Portland is one of the best places to live and get good employment out of the whole country!! No wonder our real estate market is so HOT!! That's what Forbes Magazine says- Here is the quote- and you can click on the link to go there yourself
Here is the quote form Forbes Magazine- April 2009
No. 10: Portland-Vancouver-Beaverton, Ore.-Wash.
Despite bigger losses in overall employment than the other top large American cities, Portland-Vancouver-Beaverton rounds out the top 10 with only a small decline in job growth (2.2%) from 2007 to 2008. Its education and health-services sectors continued to grow, gaining 3.2% last year. The big loss in employment for the Portland area largely came from the natural resources, mining and construction sector (down 11.2%) as the once-hot real estate sector cooled. Other tumbles came from transportation and utilities (down 4.4%) and manufacturing (down 4.2%). Since 2006, Portland's employment prospects have steadily improved; it jumped from a 30th-place rank among large cities to 11th last year
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