I don’t think they will ever improve, they are just like the crackheads and fentanyl bozos that they allow to live there. Need to hit rock bottom. That might/probably never happen
Lived in SE PDX for 5 yrs. Have two small kids. Sold and left in Jan because of lowering quality of schools and increasing property crime, trash, and violence. Moved to the suburbs far away. Has been amazing. Rooting for PDX but couldn't risk my family's education and health in the hopes it gets better in the next few years.
Born and raised over 50 years can’t wait to finish out my work years and get far far away. I’m so sad of what has become of a beautiful small city where kids could actually ride bikes on the 205 bike path .
Then you aren't worthy of Portland, nor of the state of Oregon, because you're not willing to vote in ways that will effectively deal with the homelessness and the crime, in civilized, humane, and adult-level terms. PLEASE GO AWAY AS SOON AS YOU ARE ABLE. Go learn your lesson the hard way when you have to fill out a FEMA form.
@@duvine3882 People need to know it’s better outside Portland. And that this Is NOT happening everywhere. And yeah, I got more time since no stress dealing with Portland now. So I got time to talk trash about the city and will continue to until it’s cleaned up, or 20 years later. Whatever comes first.
@@Ghanja007 Is happening everywhere there is a big city or a dead town like those filled with meth on the coast. If I were you I wouldn't announce that you trash talk as that negates your post.
I am a taxpayer with two businesses. I enjoy biking and getting outdoors. I can no longer bike because people live on the bike paths legally apparently! There is no police coverage except for murder which would be a little too late then but… It takes 5 to 9 minutes to get through the 911. People might be leaving because they’re paying taxes and getting no services for them! My tax dollars are paying for the bike paths people sleep on and the sidewalks they build houses on! People leave because the homeless and the criminals and the homeless criminals have more rights than we do as taxpayers! Let’s see what it’s like when the high-paying taxpayers leave… Portland needs to address this. Yes I too am looking to leave
So the wealthier people, who pay most of the actual taxes that run things, are leaving, and younger people who make a lot less money are replacing them. I wonder what will happen.
Having left Portland in the last couple years, it's definitely better somewhere else. I haven't had any loss to vandalism or theft in the last 3yrs, that's probably better than most Portlanders can say.
If you ignore the fact that the crime rate in PDX is at a decade-high and is still like 1/3 of Detroit's crime rate, and that PDX has grown by 25% this century whereas Detroit's population has dropped by 1/3, and, uh.... No. That comparison is lazy, poor, and makes no sense whatsoever
The "younger" moving in may not mind for the first few months or maybe a year, but the mindset changes after the reality sets in that this is Portland now. When I moved here the city was great. I loved it. Yes there were challenges, but not close to what there is now. I have had so many friends leave the city due to the cost of living, crime, political views, homelessness, and how dirty the city has become. I want to love the city and am trying to serve my community in Multnomah, but the past couple years, it's been tough and keeps getting tougher. I hope things brighten and the joys of what I saw just 4 years ago reemerge and remind us why Portland is a great city. Until then I'm just going to be patient and will cast my vote this coming election season!
These are problems every city faces and the new up and coming cities will face as well. When you have millions of People living in a small area, you will get more trash, more crime, higher prices etc. When that happens, people with families decide to move out to the suburbs. new suburbs are beautiful and really lovely, but they are not economical sustainable (unless, you pay more than 50% in taxes and people don't want to pay higher taxes) The only economical sustainable places are big cities (assuming no corruption happens), less roads to fix, less pipes to fix, less taxes because there are more people paying. New Towns don't experience high taxes because the federal government subsidies them and because they are new, things won't start breaking until after 30 years.
@@colombiantom I've always lived in big cities. I like an element of messiness in a city. This is completely different. Sanctimonious liberals, hateful conservatives, the sackler family, police unions, and general intellectual laziness of Americans made Portland a disaster area.
I have lived in Portland since 2009. I get things change but I don't have enough money to constantly change my car windows or enough patience to shoo homeless and criminals out of my house gently at any hour. Wondering if my daughter and I are going to see needles in the park, a man whipping it out / wacking it or asking if we "want some," homeless people voiding on top of concrete/ in the park. 99% of the people I grew up with in Portland and loved around have moved away. Car racing, mad max like vehicles and driver's, shootings and numbing ourselves when we see people fighting/ shooting up on the side of the street... Just walk by and ignore it. I keep wishing I could love it again but Portland isn't safe enough for me to raise my child. I don't want my kids to normalize this behavior.
thing is, this isn't just a Portland or a "Blue State" problem. You can see the same thing in Kansas City Mo. Or Little Rock Arkansas. Or Nashville Tennessee. Or Lexington Kentucky. Our problems are not red or blue. They are Rich and Poor.
As long as you don’t drive you don’t have to worry about car windows. Portland has decent public transportation and most of it is really walkable. And when you “want some” you can usually find some.
@danieldaniels7571 The transportation system here is flooded with drug addicts And it's unsafe, And filthy. Plus some people need a car to get to places the transportation system doesn't go.
Not one mention of the real reason people don’t want to be there It’s the rampant homelessness that’s allowed that is what’s making people leave who wants to raise their kids in the middle of that? Let alone have a business and expect to attract people ! It is neglect lying in tents on the street it’s not being nice build them a place they have to go to not the streets
Believe me it’s not a home that they need. Take it from California cities who tried this they end up trashing the hotels. The real issue is rampant drug abuse which also leads to mental health issues. It’s come to that point that the street people obviously can’t take care of themselves. Mandatory rehabilitation programs and mental health programs is the only way. Otherwise it’s only going to get worse.
There are more open shelter beds than people on the street. The people choosing to live on the street are doing so because they don't want to give up taking drugs (one of the requirements). It is the homeless people's fault, and the weak city council that won't empower police to enforce the rules already on the books. Tough Love is needed.
@@co7314 Have you ever bothered staying at a shelter? Imagine having a bunch of your belongings, going to a shelter, having to throw away a ton of your belongings, sleep in a bad for ONE night, get thrown out at 6 am, and then not get a bed the next night. Ignorant people like you need to shut the fuck up
Spent 36 years in Portland and just moved away and it was the best decision by far. Nothing will change without better access to rehab. Portland has a drug problem, crime and homelessness is the byproduct.
Measure 110 threw gasoline onto the fire. It attracted an underclass of drug addicts from all over the country who take advantage of this to live and die from their destructive habits without any consequences. And the clueless politicians here wonder why no one is taking advantage of the drug treatment programs that were part of the Measure 110 package.
@@cspdx11 called intervention and the only way through is to force people to get off drugs. Criminals are integrated into the homeless and are not prosecuted for any crimes. Until those to things happen - nothing else matters
It isn't just the residents who are fleeing from Portland. I live in the Tacoma area and came down to Portland regularly between 2004 and 2019. By the summer of '19, what had only recently been a beautiful, charming city had degenerated into the Zombie Apocalypse. Half the people on the streets seemed to be dazed and crazed homeless drug addicts and mental patients. It was actually worse than Seattle. And that was just before Ted Wheeler decided to allow ANTIFA to burn and trash it in 2020. I've heard that something like 40% of businesses have left downtown in the last few years. Lotsa luck coming back from that. I grew up in the Northeast and remember what happened to its cities after the riots in the 60's. They never came back. Thank you, not, to all the progressives who wanted to "keep Portland weird." You only managed to turn it into Detroit with evergreens.
It was purposeful and deliberate, too. Yep, it was all fun & games when Trump was in office, a chance to demonstrate their righteous anger by burning down businesses, vandalizing property, and beating up innocent people because, well, ACAB and BLM and evil capitalists & shit. Now the politicians responsible for allowing this to happen are trying to hang on to what's left of their credibility and then ditch town and set up shop elsewhere, leaving the rest of the residents to pick up the pieces. Short of suspending Habeus and calling in the Nat'l Guard there's no solution to the dystopian mosh pit these people have created, because those of us who weren't responsible for the carnage aren't _about_ to pay the price it's ultimately going to cost to get Portland back to what it once was -- if that's even possible.
