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on Wage Woes
So if people that work here feel their value professionally is being undervalued then they should just leave? And you are so smug as you think that everyone values Oregon over other places? That I had a CHOICE to move here? I think I'd rather see people like you leave this town.
posted 2 years, 5 months ago
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on Wage Woes
How is that PDXOutdoors? Do you know where I lived in these locales? You seem to know. Because I say Kansas you are assuming I lived in an rural area? You are incorrect on all accounts. I do think my value as an educated professional here deserves a salary on par with locales where the cost of living a half of what it is here. I do think that my salary here should be on par with metro with 6 times the population.
posted 2 years, 5 months ago
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on Wage Woes
I took a 8K pay cut to move from Phoenix to here for cost of living. Trash, Elec., gas, cable, and water were ALL more expensive here, not to mention housing was at least 1/2 more expensive. We didn't realize how much utilities were until we got here. I can make the same amount of money here in my college educated profession as I can in Kansas! Homes in Kansas cost half as much as they do here. In the 90's homes were more expensive in the KC Metro than they were here. Wages have not kept up with the cost of living here. My company gauges their wages in the Portland metro by surveying the likes of small towns in Oregon. It makes living here very difficult. You cannot own a home here a single person unless you moved here 20 years ago or more.
posted 2 years, 5 months ago
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on Metro Prez Heads to NYC
Is it normal that taking TriMet takes 2 to 3 times as long to get anywhere than driving? Is that normal? Is it that way in other metro areas?
posted 2 years, 8 months ago
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on A Homeowner Bailout?
FireIce-
Why should taxpayers pay for you to refinance a poor financial decision, especially if you can still afford your mortgage? What will keep prices artificially inflated is keeping people in homes they cannot afford. Foreclosures are necessary to bring prices down to sustainable levels. Your situation is exactly my point, housing prices need to come down to a level where you can maintain your mortgage payment without 2 full incomes.
posted 4 years, 3 months ago
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on A Homeowner Bailout?
This plan will keep housing prices artificially inflated. I went to graduate school 2003-2005, after which houses prices had gotten so high that I decided my generation would never be able to afford a home. I still have not bought a home because of the housing frenzy and then talk of the bubble. It was like sheep running over a cliff. Now, we are supposed to bail out people who made unwise decisions, so that people in there 20's and 30's will never be able to afford a home without two incomes. There is nothing in the constitution about the right on a return in your investments. Now I am supposed to bail out people who bought more than they could afford (if you have to get an ARM it is more than you can afford) or who owe more than their house is worth (even if they can pay the mortgage) so that I can still continue to never afford a home? Housing prices MUST continue to come down for things to return to sustainability, otherwise we are pushing off the inevitable. Having to pull in $100K (two incomes)to afford a home in Portland is not sustainable. It leaves home ownership to either only the rich or to people who want to leave their kids in daycare while both parents work full time their whole lives.
posted 4 years, 3 months ago
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