Left months ago. The city was never paradise. But a decade ago it was The Nice Metro on the west coast. Reasonable housing. Mild weather. Low crime. Decent jobs. Shall issue. No sales tax. Weekly events in central downtown. Fairs, expos, markets, etc. Bum and panhandlers sure, but never swarms of them.
10 years later downtown is literally a warzone with hundreds of bums/addicts camped on businesses doorways. Rent has tripled, taxes higher than ever but infrastructure is crumbling, and the government has steadily grown from hippie libertarians to full blown commie apologists.
Head for total collapse and I'm so glad I get to watch from a distance.
I'm kind of serious- do you think the attention that the series Portlandia kind of fucked up the city? I understand it was supposed to be satire- but I don't think many of the people who watched it were in on the joke.
It was happening before the show. That is how the show got inspired to mock the absurdity in the first place. It's been a grunge/degenerate haven for a long time. The only thing that's changed is the violence. Before it was harmless hippy weirdo junkies.
The constant stream of orange man bad and woke degenerate propaganda is really warping people's minds.
I was there in 2007 and it wasn't bad- I loved the rest of Oregon (although there was a serious meth epidemic). I seriously wanted to live there-- I still have a dream of retiring there, because I like seasons. The South is great and all, but the fucking heat is a real PITA.
It normalized it to an extent. I know I was pissed as a local having two people from out of town make that show because it totally lacked nuance and a narrative voice of reason. I mean the two main people on the show were the exact type of people who deserve the mocking and scorn they were dishing out IMO.
It kind of gave all of these woke people an out to be like "see look, we're not that bad. we're not like those people" but then of course they went along with all of it each step of the way and naturally most of them were that way.
It was actually a show for all the transplants and other liberals from major liberal cities and had nothing to do with Portland itself. People who are from here aren't actually like that for the most part.
Change is hard. But speaking as a portlander, I’m jealous
Name checks out /s
I laughed out loud at this one
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Left months ago. The city was never paradise. But a decade ago it was The Nice Metro on the west coast. Reasonable housing. Mild weather. Low crime. Decent jobs. Shall issue. No sales tax. Weekly events in central downtown. Fairs, expos, markets, etc. Bum and panhandlers sure, but never swarms of them.
10 years later downtown is literally a warzone with hundreds of bums/addicts camped on businesses doorways. Rent has tripled, taxes higher than ever but infrastructure is crumbling, and the government has steadily grown from hippie libertarians to full blown commie apologists.
Head for total collapse and I'm so glad I get to watch from a distance.
I'm kind of serious- do you think the attention that the series Portlandia kind of fucked up the city? I understand it was supposed to be satire- but I don't think many of the people who watched it were in on the joke.
It was happening before the show. That is how the show got inspired to mock the absurdity in the first place. It's been a grunge/degenerate haven for a long time. The only thing that's changed is the violence. Before it was harmless hippy weirdo junkies.
The constant stream of orange man bad and woke degenerate propaganda is really warping people's minds.
I was there in 2007 and it wasn't bad- I loved the rest of Oregon (although there was a serious meth epidemic). I seriously wanted to live there-- I still have a dream of retiring there, because I like seasons. The South is great and all, but the fucking heat is a real PITA.
It normalized it to an extent. I know I was pissed as a local having two people from out of town make that show because it totally lacked nuance and a narrative voice of reason. I mean the two main people on the show were the exact type of people who deserve the mocking and scorn they were dishing out IMO.
It kind of gave all of these woke people an out to be like "see look, we're not that bad. we're not like those people" but then of course they went along with all of it each step of the way and naturally most of them were that way.
It was actually a show for all the transplants and other liberals from major liberal cities and had nothing to do with Portland itself. People who are from here aren't actually like that for the most part.
Me too pede, me too
(Fellow sad portland pede)