This is what thinking with your heart vs thinking with your head gets you. "We should take pitty on the homeless" vs " lock up that asshole who just broke into my car"
In older cities this has already happened multiple times. Suburban flight, will be followed by plummeting property values in the city, and then suburban investors come back into the city in 15-20 years, and the suburbanites move back to the city, while the city dwellers move out into the suburbs living in the now 30-40 year old housing areas. Then another 15-20 years passes and we do it all over again. People with money, push people without money, somewhere else.
You are familiar with how the price discovery process is part of how the market works? Same thing with this. Good people are going to leave, and Portland is going to become an even worse hell hole, before the tide changes and it begins to get better again.
“Older cities” in a US context is nonsensical. Suburban flight is not a natural phenomenon for the majority of world cities. What we have is a failure of systems in an corrupt 3rd world country that regulates incremental city growth to death. By all standards of health, education, and crime, the US is not a modern state.
It's going to make it too expensive for people to live in the suburbs without having a city job. Which is going to push the suburban working class poor out into rural communities or into public housing in the cities. Which means that businesses in retail and fast food will either have to close shop or have to raise their wages. Rent cost will skyrocket which it already has. The only good thing is that it might put pressure on accessory dwellings.
Random thoughts from Australia. Fewer people moving to Portland because all the sidewalks are over crowded with homeless people and no space available. Thanks I am here all week!! Cheers.
Is Ted Wheeler still there and anyone else on the City Council? Until they're gone don't expect anything to be different. Same crap just a different day.
I'm one of the two thousand that moved out......best thing I ever did! Took my business with me , settled in a smaller town with better politics and am doing well. I'll work in Portland , but I will never live there again.
The local government has destroyed the city along with the DA who won’t hold people accountable. Moving out of outer SE Portland was the best choice for my family.
The Mayor and his accomplices in the city council, the do nothing woke AF DA along with Governor Kate Brown should be criminally investigated for the negligence and apathy they have for people in this city.
Talking to a genZ from NYC and asked what brought him to Portland, the trees, mountains, ocean, desert, rivers, hiking, camping, hunting, fishing, arts, music? Nope, he came for the social street scene and food trucks. Keep Portland weird?
Born Oregonians are moving to places like small idaho towns the state is overrun with people coming as far as new york living in their cars or streets to do crack, heroin and number 1 meth with no repercussions.You see them doing hard drugs in public even the burbs everywhere in the streets and alleyways.But most disturbing i saw 8 year olds walking to school smoking joints on the road.You call the cops they never show believe me ive tried repeatedly.Never seen anything like this and i live in the burbs.Have had my house up for sale its been months since i even had a showing.No one is dumb enough to move to any where in Oregon now.
You should document some of these things especially 8 year old smoking a joint on the sidewalks to make it more believable to the general public otherwise it doesn't sound true.Next time you see such post it and show to authorities as your proof. Your comments sound a little over the top .
@Oli G I still say that you're being mean spirited Words are energies.Did your parents ever teach you that if you have nothing good to say that it's better to remain silent and show that you have some class about yourself?
Moved from SE Pdx to Oregon City in 2017…and at first missed that special Portland vibe. But now I’m so grateful I left. But we lived there for over 20 years and it was amazing most of that time. I don’t recognize it now.
Moved from pdx 2 years ago out to a small town in the gorge. Lower taxes, No woke crap, no crime, high quality of life, effective government, etc, etc. only question now is whether to dis-invest my portland rentals to the corporate buyers
Why raise the Art tax? From what I have seen, graffiti in downtown is looking like a Californian train depot graffiti. And that is free. And what did a statue(art) of an elk which was built for a man who was the founder of the humane society was political enough to merit distruction. When it was gone the true art was gone.
I never paid that tax. The bums living outside my building who drink and shoot up all day don't pay it. Why should I? Plus I don't use the art as a urinal so I really shouldn't have to pay.
I don't think I've ever paid that tax. As an artist who had to move out of Portland to make a living as an artist...yeah, they won't ever get that $35 bucks from me.
The grass isn't always greener elsewhere, but Portland has been in a slow decline for years. I believe change in government would go a long way to solve the city's problems. Homeless camps and trash fill the downtown streets, panhandlers and outright hard drug use in public makes me stay away from the city unless absolutely necessary.
Dude, its like multiple shades of green greener elsewhere. If you comparing it to other crap run cities like L.A., San Fran or Seattle, then yes they are just as shitty due to incompetent one-party city governance. But there's like a million other nice places to live besides those crap holes.
The grass isn't always greener but when you're the FIRST city in the USA to legalize the use of HARD substance then you should expect a tide of crime and homelessness to move in. People with problems adjusting simply settle for whatever but as Portland is no longer an upper class city but filled with crime, drug addicts and poverty then it's time to go elsewhere where it hasn't taken hold of yet.
What has your experience been like and where did you move from if you don't mind me asking? I recently visited and loved the vibe. I know the area's changed a lot. I'm wondering if it's a viable option to move to Hawthorne.
Same here. I will move out in few years. Just not a place that I would stay for a long period of time. It is old, expensive, unsafe, unclean and overcrowded. There are also serious racism issues based on my experience.
Lived in Portland for about 15 years, I loved it, I didnt care about how expensive it was ( or at least seemed expensive to me, Im form the midwest) But what was kool and fun about Pdx is not longer there. sounds crazy but after the show Portlandia aired it seemed likeevery annoying person in the world moved to PDx. Added with the super expanison of homeless pop, and now petty crime way up i doesnt really seem worth it anymore. Honestly the best possible thing for portland would be for a decent amount of people to move away.. Housing is super hard to get, and really high priced. The infastructure of the city is not made for how much the pop boomed. THe whole time I lived in Portland my friends and I would talk about how it seemed strange that the city councel and mayor and any governering body was basically not adapting with the population growth. I only found out why portland is so unefficient, with the city councel and mayor both not solving anything ( they are a parady of leadership at best) but crime will get way worse, if they dont figure out what to do with homeless problem business will move out. I still ive in the area, but it kinda sucks because i never want to go/park downtown to much liabilty for petty crime to happen. the best thing that could possibly happen is for them to get a real decision maker in charge and to get rid of the city councel and it would help if if about 50k people move out too to free up housing and to give the roads a break from traffic
@@Smorss2011 been to both seattle and san fran recently, yes they got problems also ... San fran might be worse, but seattle is not as bad,, might i ask you , have you been to portland and seen it yourself, or are you just chiliing looking at old videos and trying to troll? If you wouldve said LA then i would think you might have knowledge of this subject... Portland has by far the worst problem, becaus eonce they run out of money in Seattle, the bay and LA they go to portland because its the cheapest and has the most readily availbe supple of dr#gs and the most shelters and the law is set up for them to not be hasseled by the law.. also why , did you get on this thread , to compare who has the worst homeless problem?
Homelessness is one thing; blatantly allowing people to commit hard core crimes on your fellow man all day every day with no consequence is another. Taking a pandemic seriously is one thing, happily mandating what goes into someone else's arm is something else. Voting to make the city a better place is one thing, voting for pie-in-the-sky ideals when nobody has money for that is another. Taxing successful enterprises to spread the wealth to those less fortunate is one thing, taxing them and then sitting on the money and doing bupkis with it IS ANOTHER. Leaving.
There is an industry of providing social services which is funded by the federal government. It's a shift away from a capitalist model to a centrally managed socialist type opperation where wealth is created and controlled by the central bank and distributed based on idealogy rather than the old model of free markets providing for the needs of people.
Homelessness & rampant crime are some of the most misunderstood things in our progressive utopian paradise! You’ll soon get used to smell of urine in the streets. You’ll pretend all the trash is “art,” and you’ll come to love it just like we do. And as for all of the smashed windows & carjackings? Well those are just neighborly hellos. Pretend, denial, and make-believe are what we leaders of Portland do best!
