AVOID Moving to Oregon Unless You Can Handle These 10 Facts

Important things I wish realtors would have told me before moving to Portland Multnomah County. You are financially taxed extra 1.5% annually if you make 125k or over if married it’s 200k your forced pay a extra baby sitter tax, homeless tax, art tax that others who make under that do not have to pay & increases of 0.8% coming soon to 250k single & 400k married. In parts of Portland metro you have to pay annual fee for a backwater test on your home this is another scam. Was never told the Max light rail system is a moving homeless shelter with open drug use & drug transportation inside train, the homeless people ride for free, sleep & live on train year around spreading diseases & toxic drug residues like fentanyl all over inside the riding cars. Plus there we’re no toll road’s very few photo ticket cameras & not a police state focused on taxing working people this is all unfortunately changing, more & more homeless people are shipped & welcomed here & more police now who only going after tax payers & toll roads more traffic ticket cameras on the way. Do your research before moving here it has some great areas but some are horrible & stay out of Portland basically is what I’ve found unless you’re very wealthy & do not mind what I listed above.

This seems mis-labeled. It's all about Portland, not "Oregon" which is much larger

Dude said nothing about ANTIFA violence and police impotence.

There is ALOT of ILLEGAL ALIENS!ANTIFA! HOMELESS PEOPLE SOYBOYS AND MENTALLY ILL PEOPLE! DONT LIVE IN PORTLAND! IT IS A SHTHOLE NOW!!! keep voting BLUE! DEMOCRATS (dummycrats) RUINED PORTLAND!
Don't go near the Willamette river in Oregon! Its the most Polluted river in the state. But unfortunately portland people think it's a great place to go swim. Maybe that's what's wrong with them. I repeat do not move to portland. Its dirt full of riots of unlawful citizens, illegal aliens and homeless people! It used to be beautiful, but now it's not. The people caused the Portland city to become ugly. Oregon is a beautiful place to live I strongly suggest to not live in portland. I live in albany oregon. It's not bad here. It's more quaint than portland.

Are there enough healthcare jobs? More specific. Patient care Thecnician like hemodialysis? Physician assistant?

$450k price range for a house is not "affordable"

I would caution people to shop around if your looking for a rental. A lot of these management companies are very very predatory! Costs can be insane and once they lock you into a lease, if you have any issues; they be like,"too bad so sad".

I-5 by wilsonville almost comes to a stop during rush hour. Probably no surprise.

That intro has is off the hook yo'! Felt like I'm getting ready to watch a podcast based out of a Daft Punk party bus!

Avoid moving here unless you like living in a place that was once incredible but is now a desecrated abomination, filled with hordes of culturally enriching undesirables, making driving a nightmare and completely destroying the quality of life. The people who built this state would be heart broken to see that we have allowed the third worlders to turn it into a huge toilet.

They need to house the homeless and migrants since we legalized personal drug use and we are a sanctuary state

Graffiti, drugs, homeless and antifa yay!

I want to move to portland so bad! But I have to convince the person i'm living with first to make the move.😉😉

I’m sorry but as a true digital nomad there isn’t a major city I haven’t lived. What’s funny is the comments. Seems political. Texas Oregon California snipes. Not gonna to burst your balloon but homelessness and hot weather is bad everywhere and neither republicans nor democrats have a solution
Austin TX sprawling economy but clearly a homeless problem. Some cities Portland LA San Diego are worse but it’s bad everywhere

I’ve seen it firsthand. Portland. The city that loves to hate. Antifa stronghold and their violence. Antifa and BLM insurrected an entire area of downtown and held control for many months. Rampant homelessness. Crime so bad that businesses and residents are fleeing at a record rate. Human waste everywhere. The mentally ill and druggies acting out in public. Throw in a miserably cloudy/damp/dreary climate and a ridiculously high cost of living, and you’ve got yourself a real paradise.

I loved Portland. I think the weather is great however the traffic is awful and the overpopulation at all the outdoor events wasnt for me.

My cousin and husband lived in Beverton for years he worked for Nike and retired a millionaire.

Love all the B Roll !!!

Liberals have destroyed Oregon .

I can handle these. I’ve lived here for 8 years 🇺🇸

HI, I maight move fraom Norway to Portland, But if I buy a fral at around 300k what will I have to pay in property tax? will it be around 3000$ a year ?

You need to disclose if these are ads chief.

Don't you have anything better to do then be a tunnel vision critic who really doesn't have a clue what he is talking about?

