where to live by the southern border in WA?

[BlahBlahYouToo]

no income tax in WA, no sales tax in OR, so live in WA, shop in OR FTW?

the weather is not bad either right?
so where is there a desirable place to live in that region?

 

[CrackRabbit]

The Vancouver area is about your only choice, unless you like living out in the sticks somewhere.

 

[BoomerD]

The Vancouver is about your only choice, unless you like living out in the sticks somewhere.

Plus, you'd have the benefit of living in Tridentboy's home town...He could come visit you.

 

[Kyle]

Yeah Vancouver would be your best option...I've not done much in Vancouver but you'd be so close to Portland it wouldn't be a bad place to live. Weather is typical pacific NW rain.

 

[adairusmc]

Agreed on Vancouver. You dont want to live in Tri-Shitties.

 

[BoomerD]

Agreed on Vancouver. You dont want to live in Tri-Shitties.

I hated the Tri-Cities when we were there. (I worked at Hanford for a couple of years)

Of course...there's always Walla Walla and Milton-Freewater...

 

[BlahBlahYouToo]

why is the crime index so high in vancouver WA?
NYC has a lower index, wtf?

 

[Capt Caveman]

No state income tax but it's still expensive to live there. Fees, sales tax, property taxes, etc all make-up for no state income.

 

[wheresmybacon]

Hood River is nice but it's a ways east. If/when my wife and I move back I'd like to look @ Hood River. Portland is only about an hour away so it's not too bad.

Vancouver is a lot better than it once was. It used to be kind of disgusting and run down but there has been a lot of renovation and improvements to the downtown area and it's actually not that bad of a place to live now. It's right across the river from Portland, and for all intents and purposes it's just a less-cool extension of the PDX metropolitan area. While staying with a friend one night in 1996, I had all my worldly possessions stolen out of my car while moving, so I've still got a little bit of a beef with The Couv.

The weather in SW Washington and NW Oregon is beautiful in the summer, which as I recall last year was on a Tuesday. In all seriousness I would suggest being fully prepared for a lot of rain if you move there. Until last year, I'd lived my entire life in Portland/Salem/Seattle and the surrounding area, and while I'm used to the rain, I know it gets to a lot of folks. The last couple years have been exceptionally bad, with 2010 seeing rain or some form of precipitation for ~ 90 days straight at one point.

I want to move back, but career and money wise Vegas is the place for my wife and I right now.

 

[Capt Caveman]

Hood River is nice but it's a ways east. If/when my wife and I move back I'd like to look @ Hood River. Portland is only about an hour away so it's not too bad.

Vancouver is a lot better than it once was. It used to be kind of disgusting and run down but there has been a lot of renovation and improvements to the downtown area and it's actually not that bad of a place to live now. It's right across the river from Portland, and for all intents and purposes it's just a less-cool extension of the PDX metropolitan area. While staying with a friend one night in 1996, I had all my worldly possessions stolen out of my car while moving, so I've still got a little bit of a beef with The Couv.

The weather in SW Washington and NW Oregon is beautiful in the summer, which as I recall last year was on a Tuesday. In all seriousness I would suggest being fully prepared for a lot of rain if you move there. Until last year, I'd lived my entire life in Portland/Salem/Seattle and the surrounding area, and while I'm used to the rain, I know it gets to a lot of folks. The last couple years have been exceptionally bad, with 2010 seeing rain or some form of precipitation for ~ 90 days straight at one point.

I want to move back, but career and money wise Vegas is the place for my wife and I right now.

The main reason I left, the rain thing everyday was so depressing.

 

[wheresmybacon]

why is the crime index so high in vancouver WA?
NYC has a lower index, wtf?

There's a lot of crime in The Couv. I was wondering if it had dropped at all but evidently it hasn't.

Portland and Vancouver have a very high homeless population due to the proliferation of available services for them and moderate climate. A large number of these homeless are in my observation the gutter-punk heroin kids and they steal. A lot. Vancouver seems to be a preferred target, I'm guessing because there a lot of old homes practically intermixed within the downtown area proper. Also from what I've seen there just aren't as many cops around. Downtown PDX has cops everywhere. The Couv not so much.