And despite the broken promises they have no intention of keeping, they keep getting re-elected. They use these lofty utopian promises during Campaign Season until their re-election is secured and go right back to ignoring the voters. Yet voters _still_ vote for them. Meh, just blame Republicans. Never mind the fact that Republicans are a superminority in Oregon and essentially have no power; they'll get the blame and people will clap like seals and continue to vote for people who have no intention of keeping their promises _because they know they can't._ Why should they? It's basically one-party government at every level in Oregon and they've had a supermajority for years; they're accountable to _no one._ But voters keep voting them in (or back) because, well, "eeeeeeevil Republicans" -- who have zero power or influence in Salem or any big city in Oregon.
I literally just moved out of that drug ridden trash compactor of a “city” back to my home state of Tennessee where we don’t coddle or tolerate homelessness. Good F’n riddance! That place is an absolute lost cause, and we never be able to bounce back.
All these commenters who supposedly left Portland "x" number of years ago just so happen to watch this video and rememise on how happy they are to have moved. I'm a Portlander and I don't buy these comments for a second.
the liberal utopia in action. the local politicians will soon find out that cities dont run on the concept that criminals just need hugs to stop committing crimes. lived in pdx years ago and back then i can say it was one of my favorite cities in america, went back last year to visit a few friends and it was a bleak shadow of itself i actually cut my trip short because i couldn't believe how bad it had gotten. sad really to see such a great quirky small city full of real creatives (who didnt cheer on crime) be reduced to a woke gotham and still the local politicians pander to an ignorant base thinking that its the mainstream desire. it will take an implosion and massive budget shortfalls for these people to wake up and by then the damage will be even worse than it already is. if they decided to clean up now they could have it back to its former glory in 5-10 years but they have to start from scratch and put residents right to safety and security before criminals freedom to commit crimes and exploit the insanity of the current status of how the city is dealing with issues that arise. a little tough love is needed, its wild to see a city that has embraced enabling crime. wild times. theres still hope, the city has a great layout, easy to get around, perfectly sized for what it is, lots of great architecture, access to oceans 50 min away, great access to nature in general, great food (if they dont chase the local businesses away).
@@js27-a5t amazing ur able to read this entire thing and that’s the comment u leave. lol. keep telling urself “moderate” the problem is a bunch of morons who ascribe to this extreme two party system and live their lives on the extreme ends. there is nothing moderate about these cities. there are moderate people that exist that have to deal w the morons on these extreme sides. politicians are nothing but grifters who sway from one way to the next. their stances don’t matter, they shift like the wind. no point living our lives based on what some political figure thinks or doesn’t. giving hugs to criminals doesn’t stop crime. humans need some sort of discipline in order to stay in line, the kid gloves approach to the problem does not work. it’s asinine. i’m not saying we need to throw the book at everyone, but there are far better approaches than “u can steal whatever up to 900$ and we won’t show up to ur home being robbed unless ur raped or violently beaten” while a bunch of insane people cheer on the demise. end of day it’s not moderate, not common sense but it’s the reality people are living and being forced to live because people would rather argue over which words are okay to use while others are out actively committing crimes and creating anxiety amongst citizens who just want to actually live their lives in peace and raise families, instead they get to raise pets in apartments with the curtains drawn broke and afraid of someone breaking in and hoping the cops show up instead of asking how bad it is. seems like a pretty “moderate” world to me. maybe at some point people will stop watching edited videos w slick music that make viewers feel like every person out destroying cities is basically just bambi. end of day people want safe secure clean streets, it’s an issue none of these lame ass parties should be divided over. both of these moronic sides want to use the chaos for their own gain. “we need to throw em all in jail” on one side and another saying “they need hugs and free drugs” on the other. meanwhile ur average person can solve most of these issues using common sense, but instead clap like seals when their “party” says something that’s barely scratching the surface of common sense. a low bar built for a world of idiocracy while people cheer it on via tik tok just assuming it’s all being taken care of.
super high property taxes no benefit , i paid 6k last year my house is on se 99th and holgate , bad schools high crime , and too much progressive woke policies ,the city is filthy zombies every where ,its sickening to say the least
@@armaellis6358 It's just someone who thinks lefties are a monolith and doesn't realize that Oregon's gun laws are as "liberal" as any state they can imagine
The politics in Oregon don't bear close examination. Dismal leadership. Now they want to get rid of gas stoves! Egad! Where do these people come from? We need anyone but a democratic governor.
Welp -- you're not gonna get it. Oregon is one-party government, and once enough people and their money leave Oregon it will be left with no one but a line of people waiting for the handouts they were promised.
I lived in Gresham for about 5 years and I’ve seen the area getting worse and worse over the years. I’m pretty excited about moving back to East Vancouver next month
I'm in E. Van and the same issues are beginning to encroach upon this area too. Not content to keep their riff-raff in Portland, they're exporting it now. Don't plan on walking the trails here; they're solid trash and human excrement. There are pockets that haven't been hit yet and I'm not about to publicize where they are; I'm just praying they stay that was as long as possible before I either have to move out or Vancouver and Clark County get on top of this problem and actually do something constructive about it.
The same people that voted Portland into this mess....now moves away (instead of trying to fix it). And where are they moving? To places that have low crime, low taxes and low cost of living. And what do they do when they get there? Vote for the same progressive ideologies that made them move from Portland to begin with.
Actually I spend my time watching the news where most of my friends and family live. Just because I don't live there doesn't mean I don't care about what happens there.
Multnomah County is a region of spacetime where gravity is so strong that nothing - no particles or even electromagnetic radiation such as light - can escape from it.
It aint no slow decline. From 2016 on it has rapidly turned into hell. Ive written off oregon. Was my home base for many years. And there are places out there that haven't turned to total shit.
The broken people on the streets in big cities on the west coast are infact in large numbers from red states that have zero tolerance for these degenerative lifestyles that are plaguing these cities. Naturally seeking the path of least resistance they flock to these cities. Cities with more compassionate people on average. You know "Hippies"! So these overly compassionate cities are spreading their wings over all of these broken, addicted, often severely traumatized" starting at an early age" people. Giving them refuge! Shame on the states with these broken communities that produce these broken people and then drive them out for the "Bleeding Hearts" to try to make a difference! BOOM! Mic Drop!
Spreading people out will create problems in and of itself. I live in Houston which is infamous for its sprawl. Trust me, you don't want to have to drive 45+ minutes to get somewhere (which is also terrible for the environment and it's very expensive). Plus, when people start driving longer distances it will create more pollution. The air quality in Houston in terrible.
@@hashiramasenju6058 I mean, we need more big cities. Not that people move to the suburbs. Within the same cities. That will give people more options to move else’s where and create less traffic.
@@LaidBackFellow Why would it matter if it's one large city or a group of smaller ones? Houston is one of the largest cities (by land area) in the U.S. so the suburb point you made makes no sense. Sprawling cities create more traffic by making it so everyone HAS to drive instead of being able to walk or bike and making it so you have to drive longer distances. My school is literally 23 miles away from my house (UH) yet it's in the center of the center.
@@hashiramasenju6058 not really. If we have more major cities people won’t start moving to just one city and cause traffic, drive home prices up and rent if we had more cities with more job opportunity, people will not be so interested in living in L.A or Houston,San Francisco,New York ect. It will probably even get rid of the homeless problem since the price are so high due to high house demand in bigger cities which drives prices up.
@@LaidBackFellow creating new cities isn’t going to make people want to move there. Look at Detroit. Detroit’s population in 1950 was 1.9 million and now it’s 670,000. We don’t have a shortage of cities in America; we have a shortage of GOOD cities. That’s the reason everyone wants to be concentrated in a few cities. Btw, American cities are expensive due to the severe lack of housing where people actually want to live which means people have to compete over a few houses. That is caused by zoning laws limiting the amount of density that’s allowed.
