Portland, OR Area Advice
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- CanHasQBN
I'm looking to buy an apartment near SE 43rd Ave and SE Division St.
Can anyone from Portland tell me if this is a decent area to live in? Will I get shot there?
Thanks whores.
- Miguex0
I love the show!
Sorry I don't have anything useful to contribute though
- CanHasQBN0
Thanks for your help, dummies.
I guess I'm interested in more of a human perspective (versus stats). My friend up there said it was a "mediocre" part of Portland.
Any Portland inhabitants here?...
- deathboy0
Only thing i know is my buddy live in the northwest and i really liked the area. Walked everywhere, out late taking pictures. Backed right up to a sweet park. Felt safe. Really liked it. Now just gotta figure out if i can score a job up there and move.
- Oh yea took some picture son the river NE side and was a bit sketchy. lot of bum encampments and weird shit.deathboy
- CanHasQBN0
Yes, the NW area is the Pearl District I believe. Best place in Portland they say. And I've heard the NE isn't too great. I guess it was where some gangs from Cali migrated to some years back.
Gonna fly out next week to check some places out. Guess I'll find out soon.
- Iifeinvector0
Maybe rent for 6 months or so before you buy? Get your own feel for the city, 'n shit.
- This is horrible advice.CanHasQBN
- kidding. hey you're in phoenix now?CanHasQBN
- Yes!Iifeinvector
- You better take my advice!Iifeinvector
- i will if you meet me for lunch.CanHasQBN
- fooler0
I've lived in South East PDX for 12 years and love it. When I moved here the Pearl District was nothing but warehouses and North Portland was pretty ghetto and dangerous. Now both those places are trendy and expensive and SE seems to be the exact same.
SE Division isn't the trendiest place to live but you will be within walking/biking distance to Mt Tabor Park
Pok Pok & the Whiskey Soda Lounge plus the best BBQ in town, Clays Smokehouse.
http://www.pokpokpdx.com/
http://clayssmokehouse.ypguides.…
and the Hawthorne District.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haw…- Awesome. I love that Hawthorne is so close.CanHasQBN
- you don't know "ghetto."ohhhhhsnap
- bjladams0
elloh is there- she might know.
- dibec0
Dude. It is a pretty sketchy hood. Lots of car break-ins, lotsa weirdos that traverse up and down division, la la la. Pretty much scary white people. It is a major route into town coming from the East. There are pockets of glory, but few ... but they are there. If you want to be on Division, either hit it early right off the Ross Island going back to 20th or bust out East past 205.
It is also one of those neighborhoods that changes when the lights go down. yeah. I worked for a law firm there for about 5 years. Amazing what kinda shit I would find in the morning. AMAZING K!
- dibec0
Actually ... the further you stay away from Powell, the better it will be.
- colin_s0
se 43rd and division? that's a pretty good neighborhood unless it's gone drastically downhill. usually east of 50th is great in southeast. the closer in you are the better (until you get to 11th / industrial area), but yeah. i'd say that's a pretty good spot.
- fooler0
As you get closer to 82nd on Division and anything East of that is pretty sketchy. Anything lower than Mt Tabor (60th) is very safe.
- lumedia0
that part of SE is booming right now. Everything is in Division between 39th and 20th. The city is in the middle of a major re-zoning on Division to revitalize the street. It should just get better and better as time goes on. They are building a ton of condos with street level retail there, as well as in the rest of the city.
- You are correct. I was relating to my experience to the people over in Powell not division. I got a little mixed up with my hood.dibec
- yah it's going to be like Hawthorn 10 years ago or Belmont 5 years ago.
fooler - I lived south of powell near Reed for a few years and it's still cool. Gladstone is getting better.fooler
- dibec0
Fuck it, you are golden. Build a castle. Enjoy your life.