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Orenco Station area?
DH wanted me to ask you ladies your thoughts on Orenco Station...we're trying to explore (online) areas we'd be interested in looking, and this area looks pretty neat...this seems like a great compromise between "downtown feel" (we'd love to live downtown, but can get more bang for our buck outside of downtown) and the space/benefits of city life (we need at least a small yard/patio for our dog). Looks like it's very accessible to the MAX which is nice b/c DH would love to sell his car and use public transit.
Thoughts?
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Re: Orenco Station area?
We just moved from there. We were renting at Nexus and loved the location of the apartment complex. The MAX was about 5 minutes walk from our apartment. We have a love/hate relationship with the area. : )
New Seasons and Nature's Pet were a 5 minute walk. So is Starbucks and a couple of restaurants. There's a Bar & Grill type place there that's OK, and an Italian place that's OK. There's an Indian place that was really good initially, but the last couple times we've had it wasn't so special. There's a Farmer's Market on Sunday that we loooooved to go to that was right in the middle of all of it which was fantastic.
Other than that, it's not really super special. There were cute condos across the street from us at Q that were all very much on top of each other. The impression that we got of the housing in the neighborhood north of Nexus (north of the little park they have/north of Cornell) was that they're all cookie cutter, pricey, and right on top of each other.
We would have gladly rented there if we'd been able to find a place that was in our price range and allowed the monstas and the future dog we hope to adopt. But we couldn't find anything. We never even saw anything that we were able to look at. I definitely wouldn't buy there because the houses are so close to each other and didn't seem to have yards.
I wouldn't go south of the MAX line because it's too far of a walk to get to the grocery store and New Seasons.
I wish that we could pick up the park that's behind us now with hiking trails and the townhome we're currently renting and plop it down on the north side of Cornell. We still shop at New Seasons,the pet store, and the Farmer's Market. And I'm really, really sad that we can't walk to those places anymore. But that's about all we miss.
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Are you renting or buying?
If you want to rent and want to rent in an apartment complex we really did like Nexus. The reason we left is because we want to adopt a dog and they have a two pet limit that they're not willing to increase, even with additional pet rent or deposits or anything. They had A/C in the apartments, which was a requirement for me; it's the kind that you have in a hotel and in the living room and master bed. Any other bedrooms don't have A/C. There's also Washer & Dryer in the unit, and a dishwasher. They have a pool and small fitness center, and a big park in the middle of the complex.
You'd have the MAX, grocery and pet stores and Starbucks right there.
There's a little park just north of Cornell that they call Central Park. It's cute. There is a dog park that would probably be about 5 or 10 minutes by car? It's called Hondo, I think.
There aren't any hiking trails immediately around there, but the neighborhood north of Cornell would be nice to walk a dog in. There's a field behind new seasons and across the street from Nexus that you could play in with a dog. Hillsboro/Beaverton do have lots trails but you'd have to walk a ways to get to one.
Google Map of Parks/Trails
We're spoiled because we're within walking distance of Orchard Park and Rock Creek Trail, both of which have hiking (they're markers P & R on the google map, and you can see where Orenco is from there). If I were you, I'd move here by me. : ) You can walk to Whole Foods. There's hiking. And frisbee golf if you play that.
Public Transportation would be a little harder, because it'd be about a 1 mile to get to a rail line. But I think there are bus lines that are closer.
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I work near there. And while you are close to the MAX I would not want to live there without a car. You don't want to be restricted to always shop at New Season's. While they have some stuff, it can be a bit expensive and they carry mostly food so you'd need to get to a Fred Meyer or Target on occasion. Plus it's quite a trip to downtown from there. Depending on where you'll work, the commute into town is pretty horrendous. You would be better off taking the MAX, but it will take you about 40-50 minutes by MAX to get from Orenco to downtown.
I'm with Jen and would probably find an apartment or house to rent in or near downtown. When I first moved here I lived in NW Portland on the corver of NW 21st and Everett in the Metropolitan Apartments. I loved it. I could walk to Fred Meyer and to Trader Joe's from there. There are lots of restaurants. And you can walk to the MAX line or the street car from there. It's probably not the cheapest place to live, but it was doable.
DH lived in SW Portland near the Park Blocks and that was a great location as well. We have some friends that live in SW Portland near Barbur Blvd, no shops within walking distance but still a nice neighborhood. And we used to live in SE Portland where as Jen said you have lots of nice neighborhoods such as Sellwood or Hawthorne. Even NE has some pretty pockets such as the Hollywood district.
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I was just thinking again about the MAX stuff. We've used it twice the whole time we've lived here.
I'm not exactly sure what you're used to, if anything. But if you're expecting more like a pretty zippy subway system like the subway in Boston, it's not really the same. A lot of the time it's just faster to drive where we'd want to go than to take the MAX.
I'm not knocking it or anything, it was just a shock to go from the T to the MAX because we expected it to be faster. : )
We're not expecting fast, more like convenient to go places. We both lived in Germany where public transportation is awesome-not necessarily fast, but trains come often and go alot of places. We also are both from Northern CA which has BART, which we love to take into the city. We currently live in a seriously public transportation lacking city...
So, we know it's not the NYC subway, but it's much better than anything we have here. Also, I will have my car, and DH's parents who are planning to move there have 2 cars, and they're both retired.
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