CHANGE THE TITLE IF THIS IS ONLY PORTLAND.

From Portland and been in Texas for years. And yearly I'm home sick. Miss the beauty and nature activities.

If your even close to be a centrist or slightly right you will need a gun. Portland doesn't like anybody but far leftists. You have to be deranged to get along with the people. I live in Salem and it's bad but no where near as bad as Portland.

I like how he didn’t mention one of the worst homelessness and dirtiest cities is portland and ive been to almost every bug city in the US

How does homesteading look like on the west country side of Oregon? Market gardening?

even Oregonians avoid Portland Portland has always been a bag of shit

What a joke !!!

Dumb. I know you are just trying to make money but the main concern is safety. Meth heads everywhere. Living wherever they want and being hostel and threatening life. I have never wanted to be a gun owner and now I am. Live in SE Portland and it’s a terrifying thing to not feel safe at home. These people don’t care, have nothing to lose, and make your life miserable. Don’t move to Portland…

There seems to be an unwritten law that apartment houses have to be built right next to all the freeways. I reside in a senior and disabled of any age building. The busiest stretch of I-84 is literally over a fence. If you have respiratory problems, they will get worse living in an apartment next to the freeways here. Stupid, uncaring planning folks, and developers here. And San Francisco prices.

Avoid moving to Oregon unless you can handle this one fact... Portland.

it use to be a choice, the state of Portlandia or the state of Oregon, unfortunately, the tentacles of Salem's hard left-wing leftists are no longer satisfied with the valley but are hellbent on 'shaping' all of OR.

there was a similar problem in the '80s with the Rajneeshees and they were ultimately kinda
chased out of the state, maybe too bad but they too wanted 'all of OR -- no different than Portlandia's leftists. If only the Rajneesehes could have simply kept to 'themselves' all would have been okay...


so what it boils down to is 'toleration' of left-wing extremists and their agenda; hardly palatable for folks who have kids but maybe tolerable for folks who do not object to rampant crime, illegal drug use, the ubiquitous bums, and lunatic politicos...

My take on the weather as a 30 year resident: My fav months are April and September. May -June is cooler and cloudier than other parts of the country (55-70) which makes those months disappointing. Then July and Aug is when it really warms up and it's best to head to the mountains (coast is foggy).Tons of sun. Aug can be very oppressive in the lowlands, but Sept will be awesome. Summer continues to the first week in Oct, then fall is short. Early Nov on the coast can be magnificent - 65 and sunny, but by mid November elsewhere you're into winter. The worst rains are from Nov 15th to the end of the year. Jan is the coldest month but a little sunnier with your best chance of snow. Snowfalls are light, but ice storms can be vicious. Feb and March are dreary and wet as temps start to warm a little. Then April is extremely welcome, warm to 70 and often not as wet. Beautiful month.

If you are in management...don't move here. Super lazy people infested in all work. So the management field is very difficult and you make barely more than your lazy lazy lazy employees.

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Don't forget the homeless people are over downtown

how could you ignore the devastating increase in property & violent crime in Portland? or, the fact that drug use and homelessness are rampant in downtown Portland?

I wanna move out of south Florida 😢😢😢😢 crowded annoying antisocial people

I'm so confused. He says there's a lot more to Oregon than Portland but then spends this whole time speaking about Portland. Feeling pretty annoyed.

What kind of butthead promotes an overpopulated busting at the seems city that can't handle the current population increase. Get a real job buddy or just go back to California.

Portland is now a total mess! Huge homeless problem, gang violence, daily shootings, business moving out of the downtown area. Very poor city management and underfunded police. Don’t consider moving here without spending a couple of weeks visiting here to get a feel for what it’s about. I’m a native Oregonian and will tell you there are plenty of beautiful and safe places outside the metro area to live.

My brother was born in Portland where my family lived in the mid-sixties. My parents left because it was grimy, crime ridden, poorly planned city with with an aging infrastructure and a lot of crumbling houses and neighborhoods. Portland re-invented itself in the early seventies and now faces an excess of people wanting to live there, because it became such a desirable place to live and now it’s expensive and overcrowded, not deteriorating.

Injured on the job in oregon in 2014. The state refused to treat me, I could not get my case to court for years. Lost my house, still injured and still homeless.
Oregon is a failed state, you have zero rights!

I love Oregon

You missed snowmageddon.

Just got back from Portland. I thought it was a zombie city. Downtown is nasty, dirty, unsafe, and filled with drug addicts and criminals