Customer Reviews

Newcomer's Handbook for Moving to and Living in Portland: Including Vancouver, Gresham, Hillsboro, Beaverton, and Wilsonville

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THE NEWCOMER'S HANDBOOK FOR MOVING TO AND LIVING IN PORTLAND: INCLUDING VANCOUVER, GRESHAM, HILLSBORO, BEAVERTON, AND WILSONVILLE is an exceptional book for relocators. However, even non-relocators will find it very enjoyable. It features great coverage of the city of Portland, including the very desirable West Hills and Bridlemile sections, as well as its incorporated suburbs, yet it also covers unincorporated areas such as Oatfield (which is, for mail delivery purposes, part of Milwaukie), unincorporated western Multnomah county (which has both Portland AND Lake Oswego ZIP Codes), and Cedar Mill (which has a Portland ZIP Code), as well as the often-overlooked towns of Wilsonville and Happy Valley, and Vancouver, Washington and its suburbs. Many great ideas for education, dining, house-hunting, shopping, health/fitness, and recreation are included in this book. DON'T PASS THIS BOOK UP UNDER ANY CIRCUMSTANCES!!!!!!!!!!

I just visited Portland for the first time and was glad to have purchased this book before doing so. Great neighborhood profiles and all kinds of additional information. My favorite travel series so far- better than Frommer's.

We were considering moving to Portland, Oregon and recently took a scouting mission there to see whether that was an idea worth pursuing. This book proved invaluable and I would highly recommend it to anyone considering the same thing. Its neighborhood descriptions were spot on and helped us focus our search.

Great book for anyone looking to relocate - or even for locals. I could have done without the generic sections on how to hire a mover or buy a house, but it's well worth skipping these parts for the info to be gotten. Great overview of neighborhoods, local resources, parks, etc.

Basically everything I was looking for in a book since it provides a good initial sense of Portland's neighborhoods and suburbs (basically which one's might be nice to live in and which one's sound terrible)

One area that could be improved are the maps in the book. They are a little weak and the could be indexed against the neighborhood descriptions.

A mess of information for sure or is it that Oregon is that complicated demographically. I did not find it easy reading and its assistance to my needs was minimal. Add to that the fact that the version was outdated and the book was used and full of bookmarks and ugly dirty pages, I glanced through it, could not make heads or tails and said to myself the best way is just take a road trip if indeed the desire to live in Oregon persists. Good fishing, I hear! Nice educated crowd? Let's hope so. It is crammed with information and perhaps for a different type of researches might fill the gap just fine. I guess what I expected was a very functional, easy to grasp, well organized book on the subject of relocation. No dice. Paid little for it, received little from it. I guess is an even trade. 3 Staruskies!

The perfect book for planning an upcoming move across the country -- great insights and advice on every page

We are planning to move to PDX in about two years. We know the city somewhat, but this book is giving us some good information.