It’s almost like massive cost of living increases and lack of access to healthcare have caused homelessness and crime, and those who can afford to do so are moving to greener pastures instead of contributing to the much harder work of making the city safe, equitable, and accessible for all of its inhabitants. It’s textbook definition suburban flight and we’ve seen cycles of this for decades.
It’s almost like incentivizing homelessness causes more homelessness. The cost of living argument is a smokescreen: these are drug addicts who love the lifestyle. Enough already.
I grew up and lived in North Portland over 25 years. Now the city is getting worst by the minute. Friends told me not to visit Portland now a day. It is not what it used to be. I am glad i moved out of there.
Portland never saw a levy that couldn’t pass or when scheduled to end couldn’t be extended. Hundreds of millions of dollars, and actually probably into the billions for Sun schools, parks, libraries, housing, homelessness, art, public schools, public safety, road maintenance and on and on and on. Then diverted money to pet projects and plead poverty for mandatory spending such as public safety and road maintenance. Is Portland any better off for it’s citizens after all of this spending? If you believe it is, then it’s a great place for you to live. For me and my family it wasn’t any longer and we left. I fear that it’s Detroit all over again. Look at Detroit’s population in the 1950’s compared to today.
Portland's city leaders are more concerned about the "vagrant's rights" than they are about the taxpayers' rights.
And THAT is why people are leaving.
@@markr8796 Toi many people here and a lot more needs to leave to even out the situation and the city will become a lot more affordable.
Absolutely
@@armaellis6358 Not necessarily.
@@greghauser742 Well may the best ideas win for the good of the sane.
What do u expect when the homeless, mentally ill, drug addicts run the streets of downtown and beyond? It's disgusting what the city has become.
Don't say that mean stuff about the Democratic voters,that's just mean !
This city has turned into a cesspool.
Ya baby soooo right
It will take Portland 20 years to recover, see ya!
Haha, no
I don’t think they will ever improve, they are just like the crackheads and fentanyl bozos that they allow to live there. Need to hit rock bottom. That might/probably never happen
Lived in SE PDX for 5 yrs. Have two small kids. Sold and left in Jan because of lowering quality of schools and increasing property crime, trash, and violence. Moved to the suburbs far away. Has been amazing. Rooting for PDX but couldn't risk my family's education and health in the hopes it gets better in the next few years.
Thank you for having common sense. Too many Portlanders don't evidently.
@@greghauser742 How can it may be better for them as a solution?.
@@jobella2656 Who?
@@greghauser742 The ones you mentioned.
. You bought some time, at best. They are coming for the suburbs next
Born and raised over 50 years can’t wait to finish out my work years and get far far away. I’m so sad of what has become of a beautiful small city where kids could actually ride bikes on the 205 bike path .
Then you aren't worthy of Portland, nor of the state of Oregon, because you're not willing to vote in ways that will effectively deal with the homelessness and the crime, in civilized, humane, and adult-level terms. PLEASE GO AWAY AS SOON AS YOU ARE ABLE. Go learn your lesson the hard way when you have to fill out a FEMA form.
@@justrosy5 What a weird comment
Where are you planning on moving to? Where is this utopia free of crime and homelessness? Please enlighten us.
@@user-uy3eq5hg1s You could move to pretty much anywhere else in Oregon and be a lot better off.
@@greghauser742 100% true Greg! I moved out and wished I did it sooner. Little over 1 year now for me.
This is NOT happening everywhere. I moved out a month ago, and its a 1000 times better. Portland has rotted and it won’t get better anytime soon.
Yet now you spend your time posting on local news videos for a city you don’t live; sweet!.
@@duvine3882 People need to know it’s better outside Portland. And that this Is NOT happening everywhere.
And yeah, I got more time since no stress dealing with Portland now. So I got time to talk trash about the city and will continue to until it’s cleaned up, or 20 years later. Whatever comes first.
@@duvine3882 well Portland is known NOW, all over the World as a S hole.
@@Ghanja007 Is happening everywhere there is a big city or a dead town like those filled with meth on the coast. If I were you I wouldn't announce that you trash talk as that negates your post.
@@duvine3882 How does that "negate" their post? You make no sense.
I am a taxpayer with two businesses. I enjoy biking and getting outdoors. I can no longer bike because people live on the bike paths legally apparently! There is no police coverage except for murder which would be a little too late then but… It takes 5 to 9 minutes to get through the 911. People might be leaving because they’re paying taxes and getting no services for them! My tax dollars are paying for the bike paths people sleep on and the sidewalks they build houses on! People leave because the homeless and the criminals and the homeless criminals have more rights than we do as taxpayers! Let’s see what it’s like when the high-paying taxpayers leave… Portland needs to address this. Yes I too am looking to leave
Bullseye!
It IS BETTER OUT of Oregon!!!! I left last year to Tennessee!!! No regrets!!!
Tn is growing fast (depending on where)
People like Republican States after age 30, and that’s with an higher IQ, 40 if average. 50 if a imbecile.
Literally just did the exact same. TN is my home state and just moved back. 1,000,000x better than where I was in SE Portland.
@@sadboi7537 I lived in NE Portland 🤦♀️. I love Tennessee!!! 😊
make sure you vote the same way, I want to see BLM blocking every street in Tennessee too! Let's ruin all the other cities too
So the wealthier people, who pay most of the actual taxes that run things, are leaving, and younger people who make a lot less money are replacing them. I wonder what will happen.
They will get what they have been screaming for. Lol!
I have my popcorn
Why would you stay if you could upgrade your quality of life by moving?
It normal. people retire and leave the city, young people come in
You know as the area deteriorates and the canvas changes I wonder just how much those shiny glistening towers in the background have to do with it.
Having left Portland in the last couple years, it's definitely better somewhere else. I haven't had any loss to vandalism or theft in the last 3yrs, that's probably better than most Portlanders can say.
If you still in Oregon never vote for a democrat ever again. That’s the only thing that’s going to change Oregon in the future and Portland right now.
@@dalepxp8963 you're a dingus. I was making a factual statement and you're bringing politics into it, go proselytize elsewhere.
@@pilfered1685 What the hell do you think caused Portland to become the way it is?
@@greghauser742 tough to say, it's been going on for decades though.
@@pilfered1685 It's definitely not tough to say. But it is safe to say they'll keep voting the same and it will only get worse.
Do you blame them?? Our current leadership has failed us and all they seem to be good at is making excuses...
Actually I think they are terrible at making excuses
Portland is the new Detroit.
Detroit never had Intel or Techtronic..;. Nike ?
If you ignore the fact that the crime rate in PDX is at a decade-high and is still like 1/3 of Detroit's crime rate, and that PDX has grown by 25% this century whereas Detroit's population has dropped by 1/3, and, uh....
No. That comparison is lazy, poor, and makes no sense whatsoever
@@MysticBlueAcid Truth!.
@@aaronmccurrie1006 Yep; almost like from a foreign country bot or sock puppet account.
I wish houses were as cheap here in Portland as Detroit. That’s why people are leaving. Super high rent and taxes with none of the safety.
The "younger" moving in may not mind for the first few months or maybe a year, but the mindset changes after the reality sets in that this is Portland now. When I moved here the city was great. I loved it. Yes there were challenges, but not close to what there is now. I have had so many friends leave the city due to the cost of living, crime, political views, homelessness, and how dirty the city has become. I want to love the city and am trying to serve my community in Multnomah, but the past couple years, it's been tough and keeps getting tougher. I hope things brighten and the joys of what I saw just 4 years ago reemerge and remind us why Portland is a great city. Until then I'm just going to be patient and will cast my vote this coming election season!
That was what like 10 years ago when it was the wave
These are problems every city faces and the new up and coming cities will face as well. When you have millions of People living in a small area, you will get more trash, more crime, higher prices etc. When that happens, people with families decide to move out to the suburbs. new suburbs are beautiful and really lovely, but they are not economical sustainable (unless, you pay more than 50% in taxes and people don't want to pay higher taxes) The only economical sustainable places are big cities (assuming no corruption happens), less roads to fix, less pipes to fix, less taxes because there are more people paying.
