These Are The 10 Most Miserable Cities In Oregon

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1. Monmouth does not need to be on this list. Monmouth is a beautiful town with a lot to offer..but it is in fact a college town. The numbers are going to be drastically lower in the categories your looking for because of that. I’ve lived in Monmouth\ independence my entire life and you will not find a better town in Oregon. The people are friendly, the crime rate is much lower than the other towns listed, it’s a cute little town and is townies are happy as clams with it.

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2. Survey comes out of Durham, NC .That tells me alot about this worthless article! I lived in Eugene, Bend, Lakeview, La Grande and Clay Creek (Oregon coastal mountains) I have friends in Springfield, Portland and Yachats. All these areas are fantastic places and I enjoyed living there very much. I would take any of Oregon’s towns over where I live now. Had to move to So Cal for work but my heart is still in Oregon. The people there are happy, mellow and friendly! More than I can say for the jerks I deal with in So Cal although my desert city of Hesperia is rural and pretty nice. In my opinion this article is stupid and I had to chime in! By the way GO DUCKS!

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3. Sheridan is right where it should be, #3, though I would have put it at #1. I lived there for 6 years. If your looking for meth users and the thievery that comes with it Sheridan is the place to go. Management and operations at the city hall is a pathetic joke and are unfriendly and uncooperative, especially if you rent. If you don’t want your things stolen rent a storage unit NOT located in Sheridan or bolt it down and strip the bolt heads (Did I mention the thieves?). At one time Sheridan was a nice place, then the lumber mills shutdown and anyone with money left. The people left are either commuters who aren’t interested, welfare families and single pregnant teenage girls (with and without previous children), teenage boys with no jobs and no opportunities and it has one of the worst public school systems in the state. While located in a very beautiful spot tucked away in the northwest corner of the Willamette Valley, it’s dying. Sheridan’s one saving grace is the Sheridan Japanese School, an excellent, top notch 4-12 charter school that is very challenging and relatively selective public charter school. Unfortunately, school district resents the school, probably for blowing them out of the water when it comes to academic excellence and the Japanese School gets treated like the ugly step child, when the school district should be using the Japanese School as a benchmark to overcome their own woeful deficiencies.

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4. just cause a person dont have a collage degree isn’t married or doesn’t own their home does not mean they are miserable because of it

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   1. *doesn’t
      *college

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5. Just because you have a miserable life in Sheridan does not make the town an awful place. Like any other town on Earth Sheridan has its good and bad. Your bad experience with the city hall and the other people in our community isn’t typical by any means! What is typical is that in any community there are trash talkiing know it alls like Hinge here who seem to know the problems but refuse to to take action to better or community! If you don’t like to town Hinge Weilher then you know the roads out of town because the town folk of Sheridan don’t want or need people such as yourself! You could very easily point out what you think is wrong but have you looked at what was right and beautiful? No? Bet its because you are in fact just a MISERABLE person. Do us all a big favor and keep your big fat mud flaps closed and or leave!

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6. How come Salem is not number one with any doubt????????? Lived there for 8 years. Complete hell hole. Even the homeless people have their own special hell called UGM. Ran by religious right wing bigots. Back in Portland now and I would NEVER go the 44 miles south to Salem again

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7. I think there is an error is saying the list is based on cities of 2000 people or more. Based on the number of missing towns, including my hometown, my guess is that you meant 4000.

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8. Lmao I think this list is accurate. Just because you chose to see only the good things does not mean bad doesn’t exist. Calm down u defensive animals

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9. I can see where Salem would be on this list. It’s sad that the city can’t take care of the homeless situation. Nice they are building a new police station and renovating North Salem High School but, can’t come up with a viable solution for the homeless like converting shipping containers into shelters on one of the many empty lots around town, getting mental health ect., to that population.

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10. an unfair survey, what they used for data is stupid…Not everyone has to go to college to be successful and there are many wealthy farmers In Oregon. living in Oregon is like being on vacation every day. unless you live in Portland or Eugene ..Most places in Oregon experience light traffic and travel times…and in every town on this list near 50% of the population own their own homes or farms…oh wait they for got to tell you about the farmers… I am pretty sure whoever wrote this hasn’t even lived in Oregon…so they shouldn’t be judging it… ask the people in those town how they feel about their homes

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