This looks cleaner than Monaco. I saw barely any graffiti, let alone litter or homeless tents. Maybe I missed them (the tents), but in any case, why is a model city like this suddenly the subject of myths about hordes of homeless and being allegedly the trash capital of the US in much the same way as Naples is in Europe? I don't get it. I'm all for making fun of cities for their problems, but I legit don't see any here.
@bestchannelintheworld When I first visited Portland in 2021, I was shocked at the lack of homelessness and tents. Coming from Seattle, I thought this was a load of overblown fearmongering by the media as up where I live it was way worse. Turned out I was in the wrong places, once I went to downtown proper, it was like a war zone. I kid you not, I didn’t even get out of my car, it was that scary. The problems appeared to be more concentrated to certain areas rather than spread out. Pearl district/nob hill/Hawthorne /Mississippi Ave were lovely though. Went there in 2024 and it is much better than it was at the height of the pandemic. Much cleaner.
@@bobnas oh okay, so there was a problem and they eventually fixed it. Got it. By the way, this NEVER happens in Europe, if a city here slips into third-world status, it will stay this way - forever. Essentially why I didn't believe at first that Portland ever had problems, we're not used to them being possible to solve so I didn't even consider it as an outcome.
@bestchannelintheworld never thought about it that way. You’re absolutely right. The US does get it fixed a lot quicker in most cases. In Europe, it almost never gets fixed, it takes entire generations to change an area in some cases.
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This looks cleaner than Monaco. I saw barely any graffiti, let alone litter or homeless tents. Maybe I missed them (the tents), but in any case, why is a model city like this suddenly the subject of myths about hordes of homeless and being allegedly the trash capital of the US in much the same way as Naples is in Europe? I don't get it. I'm all for making fun of cities for their problems, but I legit don't see any here.
@bestchannelintheworld When I first visited Portland in 2021, I was shocked at the lack of homelessness and tents. Coming from Seattle, I thought this was a load of overblown fearmongering by the media as up where I live it was way worse.
Turned out I was in the wrong places, once I went to downtown proper, it was like a war zone. I kid you not, I didn’t even get out of my car, it was that scary.
The problems appeared to be more concentrated to certain areas rather than spread out.
Pearl district/nob hill/Hawthorne /Mississippi Ave were lovely though.
Went there in 2024 and it is much better than it was at the height of the pandemic. Much cleaner.
@@bobnas oh okay, so there was a problem and they eventually fixed it. Got it. By the way, this NEVER happens in Europe, if a city here slips into third-world status, it will stay this way - forever. Essentially why I didn't believe at first that Portland ever had problems, we're not used to them being possible to solve so I didn't even consider it as an outcome.
@bestchannelintheworld never thought about it that way. You’re absolutely right. The US does get it fixed a lot quicker in most cases. In Europe, it almost never gets fixed, it takes entire generations to change an area in some cases.
Almost deserted.