Anonymous Mar 28, 2015 at 8:49 am

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Also, fuck the security guards.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LxyJ6OYLVz…
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When something works really well once, that's where the money flows. Remember Boy Bands? But yes these big boxes are popping up like fucking crazy. They all want $1600 while there aren't enough available living wage jobs to fill one of those buildings. It's a bubble that won't end well.
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Bubbles can't end well, they pop. But maybe this one WILL end well for the people who end up living in these apartments after the market glut drives the prices down. But you know what? People keep moving here and people keep having babies (often the same people, BTW) so this may not end up being a bubble after all. Other than the "human civilization on earth" bubble.
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I wonder if they'd hire me as a greeter at one of these big box Apts. I could welcome home all the residents when they return at the end of the day. Of course I'd probably just stand there, not say a word, and never make eye contact.
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Right, Portland is just not the same as it was when you moved here back in 2013. Good luck in Detroit/New Orleans/Your Mom's Basement in Missouri. Shut the door on your way out and be sure to tell everyone you know how awful Portland is. Thanks!
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Yeah, fuck those developers for providing places for people to live.
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lol a bubble? We have one of the lowest vacancy rates in the country and no sign of it letting up anytime soon. Just face the facts, many of you will get priced out of Portland because you lack the skills to earn a livable income in a city immersed in rapid gentrification.

You don't get to be a slacker your whole life, aspire toward nothingness, then demand that new condos in the city-center only charge you $700/mo in rent because 'brah c'mon!'... It's almost painful watching all these do-nothing idealists get throat gagged by the throbbing cock of reality. You either play the game or you end up east of 82nd.
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^ I don't think you bringing yourself to orgasm thinking about those people's struggles constitutes "almost painful" you dickhead.

You know what's really painful? The fact you can't post a comment without using "bro" or "brah."
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^Chill, Ranger Rick.
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Portland is not SF, NY or Seattle... it's Cincinnati with a plethora of idle cash. There are plenty of people here with qualifications, degrees, and motivation that are waiting tables or doing free auditions at some trust funded start up. This is a bring your own money kind of town.
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The Big Lie is that these apartments will somehow make it easier for average middle-class people to find a place to live. That's not going to happen-- they're all aimed at the wealthy lifestyle-seekers who want to live near trendy bars and brunch spots above anything else. The location and amenities guarantee that you'll likely never see a bubble "pop" or notice much of an overally correction in rent prices. People know we're comparatively cheap, so if the market's going anywhere, it's heading towards the Seattle cost of living.

Anyhow, all these people renting the new big box shitholes are absolutely insufferable. I rode my bike up Williams the other day and GOOD GOD how it's gone up overnight. All tacky, forgettable construction that looks like Mississippi / Alberta / Hawthorne / Division / etc, sporting the same local-chain businesses that serve what might as well be the same people: white 20 and 30-somethings with facial hair, American Apparel hoodies and New Seasons tote bags. Generic doesn't begin to describe it.

I'm all for development, but it's just so narrowly focused on creating this vapid lifestyle monoculture where everyone's hyper-self-conscious of how everyone around themselves looks, acts and thinks. It's practically the middle-american Gestapo-- yet we call it "WEIRD". If you're not listening to Beach House, voting for Hillary and flaccidly claiming to be interested in going car-free, then prepare to receive a volley of passive-aggressive outrage:

"You're not using the bike lane correctly."

"The brand of beer you're drinking was sold to investors."

"Those tortilla chips are made of GMO corn."

"That food cart doesn't use compostable flatware."

"You'd be much happier if you lived in a tiny house."

Jesus, fuck! Was it always like this? What ever convinced me that I needed to move here and surround myself with 24/7/365 dipshits?
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My bad Todd, didn't realize you and bird brain were an item. Promise I won't let happen again Oh Ye Who Stands For Nothing.
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Rick: I think it's more or less about you hawking over these comments until you see something from me, which then sends you into fickle/nitpicky mode. It's beyond old, move on, stop taking it so personally, etc.
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I hope this guy moves away. Clearly, he doesn't meet the minimum IQ requirement for the city.
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Brought to you by the Vacant Lot Preservation Society
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assisse: I've grown selective as to which of your asinine comments I respond, believe it or not.

I don't take your elitist nonsense personally either. I do, however, take exception to it from time to time.

I just wish, for once, you wrote something that gave the impression that the quality of your character appeared more important than your socio-economic standing.

