Thinking about moving to Portland.

[angel mkiv]

Originally Posted by e1_griego

Lots of government jobs in Salem which is 45min south of PDX (if you're looking to stay in gov't). Car culture is pretty fail in the NW. Lots of the cars from the "doing it wrong" thread are from the NW and it's a pretty accurate representation. The NW car community generally is broke as hell.

Salem is cheap to live and close to everything (1hr from: PDX, mountains, coast) but it's a mostly quiet town with only 150k residents.

Job market in Ore. isn't great. Weather isn't as bad as everyone says though I think Seattle gets more grey/rain than Oregon, I'd have to look it up to confirm.

I agree to this in the term of most s-chassis cars around are pretty shitty..only a select few nice 240's in the area.but hey maybe it's because it rains drift lube a lot and all are ruined??

[Cloud_Strife]

Originally Posted by angel mkiv

I agree to this in the term of most s-chassis cars around are pretty shitty..only a select few nice 240's in the area.but hey maybe it's because it rains drift lube a lot and all are ruined??

Damn I need to shut up. Anyway, just wanted to add on to this. It sucks trying to find a decent car up here, espeically an s chassis. They are always fucked, bondo, wrecks, rust, 4 different colors, and tons of issues. IF you do find a clean one, it has so much money and mods into it, it's more than likely out of your price range and no fun.

I've bought 4 cars since I've been here. In every case I took a plane or ride up to Seattle or down to Cali to get it. I've yet to find something decent in the area that isn't completely F*****. In this case, it's good to network, and find people who want to sell BEFORE they post on CL.

Just my two cents