alt Hacker NewsThat I don't get about the PNW is the property prices of places hours away from any economic center that pays well enough to justify them. Are that many people still working remote for FAANG that those prices can be justified?
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noumenon1111 • today at 4:56 PM
No, but rich assholes like getting away from it all too.
antonyt • today at 4:44 PM
I have no doubts you're right, but got any examples? Just curious to see them.
coding123 • today at 4:39 PM
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I assume part of this is because there is a lot of national forest not that far from Portland, and aside from a few exceptions here and there you can't buy a piece for yourself. So if you do want your own piece of rural wilderness you have to buy farther way. And Portland does have millions of people, many of whom have the financial resources to buy a little chunk of their own paradise.
Personally I'd pay a solid chunk of change for a campsite size chunk of land on the east fork of the Sandy River near Mt. Hood, right where Nottingham Campground is. I'd never leave.