BankSimple moves to Portland

Re:BankSimple moves to Portland by Pakourama on Wednesday August 24, 2011 @12:26PM (#2921316)

Portland? WTF? Why? It's a hipster dump. Rains 9 months a year, has 12% perpetual unemployment, plus the USA's largest resident homeless population, which isn't terribly shocking given the awful job market. But, if you can actually get a job the salary will be circa 1994 and yet the property and rent prices are in fantasy land stuck in the 2006 housing bubble. Oh, plus the city has one of the highest suicide rates in the nation. Great place to live if you like being wet, underemployed, and depressed.

Glad I got out of that dump, if you want to have a future you need to be in Boston, NYC, or The Valley.

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Re:BankSimple moves to Portland by fatpanther on Wednesday August 24, 2011 @01:33PM (#2921666)

Portland unemployment rate - 9.2%; United States - 9.3% (source: http://bls.gov/web/metro/laummtrk.htm)

Real estate prices are definitely down from 2006; maybe not as much percentage-wise as California, but the equivalent house here still costs much less than one in Boston, NYC, or The Valley.

The rain can get you down sometimes but summers are fantastic (and dry). I feel I have a high quality of life here without having to sit in a car for 12% or more of my waking hours. Not that I don't get annoyed by something or another here from time to time. Every city has its own benefits & burdens.

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Re:BankSimple moves to Portland by endlessvoid94 on Wednesday August 24, 2011 @01:15PM (#2921570)

The company is moving there. The company isn't trying to get a job like you were. The company is actually CREATING jobs there.

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Re:BankSimple moves to Portland by waxpancake on Wednesday August 24, 2011 @12:50PM (#2921444)

We're glad you got out too. :)

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Re:BankSimple moves to Portland by dreamdu5t on Wednesday August 24, 2011 @01:58PM (#2921799)

LoL, like Boston, NYC, or the Valley are any less of a joke.

All of America is same sprawling hollow suburbia.

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Re:BankSimple moves to Portland by binarycleric on Wednesday August 24, 2011 @02:09PM (#2921847)

Visit Pittsburgh someday. We have some hollow suburbia but we don't have the typical endless suburban sprawl. We do have a fair amount of hipsters though, just a warning.

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Re:BankSimple moves to Portland by dmix on Wednesday August 24, 2011 @04:12PM (#2922329)

Hipsters are in every city, its not 2007 anymore.

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