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Oregon has no sales tax, and as such its income and property taxes are much higher than many states. This is especially true in Multnomah County (where Portland is located), due to county income and business taxes on top of state. See, i.e.

http://credc.sterling.net/business/infocenter/Clark-Multnoma...

I've lived in both San Francisco and Portland, and anecdotally I found Portland's infrastructure and services to be far inferior to those in San Francisco: worse roads (climate doesn't help), more homeless, more difficult city bureaucracy, etc. This is of course somewhat subjective, so YMMV.

Personally, if I were to move from the Bay Area due to cost of living and taxes, I'd be looking at Texas.

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I haven't seen that many actual homeless in Portland. Mainly hippies, trustafarians, outdoorsmen, and people posing as homeless in order to make a quick buck.

Here in the Boston area? Oh hell yeah.

Good to know; I live in the south bay, not SF, so I can't say anything for the city proper, other than BaRT seems to be a decent way to get around.

Arguably the real reason many people are keen to move to Portland, especially from California, is that it's the whitest city in North America.

I presume by "arguably" you mean "I have a bizarrely distorted worldview and therefore I'm going to assert this fact that I have just produced from the depths of my colon."

No, actually it was the articles about white flight from California I've encountered over the last few years.

And the reason those articles stated was that people were leaving for "whiter cities"? I think that's a stretch. The last I heard a lot of people were leaving California because the white collar jobs were leaving California. As I'm sure you're aware, there are more white people working white-collar jobs, so maybe that's the reason, eh?

If those articles said that people were leaving because California wasn't "white enough" or whatever, I'd love to see them.

LOL, well I wouldn't call that a "reason", but yeah, it's white as fuck here. I have no idea why, but that's the way it is.

Mob violence and various laws, actually. More than once mobs in the Northwest rounded up Asians and marched them to the docks.

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