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- edwartica, on 05/18/2009, -4/+21To all you unemployed hipsters that are thinking about moving to Portland. STAY AWAY! The few jobs that are out there right now belong to US! NOT YOU!
And since I sound like a crotchety old man, I might as well add this. GET OFF MY LAWN!!! - TheGreatZarquon, on 05/18/2009, -2/+13Yeah, about Riverside, CA... I lived in Riverside for three years, and the Idiot to Genius ratio is roughly over 9000:1. Go to Riverside if you want ***** air, meth addicts cutting the copper out of your house, deserted sub developments and a ball-crushingly high cost of living. Do NOT go to Riverside looking for things like intelligence, decency, reasonable prices or people who don't smell like bits of old fish.
- Andrewbot, on 05/18/2009, -4/+12Riverside? Really? I don't know why people would necessarily want to move out there...
- Tanktunker, on 05/18/2009, -1/+9DEY TUK AR JERBS!
- digitalArtform, on 05/18/2009, -1/+8Again: what was the thrive part?
That article was about how young, educated people continue to stream blithely into a bad employment situation just because the town is reputedly 'hip,' which is having the effect of making conditions even worse there.
Granted, I skimmed, but I missed the part where the town was thriving. - KimmyGibbler, on 05/18/2009, -0/+6The WSJ is an economic newspaper and "hipster" is just a term that defines a certain pattern of consumption (Urban Outfitters, Apple, Pabst, to name a few), so therefore their use makes sense. If you think "hipsterness" is an ideology, you are dellusional
- CrazyArcher, on 05/18/2009, -0/+5Yeah man. I'm a Portland native, and it is pretty kick ass here, but all the people coming has just exacerbated the work situation. Jobs are impossible to get here. Even at local groceries and other grunt jobs. ***** impossible.
- inactive, on 05/18/2009, -2/+7WTF?!?!
I am sitting in downtown riverside right now and this is news to me. Especially the 4.12 million population. Last time i looked at the sign it was around 300k
I'm going to venture that it is more a representation of the Inland Empire, And that the influx of brains was due to the housing bubble driving new home buyers out here to the boonies.
As far as hip goes riverside sucks ass, Out here the coolest you can get is a raised truck, stars and straps tee's, some tats, and a hat on sideways while playing beer pong. *****. This. Place. - kuzotz, on 05/18/2009, -2/+7Tuck Fexas!
- IamNomad, on 05/18/2009, -1/+6I wouldn't consider Portland to be trendy at all. I wouldn't say the entire city is fail.. but ...
- deboerpa, on 05/18/2009, -2/+7Apparently you didn't even look at the list, or you somehow missed Des Moines.
- endgame, on 05/18/2009, -0/+4Funny, a few years back my wife & I looked at moving to North Carolina from California. Repeatedly people asked us not to move their. They said things like "We dont have room for people from California" & "You people come here taking our jobs & changing our towns". We left & are still in California.
BTW: We got the same response when looking in Colorado too. - mouthbreether, on 05/18/2009, -0/+4haha... because it's so true.
- swoopdog, on 05/18/2009, -1/+5Just moved out of PDX. No surprise there isn't a stable economy and no one seems to give a crap.
- imsoclever, on 05/18/2009, -1/+5I went to visit a good friend of mine who was living in Portland. I absolutely loved the city. When I asked him what most of his friends did for work, he said "Well, people here aren't so much into jobs..."
Wonderful place for an extended visit... To make a living, probably not so much. However, cramming a lot of smart, dedicated people into a place can't be a bad thing, regardless of the current economic situation. - myxyplik, on 05/18/2009, -2/+5Really, I don't know why people still take the Wall Street Journal seriously. Buried.
- Grolsch, on 05/18/2009, -0/+3You gotta be kidding me San Antonio made the list.. this place sucks. If SA is a hip places to be at then I think my dreams are shattered.
- phunction, on 05/18/2009, -1/+4I moved away from Portland almost a year ago now and when I left things were just starting to get rough. Don't get me wrong, I love the town and I'll move back when the time is right, but there are so many people migrating and living there that it's hard to find jobs. I lost my job in May of last year and I left a few weeks after that.
- edwartica, on 05/18/2009, -0/+3I honestly hate to be xenophobic, and I know and love many California transplants mind you, but its kind of a matter of survival at times like these.
I will say something totally off the subject. If you ever do move somewhere and you find out that say, the schools suck, try to find out what caused the schools to suck to begin with, instead of trying to change things right away. That's a major issue in Oregon. Ok, enough rant. Sorry. :)
GET OFF MY LAWN!!! - mouthbreether, on 05/18/2009, -0/+2What else is new. Texas always wins. The red state they love to hate.
