives and negatives, you just have to decide what you can and can not live with.
Melissa | Vancouver, WA