I'm not leaving inner city Portland. We could sell our place, and for what things are going for in my hood, we could move to the burbs and get a McMansion. Rather live in a 97 year old fixer upper though. Right now we couldn't afford a house in our own neighborhood, so we just refinanced and are going to do a ton of projects. We'll get our money back, but it just blows me away how much cribs are going for. This is my neighborhood below......
Yeah. Weird. I moved home and California just slowly followed. Like an evil force in a John Carpenter film. I still love this town though. I grew up here and I'll die here. The real estate boom will bust some time.
The Aladdin Theater was home to the longest running showing of Deep Throat in the US. Which when you think of how long some if those mob-connected jack shacks in the East ran that film, is quite impressive. Perverts were actually considered perverts back then. Now they got all sort of sex clubs and being "weird" really isn't that weird at all.
My uncle lives right there on Alameda and 47th. Nice house, he used to live right across the street, but bought the other house across the street because he wanted the view in his backyard. I had no idea he paid a cool mil for it.
I haven't actually tried Akiko, I couldn't comment on it at all. The other three are great, the only way I'd differentiate them, other than actual cuisine, is in terms of atmosphere/ambiance. I think Pabu's izakaya style is the most interesting of the three.
That reporter should visit Trenton, NJ and complete his whirlwind tour in Camden. That article would make interesting journalism.
I haven't, but I've heard good things from a couple of people and now you. I'll definitely need to check it out, thanks!
Run by Moroccan immigrant and no pork products on menu. Hopefully Trump won't deport him! (if you like fish, branzino was to die for)
Man is Portland and the State ripping you guys off! You are paying far more in school tax per student that anywhere else in the state and receiving the lest amount of state school aid per student than anywhere in the state. The largest amount of monies paid by the State goes to school systems surrounding Portland, basically just outside the Urban Growth boundary. Wonder how that happens?
