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Goose Hollow

Built on the site of a filled-in creek, Goose Hollow remains green and relatively serene, except when the Timbers play.

It’s a place where tourists and professionals pour into a bougie food court for $8 ice-cream sundaes, a new development that keeps locks on its restroom doors to avoid the horror of the area’s sizable transient population daring to wash their faces.

Industrial Eastside

For locals still convinced that Portland lost its soul, the inner eastside is where Portland jumped the charcuterie. But imagining a complete transformation rather underestimates how deep the area’s weirdness lays.

Division Street

Over the years, Division Street has developed and changed with the rest of the city, but it still maintains a beloved sense of Northwest quirk and a dedication to local tradition while having become the epicenter of Portland’s restaurant culture

Brooklyn/ Lower Powell Boulevard

Brooklyn is poised to be the new destination for close-in Southeast Portland homeowners and folks looking for a little less hustle in a neighborhood that still feels very much like a different city altogether.

Sellwood

Sellwood-Moreland is a proud Southeast enclave, keeper of the city’s history through landmarks and the antiques trade, and cloistered away by greenspace and the river on the city’s southern edge.

Reed College, Woodstock and Mount Scott-Arleta

Although Woodstock is the only commercial district lying anywhere near Reed College, there’s no part of the city less redolent of college towns, though a whiff of professorial housing does linger.

Foster-Powell

With an influx of younger home buyers intermingling with the blue-collar lifers and long-standing Russian and East Asian communities, Foster-Powell is booming.

Lents

Long punch-lined as Felony Flats, Lents is now the new frontier for Portlanders seeking a reprieve from high house prices.

Southeast 82nd Avenue

Though first glance reveals a seemingly endless drag of car dealerships, vape shops and grim strip malls, further investigation finds gems in the form of mouthwateringly authentic Vietnamese pho, Mexican panaderías and concrete-slab pubs populated almost solely by neighborhood locals.

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