New Towns don't experience high taxes because the federal government subsidies them and because they are new, things won't start breaking until after 30 years.
@@colombiantom I've always lived in big cities. I like an element of messiness in a city. This is completely different. Sanctimonious liberals, hateful conservatives, the sackler family, police unions, and general intellectual laziness of Americans made Portland a disaster area.
@@rerun3283 I thought you were describing NYC (I still live here). Big city problems, that will not be fixed.
Well, bye 😂
I have lived in Portland since 2009. I get things change but I don't have enough money to constantly change my car windows or enough patience to shoo homeless and criminals out of my house gently at any hour. Wondering if my daughter and I are going to see needles in the park, a man whipping it out / wacking it or asking if we "want some," homeless people voiding on top of concrete/ in the park. 99% of the people I grew up with in Portland and loved around have moved away.
Car racing, mad max like vehicles and driver's, shootings and numbing ourselves when we see people fighting/ shooting up on the side of the street...
Just walk by and ignore it.
I keep wishing I could love it again but Portland isn't safe enough for me to raise my child. I don't want my kids to normalize this behavior.
thing is, this isn't just a Portland or a "Blue State" problem.
You can see the same thing in Kansas City Mo.
Or Little Rock Arkansas.
Or Nashville Tennessee.
Or Lexington Kentucky.
Our problems are not red or blue.
They are Rich and Poor.
As long as you don’t drive you don’t have to worry about car windows. Portland has decent public transportation and most of it is really walkable. And when you “want some” you can usually find some.
It's anarchy here. The good thing is you can get away with a lot. The bad thing is other people can get away with a lot.
@danieldaniels7571 The transportation system here is flooded with drug addicts And it's unsafe, And filthy. Plus some people need a car to get to places the transportation system doesn't go.
@@asuhdude6668 I'm a truck driver fuckface. It's more than true. Go see for your fucking self
And while your at it? Kiss my ass you right wing POS..
Not one mention of the real reason people don’t want to be there
It’s the rampant homelessness that’s allowed that is what’s making people leave who wants to raise their kids in the middle of that? Let alone have a business and expect to attract people ! It is neglect lying in tents on the street it’s not being nice build them a place they have to go to not the streets
Believe me it’s not a home that they need. Take it from California cities who tried this they end up trashing the hotels. The real issue is rampant drug abuse which also leads to mental health issues. It’s come to that point that the street people obviously can’t take care of themselves. Mandatory rehabilitation programs and mental health programs is the only way. Otherwise it’s only going to get worse.
Yes, Oregonians are so liberal and progressive--until it comes to actually helping people.
There are more open shelter beds than people on the street. The people choosing to live on the street are doing so because they don't want to give up taking drugs (one of the requirements). It is the homeless people's fault, and the weak city council that won't empower police to enforce the rules already on the books. Tough Love is needed.
USA is in a recession heading for a depression.
There is rampant homelessness everywhere. Pretending this is a problem unique to Portland is naive.
@@co7314 Have you ever bothered staying at a shelter?
Imagine having a bunch of your belongings, going to a shelter, having to throw away a ton of your belongings, sleep in a bad for ONE night, get thrown out at 6 am, and then not get a bed the next night.
Ignorant people like you need to shut the fuck up
Spent 36 years in Portland and just moved away and it was the best decision by far. Nothing will change without better access to rehab. Portland has a drug problem, crime and homelessness is the byproduct.
Exactly. What you said.
Measure 110 threw gasoline onto the fire. It attracted an underclass of drug addicts from all over the country who take advantage of this to live and die from their destructive habits without any consequences. And the clueless politicians here wonder why no one is taking advantage of the drug treatment programs that were part of the Measure 110 package.
Forced rehab
@@cspdx11 called intervention and the only way through is to force people to get off drugs. Criminals are integrated into the homeless and are not prosecuted for any crimes. Until those to things happen - nothing else matters
Drug problems are literally everywhere.
It isn't just the residents who are fleeing from Portland.
I live in the Tacoma area and came down to Portland regularly between 2004 and 2019. By the summer of '19, what had only recently been a beautiful, charming city had degenerated into the Zombie Apocalypse. Half the people on the streets seemed to be dazed and crazed homeless drug addicts and mental patients. It was actually worse than Seattle.
And that was just before Ted Wheeler decided to allow ANTIFA to burn and trash it in 2020.
I've heard that something like 40% of businesses have left downtown in the last few years. Lotsa luck coming back from that. I grew up in the Northeast and remember what happened to its cities after the riots in the 60's. They never came back.
Thank you, not, to all the progressives who wanted to "keep Portland weird."
You only managed to turn it into Detroit with evergreens.
It was purposeful and deliberate, too. Yep, it was all fun & games when Trump was in office, a chance to demonstrate their righteous anger by burning down businesses, vandalizing property, and beating up innocent people because, well, ACAB and BLM and evil capitalists & shit. Now the politicians responsible for allowing this to happen are trying to hang on to what's left of their credibility and then ditch town and set up shop elsewhere, leaving the rest of the residents to pick up the pieces. Short of suspending Habeus and calling in the Nat'l Guard there's no solution to the dystopian mosh pit these people have created, because those of us who weren't responsible for the carnage aren't _about_ to pay the price it's ultimately going to cost to get Portland back to what it once was -- if that's even possible.
Portland could be one of America's greatest cities if it weren't for the people.
Yes the woke dummies that think they are smart. Shame on the Mess.
Which people?
This is what thinking with your heart vs thinking with your head gets you. "We should take pitty on the homeless" vs " lock up that asshole who just broke into my car"
Big time. The people in Oregon always elect democrats too. So Stupid.
You assume this is a case of imcompetence. Bless your heart.
@@bluechex7881 A lot of it is.
@@MrGenitalWarts9 It's totally not political. It's just incompetence, for sure.
@@bluechex7881 Whatever makes you feel better. I'll stick to reality.
In older cities this has already happened multiple times. Suburban flight, will be followed by plummeting property values in the city, and then suburban investors come back into the city in 15-20 years, and the suburbanites move back to the city, while the city dwellers move out into the suburbs living in the now 30-40 year old housing areas. Then another 15-20 years passes and we do it all over again. People with money, push people without money, somewhere else.
You are familiar with how the price discovery process is part of how the market works? Same thing with this. Good people are going to leave, and Portland is going to become an even worse hell hole, before the tide changes and it begins to get better again.
“Older cities” in a US context is nonsensical. Suburban flight is not a natural phenomenon for the majority of world cities. What we have is a failure of systems in an corrupt 3rd world country that regulates incremental city growth to death. By all standards of health, education, and crime, the US is not a modern state.
It's going to make it too expensive for people to live in the suburbs without having a city job. Which is going to push the suburban working class poor out into rural communities or into public housing in the cities. Which means that businesses in retail and fast food will either have to close shop or have to raise their wages. Rent cost will skyrocket which it already has. The only good thing is that it might put pressure on accessory dwellings.
a never ending dance of racist, capitalistic suffering lol
Random thoughts from Australia. Fewer people moving to Portland because all the sidewalks are over crowded with homeless people and no space available. Thanks I am here all week!! Cheers.
The only surprising thing is that it has taken this long for people to get up and skidaddle. Especially after 2020.
I'm sure there have been many people that didn't have the resources to do that right away, like work obligations just as one example.
Gotta get our ducks in a row. This will only accelerate.
When you remove law enforcement from your cities, the law abiding public is sure to follow. Ted Wheeler is very pleased with his policies.
@@michaelhardman7338 That did not happen, but nice try.
It won't matter until they don't have enough revenue to pay their salaries.
The city can make a comeback if we VOTE OUT THE CITY LEADERS THAT MADE THE PROBLEM.
I HEARD THAT
They won't, they'll vote in the same losers.
Is Ted Wheeler still there and anyone else on the City Council? Until they're gone don't expect anything to be different. Same crap just a different day.
Portland is a Democrat Neo-progressive cesspool, you'll never vote out the liberal trash.
