Oregonians are fed up with the rising home prices in Portland and seem to think Californians are to blame.
"No Californians" stickers are mysteriously popping up on for sale signs in front homes that are on the market.
The stickers resemble a no smoking sign with a silhouette of the Golden State slashed out in red.
Realtor Lori Fenwick told The Oregonian that she learned about the trend when one of her buyers sent her a photo of a sign with one of the stickers. When Fenwick posted image on Facebook. she immediately heard from colleagues who had spotted the same sticker on signs.
"A lot of these homes are going into bidding wars and going over ask price," Quinn Irvine, of M Realty, a Realtor who has seen the stickers, told The Oregonian. "And a lot of these guys are getting outbid. And I think they're going around to agents who have properties that have sold over asking price and putting anti-California stickers."
While bidding wars and cash purchases might be typical in the San Francisco Bay Area, the crazy competitive housing market is new in Portland. The median price for a metro-area home has gone up 10 percent in the past year to $320,000. [bwaaaa-haaaa-haaa........that's only a down payment around here!]
Both Fenwick and Irvine told The Oregonian that many of the buyers are from California and often they can pay in cash.
[Yeah, so.......the same thing is happening in the Silicon Valley with ALL CASH IN THE MILLLIONS from buyers from China or India. You don't see people in the SF Bay Area putting up signs with a slash mark over India, China or wherever.]
The one-sided Oregon rivalry with California--some would call it misplaced envy of our weather and variety of recreational choices--is nothing new. Back in 1971, Governor Tom McCall famously said "Come visit, don't stay" in a speech about the tourist industry. It's thought that he was specifically referring to the Californians moving to the state in droves in search of a better life. Later in the 1970s, "Don't Californicate Oregon" bumper stickers began appearing.
Oregon is only a state to drive through on the REAL JEWEL of the Northwest SEATTLE, WA!
Hell, they aren't even smart enough to be trusted with pumping their own gas!
Your collective inability to acknowledge this obvious truth makes you all look like fools.
Old story. There were complaints along this line 15 years ago.
Houses in Portland are still dirt cheap compared to the Bay Area and they are in beautiful old neighborhoods filled with lovely 100year old maple trees and 1910s homes made from milled port orford Cedar.
Nice people and a great place to live.
My wife hates pumping her own gas especially when it is so much cheaper to have someone else do it in Oregon.
If you were more successful you might have made it up there yourself.
rubato wrote:
If you were more successful you might have made it up there yourself.
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rubato
I am very happy living in Pleasant Hill, Ca in a home that is PAID FOR (no mortgage payments) - - - why I'd want to live in that provincial mud hole with its overcast days and non-welcoming people?
btw: I posted this in hopes of a response from YOU - - - Thanks for playing!
Your collective inability to acknowledge this obvious truth makes you all look like fools.
File under the more things change the more they stay the same. Going on 50 years of the same slogan, no matter how much the city landscape has changed. Of course, the state's main college is known as the University of California at Eugene because of the foundational strategy of recruiting California kids, and lots of them, to attend and pay out of state tuition to help make the school more self-sufficient (my memory of the last budget is that less than 5% of the operating funds come from taxpayers and over 20% of the students are from CA). If a sun-loving Californian can adapt to the weather, they may end up loving it here, or they can be like the woman we bought our home from and go scurrying back south after one long, cold, dark winter (almost as tough as Gob describes Aussie Land). (btw, my member photo is the view I wake up to, most mornings).
Portland is a lovely place with nice people and relatively cheap housing. Central Calif. does not have the beautiful neighborhoods and nice architecture (overall) and most places don't have the kind of socially cohesive neighborhoods we saw in Portland. Portland also has a great music and arts scene, fantastic restaurants. Educated liberal population. A lot going for it. We were up there for our niece's graduation from OES and walked around our old neighborhood (Laurelhurst) truly spectacular place and by the look of the houses and yards; very prosperous these days.
Why the hell do you live in a cesspool like Sta. Cruz?
You obviously have the hots for Portland, OR........oh I forgot......you HAVE to live there.
Not that it's a bad place to live except for the crime and homeless bums.
There is a large cultural overlap between the two. Santa Cruz is a smaller place and has a much nicer climate. Love the redwoods, Brown Pelicans, Peregrine Falcons (I heard one hunting last week), playing volleyball in the sand does amazing things for women's legs. Population is a lot more athletic and slimmer here overall. Portland-Vancouver has phenomenal obesity. All of the big markets in Portland provided electric carts so 400lb + people can buy even more food.
“If you trust in yourself, and believe in your dreams, and follow your star. . . you'll still get beaten by people who spent their time working hard and learning things and weren't so lazy.”
My wife and I spent several days at the Furnace Creek Inn in death valley earlier this year. There was a proper rainstorm happening when we arrived which felt pretty special since they only get 2in of rain a year.
We met groups of French tourists and helped each other out by taking photos at Zabriske point. Stunning place, one of my favorites on earth. Have you been there?
Some places can't really be captured in pictures. The Grand Canyon, Monument Valley, Death Valley, the Painted Desert, Yosemite, Alaska.
rubato really should be in some godforsaken desert somewhere. just to give him some quiet time...., to think.
Pointless...
You're talking about rubato....
No matter where rube is, (be it Polynesian paradise or godforsaken desert...) the one thing we can be absolutely certain of is that "thinking" will not be on the menu...
