Portland, the land of expensive housing??

Barry Sweet / AP file
"The Space needle or as I like to call it, the coffee cock, pierces this memorable skyline -nic"

Tim Neuwerth and I were browsing through the census a while ago looking for places to live since we just graduated from College at SOU. Since we both live in Medford, Oregon, we decided Portland was a good town since the tech sector was recovering from the 2000 stock market crash and the cost-of-living looked low compared to the job market. According to this report this isn't true. Link In fact Portland is number 4 on Forbes worst places to live, with Seattle being the first. Why is the world trying to keep us nerds down?