@@cultusdeus Ted Wheeler, Joann Hardesty and the other do nothings are still on the City Council unfortunately.
I'm one of the two thousand that moved out......best thing I ever did! Took my business with me , settled in a smaller town with better politics and am doing well. I'll work in Portland , but I will never live there again.
Good, we dont want you here.
Fucking bye. Don't come back. Ideally don't work here either
You sound like you’re fun at parties lol
@@JC-qz8ox I am. No freaks allowed at the parties out here either. You can keep them.
@@jeffro5032 lol your business is probably trash
I can’t blame them. Those residents have had to endure a lot of bs. So it’s only wise to find a different spot to live more comfortably.
The local government has destroyed the city along with the DA who won’t hold people accountable. Moving out of outer SE Portland was the best choice for my family.
The Mayor and his accomplices in the city council, the do nothing woke AF DA along with Governor Kate Brown should be criminally investigated for the negligence and apathy they have for people in this city.
You voted for the government ,so don't complain.
Talking to a genZ from NYC and asked what brought him to Portland, the trees, mountains, ocean, desert, rivers, hiking, camping, hunting, fishing, arts, music? Nope, he came for the social street scene and food trucks. Keep Portland weird?
I hear nothing but bad things about Portland too bad, 20 yr ago there was a reason to move there not now
Less people moving in is a good thing. Affordable solution 👌.
Less people moving makes it easier for the next pandemic; as it better in it than other cities in other states.
@@armaellis6358 ...yeah idiot thats not how it works...
Born Oregonians are moving to places like small idaho towns the state is overrun with people coming as far as new york living in their cars or streets to do crack, heroin and number 1 meth with no repercussions.You see them doing hard drugs in public even the burbs everywhere in the streets and alleyways.But most disturbing i saw 8 year olds walking to school smoking joints on the road.You call the cops they never show believe me ive tried repeatedly.Never seen anything like this and i live in the burbs.Have had my house up for sale its been months since i even had a showing.No one is dumb enough to move to any where in Oregon now.
You should document some of these things especially 8 year old smoking a joint on the sidewalks to make it more believable to the general public otherwise it doesn't sound true.Next time you see such post it and show to authorities as your proof. Your comments sound a little over the top .
@Oli G I do my best to avoid the people and areas that you encounter. God Bless you 🙏.
@Oli G Why the mean spirit? Are you okay?
@Oli G I still say that you're being mean spirited Words are energies.Did your parents ever teach you that if you have nothing good to say that it's better to remain silent and show that you have some class about yourself?
@@armaellis6358 OMG. You don't live in reality!
Moved from SE Pdx to Oregon City in 2017…and at first missed that special Portland vibe. But now I’m so grateful I left. But we lived there for over 20 years and it was amazing most of that time. I don’t recognize it now.
Moved from pdx 2 years ago out to a small town in the gorge. Lower taxes, No woke crap, no crime, high quality of life, effective government, etc, etc. only question now is whether to dis-invest my portland rentals to the corporate buyers
Nice; now here commenting on local news videos for a city you no longer live in.
@@duvine3882 People in other countries comment on KGW videos. What's your point
If you have money you can always leave the crap behind
Raise the arts tax so we can have more crappy art to look at.
Why raise the Art tax? From what I have seen, graffiti in downtown is looking like a Californian train depot graffiti. And that is free. And what did a statue(art) of an elk which was built for a man who was the founder of the humane society was political enough to merit distruction. When it was gone the true art was gone.
The “Arts Tax” was a completely absurd tax, voted in by wealthy liberal constituents during better times. Now they’re moving away. Imagine that…
I never paid that tax. The bums living outside my building who drink and shoot up all day don't pay it. Why should I? Plus I don't use the art as a urinal so I really shouldn't have to pay.
They need a bronze of a homeless guy with his pants down taking a dump. Wearing a biden harris t-shirt.
I don't think I've ever paid that tax. As an artist who had to move out of Portland to make a living as an artist...yeah, they won't ever get that $35 bucks from me.
The grass isn't always greener elsewhere, but Portland has been in a slow decline for years. I believe change in government would go a long way to solve the city's problems. Homeless camps and trash fill the downtown streets, panhandlers and outright hard drug use in public makes me stay away from the city unless absolutely necessary.
Dude, its like multiple shades of green greener elsewhere. If you comparing it to other crap run cities like L.A., San Fran or Seattle, then yes they are just as shitty due to incompetent one-party city governance. But there's like a million other nice places to live besides those crap holes.
The grass isn't always greener but when you're the FIRST city in the USA to legalize the use of HARD substance then you should expect a tide of crime and homelessness to move in. People with problems adjusting simply settle for whatever but as Portland is no longer an upper class city but filled with crime, drug addicts and poverty then it's time to go elsewhere where it hasn't taken hold of yet.
No one is going to California
people are going back
@@sethboring8340 California LOST a congressional seat, for the first time since it became a State.
Numbers don't lie.
Probably the Californian transplants are moving back.
Yeah, who doesn't mind the trash, crime, homeless, used needles, feces on the sidewalk, piss in elevators, tents everywhere? Sounds so inviting
One guarantee for sure: the grass IS greener anywhere, but PDX.
I moved here 6 months ago... for sure not what I imagined.
What has your experience been like and where did you move from if you don't mind me asking? I recently visited and loved the vibe. I know the area's changed a lot. I'm wondering if it's a viable option to move to Hawthorne.
@@chai_lattes A tourist's perspective is going to be a lot different from someone who has lived there for a while...
Same here. I will move out in few years. Just not a place that I would stay for a long period of time. It is old, expensive, unsafe, unclean and overcrowded. There are also serious racism issues based on my experience.
Criminals and campers are moving in to replace the people moving out.
Shilacked side walks every where where people urinate on the side walks repeatedly definitely NOT the town I grew up in
Portland is in rough shape from horrible leadership
If you think that, spend a few days in any city on the East Coast, especially in the South. Ugh.
@@Smorss2011 I grew up in Minneapolis. I don’t need to go to the east to see a city In decay
Lived in Portland for about 15 years, I loved it, I didnt care about how expensive it was ( or at least seemed expensive to me, Im form the midwest) But what was kool and fun about Pdx is not longer there. sounds crazy but after the show Portlandia aired it seemed likeevery annoying person in the world moved to PDx. Added with the super expanison of homeless pop, and now petty crime way up i doesnt really seem worth it anymore. Honestly the best possible thing for portland would be for a decent amount of people to move away.. Housing is super hard to get, and really high priced. The infastructure of the city is not made for how much the pop boomed. THe whole time I lived in Portland my friends and I would talk about how it seemed strange that the city councel and mayor and any governering body was basically not adapting with the population growth. I only found out why portland is so unefficient, with the city councel and mayor both not solving anything ( they are a parady of leadership at best) but crime will get way worse, if they dont figure out what to do with homeless problem business will move out. I still ive in the area, but it kinda sucks because i never want to go/park downtown to much liabilty for petty crime to happen. the best thing that could possibly happen is for them to get a real decision maker in charge and to get rid of the city councel and it would help if if about 50k people move out too to free up housing and to give the roads a break from traffic
Portlandia RUINED Portland 🥀
Haha, go live in Seattle or the Bay Area, then tell me how bad it is.
@@mariclareable Please. Nobody moved to Portland because of that little-watched TV show.
@@Smorss2011 Yea they did
@@Smorss2011 been to both seattle and san fran recently, yes they got problems also ... San fran might be worse, but seattle is not as bad,, might i ask you , have you been to portland and seen it yourself, or are you just chiliing looking at old videos and trying to troll? If you wouldve said LA then i would think you might have knowledge of this subject... Portland has by far the worst problem, becaus eonce they run out of money in Seattle, the bay and LA they go to portland because its the cheapest and has the most readily availbe supple of dr#gs and the most shelters and the law is set up for them to not be hasseled by the law.. also why , did you get on this thread , to compare who has the worst homeless problem?
