Reviews & Comments
Albany, OR
re: Fantastic up and coming town!
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4/14/2019"could use a little beautification" what an understatement. This is such a run down dirty city with a lack of good restaurants and clean cut neighborhoods. Even the Costco parking lot is not what a normal good looking Costco parking lot looks like. Millersburg is the only neighborhood in the whole area that looks like what a neighborhood is supposed to look like; but get ready to pay out the wazoo for a home.
The place lacks playgrounds and the ones it does have are pathetic and you wouldn't feel safe going to them anyway. Also, not a single splash pad to be had in 20 mile radius. Education is not even an afterthought priority to the government here as evidenced by the low school ratings, 3rd highest drop out rate in the nation, and the fact that around 20% of the people in Linn County are on some sort of government assistance such as food stamps (that's about double to normal communities).
Also the number of Mfg homes/mobile homes per 1000 people in the county are 4x higher than average probably due to the completely un-affordable housing market and a culture that does not take pride in how their communities look. Not a good place to raise a family. After spending almost a year here, I'm taking my family of 6 somewhere else.
I don't say this to be mean, I'm just trying to warn others before they decide to move to Albany and surrounding area and let my voice be heard so that hopefully the community addresses this with their civic leaders to finally do something about it.