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CappinPeanut t1_ira12hi wrote

Don’t sleep on Portland, you’re about 3 hours from Seattle there and it’s a much smaller city if you’re into that. The news will tell you that it’s scary there, it’s not. The surrounding suburbs are awesome with great outdoors activities and considerably cheaper than Seattle.

By all means, Seattle is a great place. But if you’re shooting for 3 hours away, you’ve got a whole nother city you can consider.

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hoehater t1_ira7f15 wrote

Portland is fucked… homeless junkies are even more brazen and prevalent than in Seattle.

Newberg is pretty nice though.

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CappinPeanut t1_ira7tod wrote

I’m not really suggesting raising a family downtown Portland, the idea was the surrounding suburbs. I also wouldn’t suggest raising a family in downtown Seattle, but OP is clearly talking about surrounding suburbs when he’s talking about the metro area.

Edit: Bonus, if you live in Vancouver, you can take advantage of no income tax and then pop into Oregon to take advantage of no sales tax. Plus you miss the Portland traffic on your monthly drive to Seattle.

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oldirishfart t1_irahbc8 wrote

From the school perspective Camas is the place to be down that far south. But that’s a hellish commute to Seattle…

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hoehater t1_ira9e87 wrote

Yeah, I have family there, they seem to enjoy it.

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