- crunkydelic, on 05/18/2009, -0/+2Austin used to be great place. Now every bartender in the country wants to move there...I grew up in Austin and the population explosion (Used to be a pop. of 300K...now it's a million) is just too much to deal with. The town has the cultural benefit of a major liberal arts college and all the young energy that entails...but its infrastructure is woefully inadequate. Love to visit but I think I'll stick to living in a city (Dallas) where I can get work and maintain a decent standard of living.
- foofightrs777, on 05/18/2009, -0/+2That would be two things. Just trying to help keep count for you.
- inactive, on 05/18/2009, -4/+6Portland, OR is a really nice city. I LOVE it there! If I were ever to move, the Portland, OR area would be on the top of my list.
- darkciti2, on 05/19/2009, -0/+1Atlanta, baby!
Frisco East... - efolgate, on 05/19/2009, -0/+1Sarasota and Cape Coral? Seriously? I have lived in Florida all of my life, and those towns will ALWAYS be retirement towns. Sarasota has become a little younger. I wonder if the people who write these articles have even visited these cities. Statistics don't always tell the story about a city.
- inactive, on 05/18/2009, -0/+1....Generation DOH
- Elranzer, on 05/19/2009, -0/+1Texas, unlike Oregon, is about the only state with a thriving job market.
- friday1970, on 05/18/2009, -0/+1Used to be nice city with one of the greatest racing venues in the world.
- joe8pack, on 05/19/2009, -0/+1if I may paraphrase John F. Kennedy , a falling tide sinks all boats. Texas is not an island that can remain unscathed when the tsunami arrives. This crisis will last for years.
- asielen, on 05/18/2009, -2/+2This isn't an accurate measurement of anything this study wishes to measure. There are a lot of other reasons people move to some of these places then because the city is hip. Also, it could be argued that some of the "hippest cities" are the ones with colleges in them where recent graduates don't have to move to find work.
- dragonrebornn, on 05/18/2009, -1/+1Des Moines FTW
- swoopdog, on 05/18/2009, -2/+2you must not live there.
its not that great I left home because I heard how great PDX was.
it rains all the time, it sucks during the winter, its economy is in the *****. The people are rude and stuck up. - anillop, on 05/18/2009, -1/+1Why is it that the 3 major magnet cities in the US (New York, Los Angales, and Chicago) were not listed?
- inactive, on 05/18/2009, -1/+1what I live in Cape Coral?
I like it, but it is far far far from "hip"
the town was incorporated in the 70s
in the early 2000s lots of young christian republicans moved here thinking they would live like kings and queens driving up the housing market and living way beyond their means.
most of them in the past year have been royally screwed and yes they find a way to blame it all on Clinton and the democrats some how?
also unless you work remotely or for yourself there are no real jobs down here for you.
other then that its awesome!
and if you do move down here: don't buy a boat its a big headache rent or find a friend who has one. - edcrosay, on 05/18/2009, -2/+2***** hipsters.
GTFO of Portland. - CookieOfFortune, on 05/18/2009, -1/+1I think it's funny that Texas has 3 cities above Portland... being as it's Texas and all.
- edcrosay, on 05/18/2009, -1/+1I ***** hate how hipsters have claimed PBR as their own.
I drink it, not because it is "cool", but because I'm cheap.
Unfortunately, I only have the funds to choose from PBR, Hamms, Keystone, Busch and Natty. Pabst tastes the best of those, but whenever I buy it I feel dirty. - chamorro, on 05/18/2009, -3/+2The only good thing about Oregon is that there's no sales tax and you don't have to pump your own gas.
- varunb007, on 05/18/2009, -4/+3haha, that's what i was thinking as i was looking at the list. i'm surprised san francisco didn't make it. it seems a lot of people from my undergrad and grad school ended up there. in fact, i'll be heading up there soon :P
- edwartica, on 05/18/2009, -2/+1Wow, with grammar like that - I don't fill the least bit threatened by your kind.
- renevrivero, on 05/19/2009, -1/+0This merely follows what our great President tells them they should do after college: Not make any money.
- Satanael, on 05/18/2009, -10/+8Texas > You
All of our major cities made the list. - kuzotz, on 05/18/2009, -4/+1I met some people from Portland when I was in Beijing, and they were really ***** cool, and really laid back. That's the stereotype Portland gets, but right now that couple lives in S.Korea. I'm living in Japan at the moment, but places in the US I would live include, Austin, Portland, Seatle.
But I really don't like the US all that much and prefer to maybe Istanbul XD. From oklahoma city btw. - inactive, on 05/18/2009, -6/+3It's the smell of garbage, the smell of sewage and the crime that attracts the "hip"....lol
Fact of life #356: The denser the population, the more dysfunctional the population. - benburkhart, on 05/18/2009, -5/+1dugg down because the WSJ said 'hipster'
- digitalArtform, on 05/18/2009, -9/+3So what was the 'thrive' part of the article?
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