[m5james]

You should be fine with that salary. While I'm not concrete on housing prices there, I'm affording a 5 bedroom, movie room, 3 bathroom, 3 car garage home about 30 min north of Seattle on slightly more pay and I assume Seattle area prices are higher than Portland. I've only been to Portland a few times, so I've got no advice where to look, but in short that salary should cover you pretty well there.

- Pros are that there's no tax and they pump your gas.
- Cons are 50mph highways, downtown is dirty as hell (trash everywhere, homeless tent neighborhoods, etc) and the roads sucks as in their full of potholes