r/Eugene • u/themetalship • Jun 19 '24

What is it like living in Eugene? Moving

My wife might be getting a high paying healthcare job in Eugene, so we are curious what it is like to live there. I have a background in education (direct instruction, academic site management, higher ed). I'm open to other career paths, as the job prospects worry me a bit.

We also want to know how it is to live there. We lived in az for most of our lives. We've been in Texas (DFW) for 3 years. Any insight is appreciated.

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u/saucemancometh Jun 19 '24

Eugene has the highest per capita homeless population in the country just barely edging out LA exacerbated by a bunch of non local homeless who moved here because drug possession/consumption was decriminalized. Certain stretches of town have issues with tent camping on public right of way and private property. Aging infrastructure with rough road and terrible drivers who don’t know how to merge/zipper

Source: Life long resident

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u/Harlowful Jun 19 '24

Actually, the city has been doing a lot of improvements to the roads and sewers in the last ten years.

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u/saucemancometh Jun 19 '24

I’m in civil construction and business is cracking right now and things are slowly getting better (shouts out the 2-way conversions of one way roads) but it’s still not great out there. We have a lot of sidewalks that need attention. Downside of being a tree city is it really wrecks the sidewalks, impacting walkability in residential neighborhoods

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u/Boring-Pea4738 Jun 19 '24

Not just the sidewalks, as a local service plumber we get a lot of work from tree roots.