Please fellow Portlanders vote for Drazan, lets make crime illegal again...time to push the re-set button
Yes.
Leadership.
I’m leaving this month and couldn’t be happier!
Same!!
Homelessness is one thing; blatantly allowing people to commit hard core crimes on your fellow man all day every day with no consequence is another. Taking a pandemic seriously is one thing, happily mandating what goes into someone else's arm is something else. Voting to make the city a better place is one thing, voting for pie-in-the-sky ideals when nobody has money for that is another. Taxing successful enterprises to spread the wealth to those less fortunate is one thing, taxing them and then sitting on the money and doing bupkis with it IS ANOTHER. Leaving.
Almost like liberal policies are a disaster for society. Weird.
Waaaaaaaaah. Poor baby has to think of other people he might kill because he doesn't like shots!
Working tax payers move out homeless move in ... good job Portland
But these homeless are all innocent victims just coming here to find jobs and they just need a chance. Lol, just kidding.
People like you support people sending homeless(now migrant) from other states to Portland?
There is an industry of providing social services which is funded by the federal government. It's a shift away from a capitalist model to a centrally managed socialist type opperation where wealth is created and controlled by the central bank and distributed based on idealogy rather than the old model of free markets providing for the needs of people.
@@MysticBlueAcid people like you support uncontrolled illegal migration into the states and say that's the border towns problem?
@@MysticBlueAcid by the way...states are not sending homeless people to Portland... Portland's policies are inviting homeless people
I moved across the bridge to Salmon Creek WA area. Very safe and rural…
Same here. I moved up to LongView washington. Loving it here. Do not miss Portland one bit. Washington is amazing.
I’ve always wanted to retire there but because of the homeless problem and crime I am looking elsewhere
Homelessness & rampant crime are some of the most misunderstood things in our progressive utopian paradise! You’ll soon get used to smell of urine in the streets. You’ll pretend all the trash is “art,” and you’ll come to love it just like we do. And as for all of the smashed windows & carjackings? Well those are just neighborly hellos. Pretend, denial, and make-believe are what we leaders of Portland do best!
Let us all know where in the USA there is not homelessness.
People want the utopia democrats promise, not the nightmares they create
And despite the broken promises they have no intention of keeping, they keep getting re-elected. They use these lofty utopian promises during Campaign Season until their re-election is secured and go right back to ignoring the voters. Yet voters _still_ vote for them. Meh, just blame Republicans. Never mind the fact that Republicans are a superminority in Oregon and essentially have no power; they'll get the blame and people will clap like seals and continue to vote for people who have no intention of keeping their promises _because they know they can't._ Why should they? It's basically one-party government at every level in Oregon and they've had a supermajority for years; they're accountable to _no one._ But voters keep voting them in (or back) because, well, "eeeeeeevil Republicans" -- who have zero power or influence in Salem or any big city in Oregon.
This is what you Portlanders wanted and keep wanting by electing the same politicians from the same political party.
Been in the area for 10 years and this December will be the end. Leaving and will never come back.
Almost like having horrible politics make people want to leave
I watch the news every morning w my 9 yr old girl. One thing she has learned from watching the news is that she never wants to go to Portland.
terrible habit for both of you. go outside and enjoy the world
@@MaxFung dumbest reply ever. 🙄 these are mornings we get ready for school. We don't sit on the couch and watch the news all day. Duh.
Portland and Philadelphia have the most Zombies
Sf and Oakland want to have a word with u
I literally just moved out of that drug ridden trash compactor of a “city” back to my home state of Tennessee where we don’t coddle or tolerate homelessness. Good F’n riddance! That place is an absolute lost cause, and we never be able to bounce back.
They coddle them in Nashville, but libs run Davidson Co. Nashville ain't TN, for now, but it will be as more libs move here.
Drugs, crime, violent offenses, homelessness, expensive??? What's not to love
Glad all you people who moved here in the 2010s when it was the trendy thing to do are finally leaving! So glad people are leaving
Once high income people start leaving, its all downhill from there. Don't forget, Detroit was a nice city too, in it's heyday.
All these commenters who supposedly left Portland "x" number of years ago just so happen to watch this video and rememise on how happy they are to have moved. I'm a Portlander and I don't buy these comments for a second.
the liberal utopia in action. the local politicians will soon find out that cities dont run on the concept that criminals just need hugs to stop committing crimes. lived in pdx years ago and back then i can say it was one of my favorite cities in america, went back last year to visit a few friends and it was a bleak shadow of itself i actually cut my trip short because i couldn't believe how bad it had gotten. sad really to see such a great quirky small city full of real creatives (who didnt cheer on crime) be reduced to a woke gotham and still the local politicians pander to an ignorant base thinking that its the mainstream desire.
it will take an implosion and massive budget shortfalls for these people to wake up and by then the damage will be even worse than it already is. if they decided to clean up now they could have it back to its former glory in 5-10 years but they have to start from scratch and put residents right to safety and security before criminals freedom to commit crimes and exploit the insanity of the current status of how the city is dealing with issues that arise. a little tough love is needed, its wild to see a city that has embraced enabling crime. wild times. theres still hope, the city has a great layout, easy to get around, perfectly sized for what it is, lots of great architecture, access to oceans 50 min away, great access to nature in general, great food (if they dont chase the local businesses away).
The mayor of Portland is a former Republican turned moderate Democrat
@@js27-a5t amazing ur able to read this entire thing and that’s the comment u leave. lol. keep telling urself “moderate” the problem is a bunch of morons who ascribe to this extreme two party system and live their lives on the extreme ends. there is nothing moderate about these cities. there are moderate people that exist that have to deal w the morons on these extreme sides. politicians are nothing but grifters who sway from one way to the next. their stances don’t matter, they shift like the wind. no point living our lives based on what some political figure thinks or doesn’t. giving hugs to criminals doesn’t stop crime. humans need some sort of discipline in order to stay in line, the kid gloves approach to the problem does not work. it’s asinine. i’m not saying we need to throw the book at everyone, but there are far better approaches than “u can steal whatever up to 900$ and we won’t show up to ur home being robbed unless ur raped or violently beaten” while a bunch of insane people cheer on the demise. end of day it’s not moderate, not common sense but it’s the reality people are living and being forced to live because people would rather argue over which words are okay to use while others are out actively committing crimes and creating anxiety amongst citizens who just want to actually live their lives in peace and raise families, instead they get to raise pets in apartments with the curtains drawn broke and afraid of someone breaking in and hoping the cops show up instead of asking how bad it is. seems like a pretty “moderate” world to me. maybe at some point people will
stop watching edited videos w slick
music that make viewers feel like every person out destroying cities is basically just bambi. end of day people want safe secure clean streets, it’s an issue none of these lame ass parties should be divided over. both of these moronic sides want to use the chaos for their own gain. “we need to throw em all in jail” on one side and another saying “they need hugs and free drugs” on the other. meanwhile ur average person can solve most of these issues using common sense, but instead clap like seals when their “party” says something that’s barely scratching the surface of common sense. a low bar built for a world of idiocracy while people cheer it on via tik tok just assuming it’s all being taken care of.
Liberals did not dump the mentally ill population onto the streets. Thank conservatives for that brain fart.
super high property taxes no benefit , i paid 6k last year my house is on se 99th and holgate , bad schools high crime , and too much progressive woke policies ,the city is filthy zombies every where ,its sickening to say the least
Well well well if it isn’t the consequences of your own actions. If you can leave, I recommend you do it. Florida welcomes you with open arms.
You show you who "the real self " you own ... You lived and now talking down to former places lived at. Your a person of "no foundation" or "home".
Hurricane 🌀 and fingers crossed
@@armaellis6358 way better than 🔫 and not being able to defend yourself imho.
@@TroyRubert Why can't you defend yourself ? What are you talking about?
@@armaellis6358 It's just someone who thinks lefties are a monolith and doesn't realize that Oregon's gun laws are as "liberal" as any state they can imagine
Maybe don't have $1500/month property taxes
It's all in her EYES😕 Her livelihood depends on Portland growing. It all over her face and how she express her thoughts.