Your lack of humility and compassion are frightening, even to me. Again, I don't take anything you write personally. But I do take your comments at face value. Am I mistaken in doing so, or do you lack integrity as well as common decency?
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http://portland.craigslist.org/mlt/apa/495…

Meanwhile 24.5% of Portlanders earn less than $25K per year and 7% earn more than $150K
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Chunty for mayor.
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RickStevens- forget humility and compassion. He's giving you real talk. Vacancy rates have been low for a decade now, and the population still grows. It's no longer enough to work part time to make rent. And quite honestly, there isn't much wrong with Portland east of 205. It's just too bad you all think you are better than living amidst actual poor people.
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Yes the great people who move here with such wonderful skills like making the new candy crush app. This town was once filled with blue collar people and artist.
I can't count how many trends, styles and movements have been started by the true creative types just to be turned into another expensive brand product. The sad brunch line bores will always try to emulate the creative class but are afraid to leave the house without something showing they have material wealth.
Atleast the commoner will always have these dumbasses to chuckle at. I got the hell out and make beautiful things all day. It would be easy to start producing the same shit, start manufacturing with slaves in china, die inside and be another worthless piece of shit with a condo. How's that life sitting on your ass and playing kiss up treating you? Integrity won't get ya rich but you only live once and sitting in traffic in your fancy leather seat isn't worth a fuck.
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ICE, I agree with almost everything you're saying except the"real talk." Don't know why you're calling me out. Assisse is the one shitting on people east of 82nd. You can take that gripe up with him.
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This is going to be a mess when they find out these High End Condos or Apartments are not filled as they'd banked on. They're delusional to think the housing shortage will flock the Elite here to roam our city. This is not Broadway!
There are not enough Rich in Portland, to have made this a well thought out idea.

Very cool places for the well off to have a great evening out, but not enough to sustain them when they realize their high rent is in a city that has a lot of crime.

The young folks that come here should be able to enjoy their restaurant jobs. It is not just a dead end job. You meet people and become part of the community. I think they should treat these students, potential actors.designers and chefs with affordable housing. The rich have enough people helping them. Let the artistic and creative flock here first to develop the area the right way! Say maybe 5 years before the super-greedy ruin it.
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The people who can afford $2000 for a studio loft on SE Division are basically a transient crowd, who will either get bored with Portland in a few years or not be able to afford that price when they have to face the reality of the Portland job market. As long as that crowd keeps on showing up on the Brooklyn-Mission District-Silverlake circle tour the market is going to stay expensive. When it goes pop, it'll be interesting, but without a mass exodus housing is going to remain pricey in those areas. The "cool" inner neighborhoods are basically now just older home-owners who bought many years ago, a revolving cast of younger transplants looking for any rental they can find, and then wealthy professionals with equity from Seattle or San Francisco who can afford an old Victorian or Craftsman and the current rates.

Meanwhile, anyone who wants to settle down here and own a home who doesn't have a load of cash in hand is basically looking at east of 60th or 82nd or north of Killingsworth and so on. Which is fine, because the mortgage on my 4 bedroom home in Roseway just west of 82nd is probably less than what people are paying for rent for a 1 bedroom on N Williams and SE Division these days. And it's only about 15-20 minutes to get anywhere in this town and my neighbors out here are friendlier than when I lived closer in.
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What some of you are missing here is that there are 39 million people in California. SoCal just had its hottest March on record, with a number of days in the 90s, and the state is having its worst drought in centuries. If even 10% of the population decide to bail out of Cali in the next few years, that's almost 4 million people. Where do you think they might move? Somewhere... a little farther north? With plenty of water?

http://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/la-me-l…
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Portland was a healthy, growing community before these interlopers descended last year. They want to act like we were a bunch of Portlandia characters (thanks for providing that stereotype, hollywood assholes) who need a dose of Protestant Work Ethic. Well, fuck that.

Wanna gentrify? Well, how about I start putting low-rent halfway houses next to your granite-countertop dream bungalows.

Wanna co-opt our lifestyle? Do it from your underwater LOAN. Your 'murcan values will be your undoing.
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The reasons this is happening are all good ones. We have land use laws that restrict the urban growth boundary, forcing more dense living as our relative economic health and great living conditions in this area attract more talented and successful people to live here. We don't all want to be baristas who play in a shitty band. Some want to be educated professionals who play in a shitty band. The rage against the new dwellings is fueled by one thing: Jealousy. Quit hating and make yourself better so you can get out of your shitty abode.
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^^ And make sure when you're going out and being poured drinks, served food, served coffee, having your ticket checked, played music for, etc etc etc... to let all the losers serving you know just what losers they are, and just how jealous and loserly they are for working such shitty jobs like the losers they are and not trying to make themselves better.
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Every time someone rallies against something expensive, someone always retorts "It's jealousy!" If by jealousy you mean people wish Portland wasn't a magnate for developers making fast cash while upping rents, sure! I personally got the f' out and moved to a "suburb". I highly recommend it.
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I'm not the least bit jealous of anyone who moves into one of those new apartments.
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Massive amounts of people flocked to Southern Cal from 1950-1990. By the mid 90's a mass exodus was under way and So Cal was hemorrhaging people all over the SW. They took over Colorado, Nevada, Arizona and every other scenic desirable place this side of the Mississippi. Were just next on the list.

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