Hillsboro is west of Portland...home of Intel...and site of lots and lots of new housing...one development of which, Orenco Station is a pretty cool experiment in old fashioned housing and retail combined...
So I don't know what a 2 BR would cost, but It will be reasonably priced out there and you'd have lots of choice.
Hillsboro used to be a pretty rural area...it's had lots of growth...but still has much beauty and great roads for cycling.

I live in Portland and teach at a college out near HIllsboro.

ahem....Portland and Seattle....think Boston & New York...Portland has retained more funky eccentric small city character as opposed to Seattle's super slick and ultra hip modernism --although it's changing. We have a bumper sticker here that says "Keep Portland Weird."

We are transplanted New Englanders who have lived here almost 20 years and love it. Portland can really open your heart....