Remember to vote Blue if you want things like crime, homelessness, drugs and illegal immigration!!!
Immigrants aren't the problem. All the homeless meth heads I've seen are full-bred Americans.
The politics in Oregon don't bear close examination. Dismal leadership. Now they want to get rid of gas stoves! Egad! Where do these people come from? We need anyone but a democratic governor.
Welp -- you're not gonna get it. Oregon is one-party government, and once enough people and their money leave Oregon it will be left with no one but a line of people waiting for the handouts they were promised.
Rising crimes and homelessness don’t help.
I lived in Gresham for about 5 years and I’ve seen the area getting worse and worse over the years. I’m pretty excited about moving back to East Vancouver next month
don’t get too excited
I'm in E. Van and the same issues are beginning to encroach upon this area too. Not content to keep their riff-raff in Portland, they're exporting it now. Don't plan on walking the trails here; they're solid trash and human excrement. There are pockets that haven't been hit yet and I'm not about to publicize where they are; I'm just praying they stay that was as long as possible before I either have to move out or Vancouver and Clark County get on top of this problem and actually do something constructive about it.
I just got my tax notice and it doubled. I’m not happy. Taxes doubled🤬
Maybe...clean up the city and stop allowing only luxury apartments and mansions to be built??
Not surprised
The same people that voted Portland into this mess....now moves away (instead of trying to fix it). And where are they moving? To places that have low crime, low taxes and low cost of living. And what do they do when they get there? Vote for the same progressive ideologies that made them move from Portland to begin with.
A parasite always needs a new host when their current host has been destroyed.
And there are people living there still in denial. As long as they keep their blinders on, the only change they'll get is for the worse.
Blinders
@@Smorss2011 Thanks. I fixed it.
Blaming Portlands problems on the pandemic is hilarious, it was horrible long before...
I moved to an entirely different state! Things an Oregon got too bad for this native! I moved to Montana! And sadly I won't ever move home again!
And now you spend your time commenting on local news videos for a city you don’t live. Cool!
@@darkdaysahead01 you seem fun.
Actually I spend my time watching the news where most of my friends and family live. Just because I don't live there doesn't mean I don't care about what happens there.
@@duvine3882 Quit posting the same thing on different accounts.
@@duvine3882 You're not good at deflecting.
Left Portland for Florida.
Went from Hell to Heaven and never looked back! You can have my part of that asphalt sewer.
Huh? Florida has more crime & homelessness than Oregon.
A nice city turned into a garbage dump but they won't tell you that on this report
Multnomah County is a region of spacetime where gravity is so strong that nothing - no particles or even electromagnetic radiation such as light - can escape from it.
Yes! In other words, Multnomah county, see it even sounds like a disease, has turned into a black hole!
@@carlerickson74 Tax farm from hell.. with a parasite state hellbent on enslaving and defrauding it's people.. this place makes me sick..
@@carlerickson74 I tried hard to avoid using the word _____ and being labeled as a ______.
Happening in Seattle too.
not even close -- Seattle is not Portland never has been. Portland is dump, Seattle is making an effort
🤔 I can't see any reason people wouldn't want to live here
It aint no slow decline. From 2016 on it has rapidly turned into hell. Ive written off oregon. Was my home base for many years. And there are places out there that haven't turned to total shit.
I say around 2010 things were heading south
And they're all east of the Cascades.
Two weeks ago they were reporting that alot of people were returning to Portland 🤔
Yep, balanced news in reporting is all about both sides but in different segments for audiences.
That’s ok they will be leaving soon too the Zombies are coming.
@@dalepxp8963 I thought they were already there 🙄
@@dalepxp8963 TWD?.
@@dalepxp8963 ABORTION IS ILLEGAL SO IN 50YRS.more people more crimes everywhere
The broken people on the streets in big cities on the west coast are infact in large numbers from red states that have zero tolerance for these degenerative lifestyles that are plaguing these cities. Naturally seeking the path of least resistance they flock to these cities. Cities with more compassionate people on average. You know "Hippies"! So these overly compassionate cities are spreading their wings over all of these broken, addicted, often severely traumatized" starting at an early age" people. Giving them refuge! Shame on the states with these broken communities that produce these broken people and then drive them out for the "Bleeding Hearts" to try to make a difference! BOOM! Mic Drop!
You sound nice.
The crime and the homeless it won't be long you won't be able to tell it from Detroit.
Sad to see such a steep decline in a beautiful city.
It's all the Democrats
Love the state love Portland ⚘
👆please clean up your messes. Love from southern Oregon
Love the state, fuck Portland.
It’s about time people start spreading around. Everyone is so concentrated in one area that it drives prices up and pollute the area.
Spreading people out will create problems in and of itself. I live in Houston which is infamous for its sprawl. Trust me, you don't want to have to drive 45+ minutes to get somewhere (which is also terrible for the environment and it's very expensive). Plus, when people start driving longer distances it will create more pollution. The air quality in Houston in terrible.
@@hashiramasenju6058 I mean, we need more big cities. Not that people move to the suburbs. Within the same cities. That will give people more options to move else’s where and create less traffic.
@@LaidBackFellow Why would it matter if it's one large city or a group of smaller ones? Houston is one of the largest cities (by land area) in the U.S. so the suburb point you made makes no sense. Sprawling cities create more traffic by making it so everyone HAS to drive instead of being able to walk or bike and making it so you have to drive longer distances. My school is literally 23 miles away from my house (UH) yet it's in the center of the center.
@@hashiramasenju6058 not really. If we have more major cities people won’t start moving to just one city and cause traffic, drive home prices up and rent if we had more cities with more job opportunity, people will not be so interested in living in L.A or Houston,San Francisco,New York ect. It will probably even get rid of the homeless problem since the price are so high due to high house demand in bigger cities which drives prices up.
@@LaidBackFellow creating new cities isn’t going to make people want to move there. Look at Detroit. Detroit’s population in 1950 was 1.9 million and now it’s 670,000. We don’t have a shortage of cities in America; we have a shortage of GOOD cities. That’s the reason everyone wants to be concentrated in a few cities. Btw, American cities are expensive due to the severe lack of housing where people actually want to live which means people have to compete over a few houses. That is caused by zoning laws limiting the amount of density that’s allowed.
its never coming back
It’s almost like massive cost of living increases and lack of access to healthcare have caused homelessness and crime, and those who can afford to do so are moving to greener pastures instead of contributing to the much harder work of making the city safe, equitable, and accessible for all of its inhabitants. It’s textbook definition suburban flight and we’ve seen cycles of this for decades.
It’s almost like incentivizing homelessness causes more homelessness. The cost of living argument is a smokescreen: these are drug addicts who love the lifestyle. Enough already.
I have lived all over...there are no greener pastures.
Count me in. I am OUTTA here, ASAP.
Bye
I grew up and lived in North Portland over 25 years. Now the city is getting worst by the minute. Friends told me not to visit Portland now a day. It is not what it used to be. I am glad i moved out of there.
Yeah well Portland is a bit of a nightmare…
I moved out to Mexico it’s safer
Portland is nightmare
I visited before covid and it was bad bad bad everywhere you looked, I cant imagine how it is now.
Portland never saw a levy that couldn’t pass or when scheduled to end couldn’t be extended. Hundreds of millions of dollars, and actually probably into the billions for Sun schools, parks, libraries, housing, homelessness, art, public schools, public safety, road maintenance and on and on and on. Then diverted money to pet projects and plead poverty for mandatory spending such as public safety and road maintenance. Is Portland any better off for it’s citizens after all of this spending? If you believe it is, then it’s a great place for you to live. For me and my family it wasn’t any longer and we left. I fear that it’s Detroit all over again. Look at Detroit’s population in the 1950’s compared to today.
Oh come on man,everybody loves the great democratic run state of Oregon,it's such a nice clean bum free state.
How is this news to anyone?