Entries by John DesCamp

What?? Is the Portland housing market finally cooling off?

Don’t hold  your breath. It isn’t happening. At least, not unless we have a regional or national economic catastrophe.  Portland is rapidly becoming as unaffordable as San Francisco for young, two earner  families and for everyone else as well. Below there’s a  link to an article last week in the Portland Tribune.  Or, for a […]

Locking Their Hearts Together

Portland is catching up with major European cities in some odd but interesting ways.  That’s just like Portland, isn’t it? In the last 5 years a lock fetish has swept some of the major cities of Europe.  We’re talking about Paris, Amsterdam, Budapest and Rome.  Farther afield, in Tokyo.  On some of these cities’ most […]

Of Dental Woes and Gratitude

Someone else has been grinding my teeth…… July, 2016 A few days ago, I found myself sitting in my least favorite chair. You know the one; it’s that 8-way plastic covered recliner that’s upholstered in fake leather.  The leather is the pale brown dirty white color of those lumpy shoes they sell to senior citizens at […]