Originally Posted by kane

There are a lot of small towns around Portland that have grown a lot over the last 10 years because people have moved out there and commute in. The town I grew up in had about 2,500 people in it when I graduated high school there in 1989. There was a decent size city between that town and Portland. You had to go through that city in order to get to Portland which made commuting there a real bitch. In 1995 they built an expressway around that city so you could bypass it and get right to the freeway. Since then the little town I grew up in has tripled in size and is basically now a suburb of Portland. A lot of families moved out there because they could get a lot more house for the money. The growth was so fast that the schools couldn't keep up and had start busing some of the kids to different nearby schools.