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Our tech team has launched updates to The Nest today. As a result of these updates, members of the Nest Community will need to change their password in order to continue participating in the community. In addition, The Nest community member's avatars will be replaced with generic default avatars. If you wish to revert to your original avatar, you will need to re-upload it via The Nest.
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Thinking of relocating
I'm from the Northeast but DH and I may move to Cali. or Oregon within the next couple of years. He recently applied to a job near Portland and I have been casually looking at houses and apartments in that area. Are there any suburbs/sections of the city to stay away from due to crime, poor school districts, etc.? I've also been looking at the following towns:
Newberg, Dundee, Sherwood...basically the towns along 99W south of Portland.
Thanks.
Re: Thinking of relocating
while i love dundee and have a lot of family there. its really an old people town. its a middle of nowhere do nuthin town. its basically where people go to retire!
i tripple puffy heart newberg! i have a couple good friends that live there.
i don't know much about sherwood, but i hear nothing but good things.
There really aren't any horrible areas of town. There are some sketchy streets here and there, but usually if you go one street farther it is nice again. You can check out the movingtooregon bio for more information.
A lot of people like the towns along 99W, and some of them, including Newberg, have small town charm, but I'd have a hard time living there because I'd feel isolated and the services/events you have easy access to are limited.
I agree with the pp. All of the areas southwest of Portland are good as far as schools and crime. I would recommend looking at Tigard and Tualatin for their closer proximity to I-5. This makes getting around Portland much faster since 99W runs through towns at low speeds and is not a highway/freeway really. Commuting from Newberg/Sherwood into Portland can take 45 minutes because of traffic on 99W. Also there is more going on in Tigard/Beaverton since they are larger and more diverse.